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The Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA) is pleased to announce its spring 2022 program of public events.
Frictions public lectures
Frictions, the ESALA Public Lecture Series 2021–22, situates architecture, landscape architecture, and related fields at the intersection of environmental, political, and social crises. Frictions highlights ESALA’s ethos of critical and creative engagement with the social and ecological urgencies of our time. This programme of events contributes to ongoing debates in research, practice, and pedagogy by celebrating a diversity of voices and a multiplicity of approaches.
Speakers include: Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck (AJDVIV), Brady Burroughs (KTH Stockholm), Gaspard Geerts and Arne Vande Capelle (Rotor), Annmarie Adams (McGill University), Anke Boehme (Public Practice), Alison Killing (Killing Architects). Find out more and book your place here.
Landscape seminars
This series explores a range of landscape-related themes, from land imaginaries, landscape design, research by design at the landscape scale, nature in the city, environmental and social resilience, climate change, food production, cartographic time, landscape and health, rural and peri-urban development, environmental humanities, cultural landscapes, to other fields of research related to the development of more sustainable environments.
Speakers include: Tiago Torres Campos (RISD), The Landscape Studio, Maria Filomena Molder (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Mat White (University of Vienna), Luis Callejas (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Teresa Moller (Teresa Moller y Asociados). Find out more and book your place here.
Architectural history and theory seminars
ESALA’s Architectural History and Theory Seminars present new research that engages with pressing questions in the field. Embracing a broad spectrum of topics and concerns, this series is a platform that supports ongoing conversations about the practice of architectural history and theory today.
Speakers include: Ximena Gómez (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Peter Clericuzio (University of Edinburgh), Mark Laird (University of Toronto), Zeynep Çelik Alexander (Columbia University), Tara Dudley (University of Texas at Austin), Charles L. Davis II (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Nancy S. Steinhardt (University of Pennsylvania), Alistair Fair (University of Edinburgh). Find out more and book your place here.
All events are free and open to the public.
