Talks and Debates Free Online
Tue 25 May : 16:00 -17:30
The Bartlett School of Planning
MPhil/PhD student Alena Agafonova discusses her research into Soviet Russia's highly standardised, state-run approach to home building, and how it…
Tue 25 May : 17:00 -18:30
Centre for Urban & Built Ecologies, LondonMet
Join us for The Living Memory of Cities, a seminar series convened in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and the…
Tue 25 May : 17:30 -19:00
The Happold Foundation
Empathy can be defined as "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another." As designers we have a…
Mon 24 May : 18:30
Royal College of Arts
'Past Forward' K-STUDIO is a design practice rooted in Architecture. We are a creative studio of 55 architects and interior…
Other Events
Sun 23 May : 14:00
The Barbican
A transcendent observation of the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps and its ascetic Carthusian order. A rare, transformative…
Walks and Tours
Sat 22 May : 10:30 -12:30
The London Ambler
DEPARTS Embankment Station (North exit on Villiers Street) Villiers St, London WC2N 6NS Clinging to the banks of the Thames…
Conferences and Festivals Free
16 May - 21 May
Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour
This year, Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour will reconnect, converse and create by celebrating the best in design. London Design Week…
Fri 21 May : 10:00 -11:00
NLA
E-sports started as very niche, very male-orientated, but it has evolved into an industry that now accounts for more than…
Thu 20 May : 18:00 -19:30
UCL Urban Laboratory
'The danger with gentrification is that it breaks up long-held communities and bonds and histories without acknowledging and valuing them.…
Thu 20 May : 10:00 -11:00
The Borough Briefing series provides a platform for local authorities to talk about some of the key issues affecting communities…
Thu 20 May : 13:00 -14:00
Urban Tree Festival
We live in a climate emergency and trees can play an important part in how we tackle rising temperatures, more…
LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science
For urban transport, the early 2020s are going to be an inflection point hard to overestimate: digital connectivity will increasingly…
Thu 20 May : 18:00 -20:00
Join us for our annual Sir Peter Hall Lecture with Ann Forsyth. How might COVID-19 change ideas about the healthy…
Wed 19 May : 13:00 -14:00
The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
In East London, regeneration can have negative consequences for young people – but youth-led design can address them. Regeneration can…
Talks and Debates Online
Wed 19 May : 9:00 -12:45
The Academy of Urbanism
Lessons from recent metro systems A combination of economic and demographic trends along with the impact of Covid-19 are making…
Wed 19 May : 10:00 -11:00
Unveiling the results of an NLA Members Survey of over 180 built environment professionals, this report brings to light the…
NIne Elms x Urban Tree Festival
Join David Shreeve, co-founder of The Conservation Foundation for an overview on the roots of the Great British Elm Experiment…
Wed 19 May : 10:30 -12:30
The walk leads from the 18th century formality of one of London’s best-preserved squares on the Bedford Estate to the…
Tue 18 May : 18:30
Architectural Association
Domesticity from the floor plan, will look at Cierto Estudio's work and methodology focusing on aspects of dwelling design. In…
Tue 18 May : 16:00 -17:30
MPhil/PhD student Clemency Gibbs discusses her research into façadism in London since the 1970s. Abstract This research examines the architectural…
Tue 18 May : 10:00 -11:00
There is an increasing awareness about the environmental and health benefits of urban trees, yet the quality of greenspace around…
Walks and Tours Free Online
Tue 18 May : 15:00 -16:00
The Great Eastern Parks Route proposes a green, tree-rich link that connects various parks and gardens across East London. The…
Tue 18 May : 17:00 -18:30
Westminster Climate Action Network
Westminster Climate Action Network and Manchester Climate Action Group presents... ARCHITECTURE WON’T BE RELEVANT ON A DEAD PLANET! Since the…
Mon 17 May : 19:30
Open City x The World Transformed
In 2020, writer Owen Hatherley published two books about London. One, Red Metropolis was a polemical history of municipal socialism…
Mon 17 May : 18:00 -19:00
More than 5,000 trees are felled every year in London - and most end their lives as firewood. It’s a…
Sat 15 May : 10:00 -12:30
Open City
Join Open House for a socially-distanced photography tour and discover how you can use your camera or phone to create…
Join Open House for a socially-distanced walking tour exploring how public health challenges shaped London’s built environment through the ages…
Fri 14 May : 10:00 -11:00
How is the City of London preparing to emerge from the pandemic? With the disruption brought by the COVID-19 crisis,…
Fri 14 May : 13:00
Dezeen in partnership with Knauf
Battersea Arts Centre is a community theatre that was renovated over the course of 12 years by UK architecture firm…
Fri 14 May : 13:00 -14:00
A live lunchtime talk exploring artist L U C I N E’s takeover of AUAR Lab's House Block in Clapton,…
