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ARCHITECTURE AND CITIZENSHIP


Who are we designing for?
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Date: 13 February 2017
Time: 6.30-8.30pm
Venue: Urban Innovation Centre, 1 Sekforde Street, London, EC1R 0BE 
Speakers: Alastair Parvin, co-founder, WikiHouse Foundation
Finn Williams, public planner, GLA
Euan Mills, ‎Urban Design and Planning Lead, Future Cities Catapult
Nathan Ardaiz, Research Associate, Azuko
Lucia Caistor, Associate, Architecture Sans Frontières, UK
Martin Barry, Director, reSITE


Other speakers to be confirmed. 

MoA’s thematic programming on Architecture and Citizenship explores the relationship between politics and the built environment with the aim of helping architects become active agents of social change. 

In their daily practice, architects and designers work with different types of publics, ranging from private individuals, groups and communities, to corporations or public institutions. Defined and guided by these relationships, the architects’ work both reflects those very publics and actively constructs them by giving shape to their their needs, desires, social status, and aspirations.

What does it mean to design for each of these different types of publics? How do different scales and types of citizenship in turn shape the architect’s work? What is the politics behind designing for individuals and families, rather than entire countries or regions? This talk will bring together seven speakers whose work is closely related to different types of publics, be it as clients or final users. The categories - individual, family, community, city, region, country and international - will point to the wide-ranging impact that designing for each group has within the broader context of a civic society. 
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Debate: does user involvement create better designs?
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Date: 27 February 2017
Time: 6.30 - 8.30pm
Location: Future Cities Catapult
Speakers: Robert Sakula, Partner, Ash Sakula

Other speakers to be confirmed. 


Does participatory design lead to better buildings? How and why do architects benefit from a close collaboration with users during the design process? The third event in our Architecture and Citizenship season takes the format of a debate to understand whether getting the users involved results in better designs.  

On one hand, co-design allows a wide range of people affected by a particular design challenge to make a creative contribution in shaping the solution of a problem. On the other hand, a large number of participants involved might make the design process much more complicated and difficult to manage, often with limited benefits. This talk aims to understand what tools are available to architects to facilitate co-design processes, and what might be the potential obstacles as well as rewards. We will hear from four speakers who will each present their case for a more critical engagement with the users in the design process to understand how participation impacts the current practice in the built environment industry.  
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PAST THEMATIC PROGRAMMING


Design, Dialogue and Democracy
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Date: 30 January 2017
Time: 6.30 - 8.30pm
Venue: The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, WC1E 7BT
Tickets: £15 + VAT
Speakers: Adam Kaasa, Director, Theatrum Mundi, LSE Cities
Maria S. Giudici, Lecturer, Royal College of Art and thr Architectural Assocation


​Other speakers to be confirmed.

This talk is organised in partnership with The Built Environment Trust.

Does citizenship have physicality and to what extent do physical spaces enable active citizenship? How does urban design relate to democracy? How do designed spaces inform negotiations between the public and centres of political power? What role does the design profession play in fostering civic participation?

The first talk in MoA’s The Architecture of Citizenship events season aims to understand what role the built environment plays in mediating the relationship between citizens and the state, setting the stage for further discussions on the physicality of citizenship, that will take place over the coming year.

“Design, Dialogue and Democracy” starts from the premise that urban design is necessarily political, as are the planning decisions that shape the built environment on different scales, from the home to the city. As such, different types of spaces are particularly apt at empowering citizens to make their sentiments public and actively participate in society. From movements like Occupy Wall Street, protests in Tahrir Square or the migrant crisis in Calais, the design of space still remains - implicitly or explicitly - a central protagonist in political processes and creation of a new social order.
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Moving from theory to practice, the aim of this talk is to offer the necessary theoretical framework and terminology for discussing the relationship between citizenship and the built environment. Starting from the evolving connections between public space and public sphere, this talk will tackle the politics of architecture, the symbolic and strategic value of public space, as well as the idea of citizenship as process rather than status, to question whether specific design decisions can help shape a more active citizenship and a more inclusive society.

