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​​ENGAGE: Intangible Practices, Relationships and Means
​of Engagement in Architecture
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Date: 8 June 2018
Time: 11:30am - 6:30pm
Location: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 12 Carlton House, St. James's,
London SW1Y 5AH
Free and open to the public

​#EngageLFA

One day conference curated by the Museum of Architecture and Melodie Leung, Zaha Hadid Architects.
Supported by Finsa.

This conference will consider the means of engagement with which architects navigate personal and professional relationships within the industry, and with which they engage the process of shaping the built environment to maintain relevance in a continually changing society. By harnessing these means of engagement, we evolve and substantiate an understanding of our individual and collective identities as they challenge us to consciously enact and affect change. 

Speakers:
Pooja Agrawal, Co-Founder, Public Practice
Dr Beatrice De Carli, Associate, Architecture Sans Frontiers
Previtha Kunjuraman, General Counsel, Zaha Hadid Architects
Melodie Leung, Senior Associate, Zaha Hadid Architects
Cristina Diaz Moreno, Founder, Amid.Cero9
Elsie Owusu, OBE, Elsie Owusu Architects
Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
​Suzanne Trocmé,  Author, Designer, and Curator
Sarah Wigglesworth, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Berta Willisch, Vice President of Development, Avery Hall Investments
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Schedule:

11:30-12 Conference Registration

12 - 12.30 - Welcome and Finsa International Award for Students of Architecture and Design Awards 

12.30 - 13.30 - Panel 1 - EMPATHY AND EGO
Speakers: Cristina Diaz Moreno, Dr Simone Schnall, Sarah Wigglesworth
Chair: Suzanne Trocmé 

As an industry, how can we better understand and provide for the people we are designing for? As a community, how can we encourage an inclusive and caring approach towards our built environment? As professionals, what is the value in having Empathy and Ego within a collaborative design process?

13.30 - 14.30 - Lunch 

14.30 - 15.30 - Panel 2 - EMPOWERMENT
Speakers: Dr Beatrice De Carli, Previtha Kunjuraman, Berta Willisch
Chair: Pooja Agrawal 

Increasingly diverse ways of thinking continue to evolve, inform and shape the cultural and societal landscape, requiring an equally responsive industry to accommodate and empower a wide spectrum of distinct and individual ways of life and perspectives. As an industry, are we empowering ourselves for change or resisting it? As a community, how can we strengthen singular voices and not lose site of the full spectrum?

15.30 - 16.00 - Coffee break

16.00 - 17.00 - Panel 3 - CONFRONTATION AND COOPERATION
Speakers: Elsie Owusu in conversation with Melodie Leung

The built environment is based upon compliance and cooperation within a set of codes in relation to safety, social convention and policy. Without challenging these norms, without questioning a hardened set of assumptions and standards, we lose the ability to adapt, react, learn and innovate. How do we ensure our role in upholding principles and encouraging originality today and in the future?

17.00 - 18.30 - Drinks reception

Lunch and refreshments will be served. 
​Limited tickets subject to availability. 

​Please note that this event will be recorded and live-streamed on Facebook. 

Book tickets here

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