Mindfulness Pods by Oyler Wu Collaborative

How do you design a public space for a private activity? That was the problem posed to the architects at Oyler Wu Collaborative recently byHeadspace, a five-year-old startup dedicated to creating a platform for mindfulness principles.

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Body Building Workshop

For PLAY week, a week of diverse workshops meant to inaugurate the newly renovated studio spaces at University of Westminster, BAIA tutors teamed up with David Scott and Ed Lancaster of the fabLAB to produce 'body agent' figures.  The body agents were conceived, built and installed by groups of Interior Architecture and Architecture students to question, surprise and inspire ideas about occupation and use of the new space.

Funambulist Magazine Launch 2nd November

The Westminster Law & Theory Lab kindly invites you to

the London Launch of The Funambulist Magazine: Politics of Space and Bodies

on Monday, 2nd of November, at 7pm

at The Pavilion, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish St, W1W 6UW

Presentations of her article for the third issue by Reina Lewis, University of the Arts, on Islamic Fashion

Presentation of the first three issues by Leopold Lambert 

Reina Lewis is professor of Cultural Studies at London College of Fashion, and the author of Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures (Duke University Press, 2015)

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is the Director of the Westminster Law and Theory Lab and the author of Spatial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere (Routeledge, 2014)

Leopold Lambert is the founder and editor of The Funambulist Magazine and the author of Weaponized Architecture (dpr-barcelona, 2012) 

The Funambulist Magazine is a bimestrial publication about the political relationships of the designed environment with the bodies. It operates alongside a blog and a podcast (Archipelago) that both share the same editorial line. 

List of the first four issues:

- 01 September 2015: Militarized Cities

- 02 November 2015: Suburban Geographies

- 03 January 2016: Clothing Politics

- 04 March 2016: Carceral Environments 

Followed by drinks reception

The event is free but places are strictly limited.

Please RSVP via https://www.eventbrite.com/e/london-launch-of-the-funambulist-magazine-politics-of-space-and-bodies-tickets-19004492950

'Corporeality, objects, and other stuff' at Fold Gallery 5th June-11th July

"FOLD is pleased to present Corporeality, Objects and Other Stuff a group show consisting of painting and sculpture. Each artist in this show approaches the material and physical matter of their work using a combination of sophisticated visual playfulness, and a range of carefully considered responses to modernism and abstraction."

FOLD is within walking distance of the studio:

158 New Cavendish St

London W1W 6YW

Click here for a map

more here.