Building Healthy Communities: Mental Healthcare
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Date: 12 September 2016
Time: 6.30-8.30pm
Location: The Building Centre, 26 Store St, London WC1E 7BT
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Speakers: 
Joe Forster (chair), President, Design in Mental Health Network
Dr Evangelia Chrysikou, Marie Curie Fellow, Space Syntax Lab, the Bartlett, UCL 
Ruairi Reeves, Associate Director, Medical Architecture
Wendy de Silva, Mental Health Lead, IBI Group 
Price: £15 + VAT, concessions £12 + VAT

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This event is organised in partnership with The Building Centre.
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Over the past few decades, an increasing amount of research has highlighted the links between the built environment and mental health. On one hand, the built environment is often seen as a significant source of mental distress, while on the other, thoughtfully designed spaces and places destined for mental health care are central for positive patient outcomes. With the annual cost to society In England of £100 billion, it is important that architects approach the design of spaces for mental health care with necessary theoretical and empirical research on hand. Beyond privacy, natural light, noise reduction, space and better communication, what other key characteristics should architects incorporate in their designs? Taking the needs of both staff and patients as a starting point, this panel discussion will look at how architects can design therapeutic environments that minimise restraint, uphold patient dignity and aid recovery. ​

Building Healthy Communities: Hospitals and Healthcare
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Building Healthy Communities: Hospitals and Healthcare
Date: 6 June 2016
Time: 6:30PM
Location: The Building Centre, 26 Store St, London WC1E 7BT

Speakers:
Christopher Shaw, Senior Director, Medical Architecture
Oliver Marlow, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Studio Tilt
John Cooper, Founding Director, JCA 
Ann-Luoise Ward, Chief Operating Officer, Maggie’s 
Lily Jencks, Founding Director, Lily Jencks Studio
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This event is organised in partnership with The Building Centre.
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Increasingly, we are realising that poorly designed healthcare services and tools can directly affect patients’ health. In fact, recent research has revealed that better design of spaces for health can lead not only to improved patient and staff experience, but also to better clinical outcomes. As we face major global health challenges, we need to start considering design as an integral element and driver of change in healthcare. This panel discussion will explore the ways in which architects and designers are addressing the need for the built environment to provide safe, effective and high-quality places that can adapt to changing care patterns.

Designing for Public Health
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Date: 4 April 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: The Building Centre, 26 Store St, London WC1E 7BT


​Speakers:
Paul Lincoln (Chair), Deputy Chief Executive, Landscape Institute
Lucy Saunders FFPH, Public Health Specialist – Transport & Public Realm, Transport for London and Greater London Authority
Tom Armour, Global Landscape Architecture Leader, Arup
Rachel Toms, Programme Lead, Design Council Cabe
Henk Bouwman, Director, Academy of Urbanism

This event is organised in partnership with The Building Centre.

​Air quality is deteriorating in many of the world’s cities. Nearly two-thirds of people with diabetes live in urban areas. Wealthier lifestyles, prioritising convenience and fast food, has led to obesity issues and urban dwellers have far-higher stress levels than their rural counterparts. With over half of the world’s population living in urban areas, cities have a duty to do a better job of protecting public health. Architects and designers play a critical role in shaping the quality of our environment; they work in collaboration with end users and their needs and ambitions, and they have the power to restore and promote mental and physical health. This panel discussion will reveal ways in which the built environment industry is tackling these issues and where we can improve.

Rethinking the way we live: Custom-build Housing
Building Healthy Communities:
Schools and Education

Date: 20 June 2016
Time: 6:30PM
Location: The Building Centre, 26 Store St, London WC1E 7BT

Speakers:
Nick Mirchandani (chair), Director, Architecture PLB
Edmund Fowles, Partner, Feilden Fowles
David Hills, Founding Director, DSDHA
Dr Sharon Wright, Senior Associate, The Learning Crowd
Jonathan Lazar, Aut--Aut architecture
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This event is organised in partnership with The Building Centre.

