Green Economics Conference: Oxford University
Scarce Pickings
Think I am glad not to be in Venice. Would be endlessly grumpy at what the pictures are suggesting: namely, refined… https://t.co/TGTSoL9wkY
Scarce Pickings
Architecture Depends/Spatial Ethics. Video of the lecture is here.
Lecture at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, that runs through the structure and argument of our book of the same title. The link is to the video, with my lecture on first.
The Expanding Field: Architecture Beyond the Object.
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
A short paper for the Journal of Architectural Education which specifically links issues of scarcity with notions of agency
First of two articles setting out the preliminary argument for the book, Flexible Housing. Apparently one of arq’s top downloads.
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
My closing speech at the main conference for What's the Point of Art School, a series of events organised by Central Saint Martins. The video of the speech, which was well-recieved, is here. Other talks, including brilliance from Johnny Vegas, are here. There was a good write up of the day in the Guardian.
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
Scarcity Scares. Video here.
The article when I found my voice. Stories, the everyday and a sprinkling of theory.
A large European funded research project for which I am the project leader. Looking at the way the production of the built environment is affected under conditions of scarcity. In partnership with TU Vienna and Oslo School of Architecture, and working with Deljana Iossifova and Jon Goodbun at the University of Westminster and the SEED Foundation. A range of books, exhibitions and events will come out of it; visit the website for early outcomes.
"Beyond the Fountainhead" Lecture at the fantastic Studio X, a venture of Columbia's GSAAD. Video here
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
Co-authored with Jon Goodbun, Michael Klein and Andreas Rumpfhuber. The main outcome of the Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment project. At the beginning of this project it became clear that there was no contemporary theory of scarcity that addressed the current conditions, so this book sets out to fill that gap, and then relate that theory to design. It is a short (15,000 words) book, and good value.