The Bartlett CRUNCH Series – Spring 2024
12 January 2024
The Bartlett's flagship seminar series returns with a line-up of renowned speakers who will explore global challenges in the built environment.Ìý
CRUNCH is The Bartlett’s new research-driven and practice-led seminar series, curated by the school’s Co-Directors of Public Programming, Albert Brenchat-Aguilar and Déborah López Lobato.Ìý
This spring, the school is delighted to welcome globally renowned experts and industry leaders to share their unique insights, exploring, interrogating and challenging the built environment through a variety of social, political, ecological and economic lenses.Ìý
Each seminar will delve into the theme for this year’s CRUNCH series, ‘Resource’, responding to urgent global challenges including the cost-of-living crisis which affects people’s access to housing, food and energy resources, as well as mental health and wellbeing. A drinks reception will follow each event.
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25 JanuaryÌý
Transcalar Architecture
Speaker: Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation)Ìý
Respondent: Guang Yu Ren (The Bartlett) Ìý
Chair: Amy KulperÌý
01 FebruaryÌý
Agents for Participation
Speakers: Carles Baiges Camprubà (Lacol), Amica Dall (Assemble), Jan Kattein (Jan Kattein Architects) Ìý
Chair: Claire McAndrew Ìý
08 FebruaryÌý
Resourcing Anatomies
Speakers: Igor Bragado andÌýMiles Gertler (Common Accounts), Dream Chittmittrapap (Xcessive Aesthetics) and Parma Ham (Serpentine Galleries)Ìý
Chair: Daniel Ovalle Costal
22 FebruaryÌý
“unknown, unknownâ€
Speaker: Mabel O Wilson (Columbia University)Ìý
¸é±ð²õ±è´Ç²Ô»å±ð²Ô³Ù²õ:ÌýPhD students Sarah Akigbogun, Kirti Durelle and Feysa PoetryÌý
Chair: Stamatis Zografos
29 FebruaryÌý
Liquid Resistance in the Black Atlantic
Speakers: Imani Jacqueline Brown (Independent artist) and Dele Adeyemo (Royal College of Art)Ìý
Chair: Peg RawesÌý
21 MarchÌý
Collective Construction: From Housing to RevolutionÌý
Speakers: Silke Kapp (Federal University of Minas Gerais), João Marcos de Almeida Lopes (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
Respondent:ÌýAnurag Verma (Rural Urban Synthesis Society)Ìý
Chair: Megha Chand InglisÌý
All events will take place from 18:30 GMT in Room G.12, The Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street, London unless otherwise stated.
Please note that events are first-come, first-seated and have limited capacity.
Image: Reggio School, Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN). Photograph by José Hevia Blach. © OFFPOLINNÌý