Building Healthy Communities is a series of talks that focus on how creative thinking innovative design in particular building typologies are contributing to collective health and wellbeing in communities.
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With pupil numbers set to exceed eight million by 2023, we will need the equivalent of almost 2,000 new schools. This provides us with an opportunity to uphold the view that schools can and should be more than just practical, functional buildings – they need to elevate the aspirations of children, teachers and the wider community. To this end we can redefine what we expect from educational institutions and look at strategies to bring nature into the classroom, or rather take the classroom into nature. Further dissolving the gap between education and the environment, promoting an awareness of health and wellbeing at an early age. Attitudes towards the environment start developing at an early age and — once formed — do not change easily. Children are potential effective agents for promoting environmentally responsible behaviour in others and carrying forward a positive view of sustainability.

Designing for the Refugee Crisis
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Designing for the Refugee Crisis 
Date: 9
May 2016
Time: 6:30PM
Location: The Building Centre, 26 Store St, WC1E 7BT London
Tickets: £15, concessions £12


​Speakers:
Karen McVeigh (chair), senior news reporter, the Guardian
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Uli Schmid, Senior Expert, Humanitarian Action Program, Innovation & Planning Agency Association
Dr. Harriet Harriss, Senior Tutor in Interior Design & Architecture, Royal College of Art
Tom Scott-Smith, Associate Professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Johan Karlsson, Interim Managing Director, Better Shelter

This event is organised in partnership with The Building Centre.

Over the past year the refugee situation across Europe has escalated into a full-blown crisis. Very recently the "Jungle" refugee and migrant camp in Calais - a symbol of Europe's immigration crisis - has started being demolished leaving many displaced. Architects are equipped with the knowledge that can provide a solution to one of the most basic human rights refugees need: shelter. The question is not should the architectural community respond, but how? This panel discussion will shed light on some of the work architects and designers are doing in response to the crisis. 

Rethinking the way we live: Sustainable volume housing
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Date: 21 March 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: The Building Centre, 26 Store St, London WC1E 7BT


​Speakers:
David Orr (chair), Chief Executive, National Housing Federation
Sue Riddlestone OBE, CEO & co-founder, Bioregional
Pete Halsall, Chief Executive, Good Homes Alliance
Richard Lavington, Founding Director, Maccreanor Lavington
James Taylor-Foster, European Editor-at-Large, ArchDaily and Hikaru Nissanke, Founding Director, OMMX

This event is organised in partnership with The Building Centre. 

The country is in the grip of a housing shortage - we currently build half the number of homes we need each year. This panel will discuss the necessity to build in volume but also to build sustainably for future generations. How can we speed up housebuilding whilst ensuring good design, minimise resource use and reduce the environmental impact of development? The panel will discuss sustainable housing from an economic, social and ecological perspective.

Designing for Flood Risk
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Date: 22 February 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: The Building Centre, 26 Store St, London WC1E 7BT

​Speakers:

Chair: Michael Holmes, Chair of the National Custom & Self Build Association.
Alex Ely, Director, Mae
Chris Brown, Chief Executive, Igloo
Alice Grahame, The Guardian and resident of Walter Segal house
Gus Zogolovitch, CEO and founder, Inhabit Homes
Geoff Shearcroft, Director, AOC Architecture 

This event is organised in partnership with The Building Centre. 

Custom-build has been a mainstay of housing markets for decades in countries such as Japan, Australia, Belgium and Germany, where around 60 per cent of new homes constructed annually are now built by the people who will live in them. The UK appetite for custom-build is huge with a ready market of over six million people looking to get involved in a custom-build project, and over two-thirds of people reluctant to buy an off-the-peg volume-built house. However, just 10,000 self and custom built homes were expected to go up in 2015, this panel discussion will debate the reasons why and what the built environment industry can do to encourage growth in custom-build. 

