Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Friday, October 16, 2015

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.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Wick Session #12: Informal & In-situ


This talk will be about recent work done with students in a former industrial / warehouse part of Johannesberg which has over a number of years been occupied and turned into living accommodation via 'informal processes'. For those interested in informal urbanism and the kinds if issues and difficulties it raises for architectural agency and education, the talk will be extremely interesting. 

more info at http://wicksessions.net/