Rethinking the way we live: Co-housing
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​Date: 14 December 2015
​Time: 6.30PM - 8.30PM
Location: The Building Centre, 26 Store St, London WC1E 7BT

Speakers:
Prof. Irena Bauman (chair),  Professor of Sustainable Urbanism, University of Sheffield
​Meredith Bowles, Mole Architects
Maria Brenton, Older Women's CoHousing
Stephen Hill, C20 Future Planners
David Saxby, Architecture 00

As London grapples with the housing crisis and rental and property prices continue to soar, there is an increasing demand for different housing options and greater control over the way we live. This event presents some pioneering co-housing examples both built and in development. Hear architect, resident and campaigner's perspectives which provide alternatives to the status quo.

​This event is organised in partnership with The Building Centre 

Health and Wellbeing Programme
Beyond Sustainability!

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Date: 5 October 2015
Time: 12.30PM - 5.00PM
Location: 
Royal College Of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place , NW1 4LE London

What can we do as individuals and professionals in the built environment to move beyond sustainability as we define it today? Less bad is just not good enough. Organised by Arup Associates in partnership with the International Living Future Institute and Living Building Challenge - UK Collaborative, this event brings together professionals that believe in a better way of designing, producing and operating the world we inhabit. Beyond Sustainability! explores the future of the built environment through a series of presentations and a keynote lecture by Jason McLennan, one of the most influential individuals in the green building movement today and the recipient of the prestigious Buckminster Fuller Prize, as well as the founder and creator of the Living Building Challenge, widely considered the world’s most progressive and stringent green building program.

Health And Wellbeing Programme
Smart Space - Infrastructure for Innovation

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Date: 16 September 2015 
Time: 7.00PM - 8.30PM
Location: The Cube, London

We have entered a new era of high innovation, where we will need to provide people with something more than just space or a place to work. In the United States and UK we are seeing more labs being created, which will host the development of robotics, medtech, artificial intelligence, and neurotechnology. These spaces are making us rethink the design of cities and buildings. Professionals working in built environments such as architects, designers, developers, urban planners and placemakers will play a paramount role in shaping future innovation. After all, it is this industry that shapes and creates buildings, which house the people behind the innovation. In partnership with The Cube, we will discuss Smart Spaces and what is the infrastructure they need to support innovation. 


Talk series

Design of the workplace


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The Psychology of Collaboration
Collaboration is much talked about today, especially when it comes to workplace design. As companies employ more knowledge workers, it is no longer just what you know, but what you do with what you know. Successfully designed collaboration spaces as well as an enabling culture are key to helping this along. With this in mind, Herman Miller commissioned Dr. Nigel Oseland, a psychologist specialising in workplace, to carry out a literature review of the psychology of collaboration and how that might impact workplace design.


Guest Speaker: Dr. Nigel Oseland

Title: Psychology of the workplace
Environmental Psychologist Dr Oseland will present core psychological theories, including evolutionary psychology, that have implications for the design and management of successful workplaces. The presentation supports architects and real estate professionals in advising occupiers on how to enhance the quality of their workplaces to improve the performance of its occupants. In general, current trends in building design do not necessarily consider psychological factors. Whilst new buildings may be space efficient they are unlikely to be as effective as those buildings that do account for basic individual and organisational needs.

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Guest Speaker 2: David Halpern
The Behavioural Insights Team is a unique company. We started life inside No.10 Downing Street as the world’s first government institution dedicated to the application of behavioural sciences. We are now a world-leading social purpose company whose mission is to help organisations in the UK and overseas to apply behavioural insights in support of social purpose goals. The company itself has three owners: the employees, the UK government, and Nesta (the UK's leading innovation charity). Nesta were the winners of a highly competitive process to become the team's join venture partners, and we're delighted to have them on board.

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Personality Preferences for Interaction
Following on from the hugely successful Psychology of Collaboration research carried out by Dr. Nigel Oseland, HM will also be sharing some findings from his most recent piece of research looking at preferences for interaction and linking it back to the Living Office story.


Guest Speaker:
Ziona Strelitz,
Founder Director of ZZA Responsive User Environments
Title: Workplace interaction:  empirical realities; busting industry mantra

Extrovert / introvert?  Hive / club / den / cell? We place great store on workplace interaction, invoking it as a central plank in presenting the case for office transformation to promote business value. But across the paradigms of personality and activity settings, what are the conditions that shape workplace interaction? Drawing on her rich and ongoing corpus of workplace studies and research on third places, Ziona Strelitz, Founder Director of ZZA Responsive User Environments, and author of ‘Buildings that Feel Good’, ‘Energy People Place’ and ‘Why Place Still Matters in the Digital Age', steps back from supply-chain orthodoxies to share key empirical perspectives on contemporary interaction at work.

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Scenarios 2018 
Scenario planning is one way to understand and learn about the changes in the workplace in the future. Through formal research methods, protocols, and tools such as scenario planning, companies are better able to anticipate change, respond creatively towards those emerging user needs and problems, and be better prepared for the future.

Guest Speaker: Bruce Davison, Insityou
Title: Paradigm Paralysis
Companies are spending unnecessary money on real estate, especially in the world’s key cities where prime real estate is expensive and in peak demand.  Despite new workspace trends the truth is that space usage is on the rise and costing upwards of £30,000 per employee for a new build. Workplace is evolving from fixed, assigned seating, which supported traditional departmental structures, to flexible seating environments aimed at project and function driven workforces.   However, transferring the entire onus onto employees to self-organise, drive productivity and innovation, has in fact; created untold anxiety, territorialisation and paralysis. Bruce Davison will present the historical development of the workforce, the workplace, current trends and the potential for technology to change the rules of the game.

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The Living Office
In businesses around the world the workforce is changing. The expectations of workers are changing. How work gets done is changing. The tools of work are changing. The work itself is changing. There is a new landscape of work. This seminar will share ideas on how to manage work, the tools and technologies that enable us, and the places where we come together to do it.

Guest Speaker:
Nick Fletcher,
Managing Director, Harmsen Tilney Shane
Smart Working: trends, issues, opportunities and best practice solutions
Workplace consultant Nick Fletcher will look at the notions of 'tribes' and 'bands' and discuss how organisations are moving from the former - larger, more structured, less flexible groups - to the latter which are commonly smaller, mobile and more fluid and more liable to change. He will explore how this move towards 'bands' impacts on the workplace and the formation of both the physical and virtual working environment. Nick will also describe his firm's approach to gathering evidence as the starting point for using design as a powerful tool for organisational change.

Workshop
​How Digital Design And Architecture Can Create New Business Opportunities ​   

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Hosted by Method
Workshop Testimonial

"Just a quick email to say how nice it was to meet you at the workshop last week and to thank you for organising such a stimulating event. It was one of the most rewarding days I’ve had in quite some time – the speakers were experienced and thought-provoking, and the quality of the administration, hospitality, venue and the other attendees were all very high. Having been involved with organising conferences myself, I know how much thought and hard work it takes to put on something as good as this." - Aaron Lawton, Aaron Lawton Associates

Programme
The Museum of Architecture has created a one-day conference to consider how collaborations between architects and digital designers can be of mutual benefit and create new business opportunities for both.

Structured as a series of workshops, and talks, attendees will be invited to participate by proposing new solutions which employ the best of both disciplines.

Speakers:
Indy Johar, Architecture 00
Anne Frobeen, Samsung Innovation Research Lab
Roger Wade, Boxpark
Alexander Grünsteidl, Method

Symposium
Shubbak Festival: A Window On The Arab World   

Forward Thinking Symposium

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Forward Thinking Symposium:
Discussions on the Future of Architecture in the Arab World Location: RIBA, London
Date: 19 July 2011

Throughout the next 20 years, many of the housing projects, souks, hotels, office buildings, planned cities, and cultural centres in the Arab world will be completed. As the region continues to shift both economically and politically, what will the discussions around architecture in the region be? This talk brings together a broad group of experts to discuss the questions we may be asking in the coming months and years. Topics will include the development of new technologies and materials, how the Internet could shape physical and virtual spaces, and the pursuit of Arab identity in architecture.

Moderator: Tim Makower, Partner, Allies and Morrison Architects and Co-Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, Qatar University with speakers: Ahmed Al-Ali and Farid Esmaeil, Principals, X-Architects; Aidan Chopra, Google; Salmaan Craig, Foster + Partners; Ahmad Humeid, CEO, Syntax; Peter Oborn, Deputy Chairman, Aedas Architects; Dr Aylin Orbasli, Programme Leader, MA International Architectural Regeneration and Development, Oxford Brookes University.

Nous & RIBA Architecture Events at Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture, Presented by the Mayor of London, Sponsored by HSBC

Designing for Flood Risk 
Date: 8 February 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: The Building Centre, 26 Store St, London WC1E 7BT

Speakers:
Paul Lincoln (Chair), Deputy Chief Executive, Landscape Institute
Mary Dhonau OBE, Community Flood Consultant, Know Your Flood Risk Campaign
Robert Barker, Director, Baca Architects
Peter Wilder, Director of Wilder Associates and a BRE Associate
Oli Cunningham, Associate, dRMM
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The recent devastating flooding in the UK was a stark reminder of the need for architects to urgently design for flood risk, especially as wetter winters are predicted in our changing climate and the certainty of more extreme weather events. This panel discussion will explore design responses to flood risk and innovative designs architects are proposing to also consider living with water rather than just defend against it. 

Rethinking the way we live: Housing an ageing population
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Date: 25 January 2016
Time: 6:30pm
Location: The Building Centre, 26 Store St, London WC1E 7BT

Speakers:
Ben Page (Chair), 
Chief Executive of Ipsos Mori
Deane Simpson, Royal Danish Academy of Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen and author of Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Ageing Society
Susanne Clase, White Arkitekter
Tim Riley, RCKa
Fran Balaam, The CASS and Regeneration Team, GLA  

For decades, there have not been enough homes to meet the needs of our growing and ageing population. The number of households in England is projected to increase 10 per cent from 2011 to 2021, but the highest increase is projected to be for households headed by someone between 55 and 64 years old. As life expectancy increases, an urgent national effort is needed to build homes that will meet our changing needs and aspirations as we all grow older. This panel will showcase examples of innovative designs for communities of older people and how housing design can alleviate some of the issues affecting older people.   

MoA Health and Wellbeing Programme
Wellness In the Workplace

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​Date: 3 December 2015
​Time: 6.30PM - 8.30PM
Location: Sto Werkstatt

Speakers:
Jeremy Myerson (chair), Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design, Royal College of Art
Victoria Lockhart, wellbeing and sustainability specialist, Arup Associates
Despina Katsikakis, independent workplace consultant
Trevor Keeling, senior engineer, BuroHappold Engineering
Elina Grigoriou, expert on sustainability, wellbeing and design, Grigoriou Interiors

Sitting is the new smoking! A sedentary lifestyle can lead to such ill-effects as diabetes and heart disease, therefore architects and designers need to rethink how we design the workplace for a healthier workforce. Workplace design today is striving to encourage flexibility, incubation, cross-pollination and co-working to engage employees, promote collaboration, flatten hierarchies, improve productivity and encourage innovation.The panel will discuss the need to ensure wellness in our office environments and offer innovative solutions to better workplace design.

Talk series
Get Involved   

Get involved! -  In conjunction with The Guardian and part of the London Festival of Architecture 2015, Museum of Architecture will showcase community engagement in architecture and placemaking through a series of talks and panel discussions.

In an increasingly competitive global context, London is working hard to remain the city of choice for business – from start ups to established firms. Central to this is creating environments in which people want to live and
work – how can these same people influence the evolution of the city?

We will invite a diverse range organisations to participate. These organisations will discuss what they do, how they work, why they do it and what more can be done to get people involved in their communities - paving ​the way for new business ideas, collaborations and work opportunities.
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Discussion 1: Placemaking and Technology
Argent, 4 Stable Street, King's Cross, London N1C 4AB


Ian Freshwater - Argent
Jonathan Robinson - The Guardian
Niraj Dattani - Spacehive
Carolina Caicedo - The Decorators

Ava Fatah gen Schieck - Digital Interaction, The Bartlett UCL
Moderator: James Pallister

​A number of design agencies are working hard to better understand the needs of residents, workers, tourists and entrepreneurs in order to create more exciting and innovative destinations. Technology companies and other crowd-funding platforms are transforming the way cities are being built and funded and are empowering the people who use the city to make positive changes to their environments.

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Discussion 2: Businesses in Communities and Vacant Buildings
Sto Werkstatt, 7-9 Woodbridge Street, London EC1R 0EX


Ross Bailey -  Appear Here

Emily Berwyn - Meanwhile Space
Simon Pitkeathley - Camden Town Unlimited
Carl Turner - Carl Turner Architects / Pop Brixton
Moderator: Mariana Pestana

The panel will discuss ways in which businesses are getting more involved with the communities and neighbourhoods in which they are based. Organisations are helping to bridge the communication between businesses in communities and community projects, they set exciting precedents for the future of private and public collaboration. Companies are also engaging with the built environment in new ways by creating short term pop-ups in new developments to test audiences and client bases, leading to experimental design projects. These projects are also supported by new businesses who are facilitating the connections between the brands and unused spaces.

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Discussion 3: Public Space and Neighbourhood Streets 
Bennetts Associates Architects, 1 Rawstorne Place, London EC1V 7NL

Giles Charlton - Spacehub
John Edwards - Living Streets
Torange Khonsari - Public Works Group
Jonathan Schifferes - RSA/Create Streets
Moderator: David Walker - Bennetts Associates

Public space is everywhere but there is less recognition and more prescription about what and who it is for. This debate will explore how organisations working in the public realm mediate between policy and good design and how we can work towards creating safe, attractive, enjoyable streets which are pedestrian friendly and lively. These organisations are working to engage large and varied audiences who can influence our built environment's future as the public are more involved in planning and policy decisions, advocating for good, smart design.

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Discussion 4: Well-being and Health in Cities
Arup 8 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BQ, lower ground floor, Emmerson/Shears Room


Ann Marie Aguilar - Arup 
Associates
Dan Hill - Future Cities
Anne Frobeen - Samsung Electronics Europe
Chris Romer-Lee - Studio Octopi / Thames Baths Project
Moderator: Lisa Woo - Design Council

Creating a healthier working population will help solve various city-wide problems from stress on the NHS to combating depression. Well designed buildings and environments have a role to play in this. Arup is undertaking new research in the area and will discuss the new healthy buildings certification - helping to eradicate spaces that people loathe working and living in. Another topic for discussion is more accessible city-wide exercise projects that would create the opportunity for new businesses to start, collaborations to take place, jobs to be created and technology and software to be designed. There is no doubt that health and cities is a new and growing business opportunity and the expert panelists will give the audience insights into what the future may hold in this sector.

Talk
Vertical Urban Factory Curator's Gallery Talk

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A discussion with Nina Rappaport, curator of Vertical Urban Factory and publications director at Yale School of Architecture, and James Pallister, journalist and editor who has worked for Dezeen and The Architects’ Journal and is currently writing a book about contemporary religious architecture for Phaidon, about the architecture and urban issues around urban manufacturing and how the new shift to clean, green and smaller manufacturing methods can provoke new production spaces.


Panel Discussion on New Urban Manufacturing in London at Faraday House
Nina Rappaport - architectural critic and curator, Vertical Urban Factory, New York Dr Ben Todd - Managing Director - Arcola Energy
Dr Manish Tiwari - lecturer at University College London - Mechanical Engineering
Dr Axel Bindel - Research Manager - Energy, Recovery & Low Carbon Powerpacks at High Speed Sustainable Manufacturing Institute


www.verticalurbanfactory.org
www.ninarappaport.com

Public Domain Symposium

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Public Domain Symposium: Public & Civic Spaces in the Arab World Location: RIBA, London
Date: 12 July 2011

Using material drawn from photojournalists, professional photographers, and architectural practices, the exhibition will provide a journey through the public and civic spaces of the Arab world and showcase daily life in the region. The images and films will feature the places where people meet, socialise, shop, exchange ideas, demonstrate, and celebrate; they will include images from the on-going protests and from everyday life in streets, cafes and markets. The exhibition will also explore factors shaping public and civic spaces in the region, such as rapid economic change, a focus on public infrastructure in Arab cities, recent political events, and the use of the Internet.

Contributors include Iwan Baan and Charlie Koolhaas; photojournalists commissioned by news wire Demotix; photographers and filmmakers from the Arab region; and, architecture and urbanism practices. Sponsored by Austin-Smith:Lord and Demotix

Nous & RIBA Architecture Events at Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture, Presented by the Mayor of London, Sponsored by HSBC

Symposium
Alternative Initiatives: Cuba Symposium   

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Alternative Initiatives: Cuba Conference Location: RIBA, London
Date: 8 October 2010

Alternative Initiatives Cuba Conference explored the impact of Cuba's political and economic conditions on its architecture and speculated on the future of Cuban architecture and development. The event was curated in collaboration with Francisco Gonzales de Canales and Nuria Lombardero.

Participants included: Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler, the Havana City Historian, director of the restoration program of Old Havana and its historical center; Ricardo Porro, Architect; Nuria Alvarez Lombardero and Francisco Gonzalez de Canales, Architects and tutors; Dr. Francisco Gomez Diaz, Architect and tutor; Felipe Hernandez, Architect and tutor; Emily Morris, expert on the Cuban economy; Brett Steele, Director of the Architectural Association.


Workshop
Algorithmic Structures Workshop And Exhibition   

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Algorithmic Structures Workshop and Exhibition Location: Shunt, London
Date: 30 September 30 - 4 October 2009

This exhibition was part of a larger event organized by Din-collective and emphasized the creative prowess of the students involved in re-designing London Bridge, London their installations from the Algorithmic Structures Workshop for the space at Shunt. The challenge was transforming 2000m2 of cardboard installations from the Mare street exhibition space into a 15m vault in one of the arches of SHUNT under London bridge. The installations were component based, human scale structures, composed entirely from self-similar, mass produced, cardboard pieces that connected into one whole using an intelligent, rule-based system. Local external factors operated as informing parameters to generate component variation, resulting in an overall structure responsive to its environment. Variations in size, orientation or perforation resulted in varying degrees of light infiltration, view or function.  
Architectural students from schools in London and abroad started the upcoming academic year by joining this four-day Design + Build + Exhibit Competition Workshop during which they were given the unique opportunity to experiment with the unlimited potentialities of this design method. Assisted by tutors that practice and teach at the forefront of the contemporary architectural scene, two selected structures were designed and built for the exhibition. This exhibition was part of the London Design Festival and was led by Kristof Krolla and Jeroen van Ameijde.
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