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ACT Guest Seminar 7th June 2023

Date: 07/06/2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Lenton Firs House, Room B38
Description: Over the last decade, the precarity of refugees and temporary migrants and its associated ambiguities is an increasing focus of scholarly inquiry and policy debate. In particular, the Syrian conflict since 2011 has led to dramatic refugee crises especially in terms of the number of people displaced into neighbouring countries, including Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, with Turkey hosting the largest refugee population in the world.

Date: 03/05/2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: As cities reach for the skies, so do our urban spaces. This research focusses on the Asian symptom of high density, high rise urban environments and the layered urban spaces, particularly within Singapore.

Date: 05/04/2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: This presentation will present the overview and progress of a thesis on the soft pneumatic adaptive system. Soft pneumatic adaptive system (SPAS) is the term used in this thesis to cover any building system that could be adapted to specific needs by the actuating flexible pneumatic chamber

Date: 02/11/2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B5 Marmont
Description: The ACT Research Group at the University of Nottingham invite you to join them for their seminar. This presentation considers Pasmore's SW Area housing schemes in detail, and argues that – despite subsequent dilution of its architectural language - its urban legacy is quietly radical, confronting prevailing wisdoms of streetscape and defensible space, and offering a still-relevant, alternative generosity in respect of public realm. The presenter, Alison Davies is an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Nottingham, where she runs architectural design studio unit 5A.

Date: 30/11/2022 (14:00-17:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: Arthur Piper is an award-winning writer and editor. His journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications in the UK, Europe and the US, including The Times, The Telegraph, and The Daily Mail. This afternoon workshop provides some core strategies and ideas to help you cut through the confusion. The workshop will look at using appropriate vocabulary and sentences, pacing and structure between paragraphs, and invites writers to bring their own writing to work on and discuss. It will also suggest a range of helpful resources.

Date: 02/08/2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: The ACT Research Group at the University of Nottingham are hosting a seminar which will be delivered by Professor Kiyoko Kanki. Kiyoko KANKI, born in 1966 in Osaka, is a Professor at the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University. She graduated from her masters course from the Graduate School of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University and received her Dr.Eng from Kyoto University, in 1997. Her seminar is about the cultural landscapes in the city of Kyoto, Japan.

Date: 04/05/2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: ACT Research Group at the University of Nottingham hosted a seminar that was delivered by Laura Hanks. Laura Hanks is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham, where she teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. She spoke about her new book 'New Museum Design'.

Date: 06/04/2022 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: The ACT Research Group from the University of Nottingham kindly invite you to their seminar with guest speaker, PhD students, Hatice Sule Ozer and Xijing Chen. In this seminar, discussions centre around the study which shows that Musician House Museums could teach how they survive with unique struggles in the museum world and its effective uses of interpretations for blind people.

Date: 16/03/2022 (11:00-13:00)
Location:: Marmont Centre
Description: The ACT Research Group from the University of Nottingham kindly invite you to their seminar with guest speaker, David Ames, Executive Director, Stewardship and Development, Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation. In this seminar, the story of Letchworth from its inception to today will be explored. This will include a discussion on how we ensure Letchworth continues a great place to live, to improve live chances for people and to provide people with a healthy environment are our objectives and the modern challenges of meeting Letchworth's growth requirements, applying a modern interpretation of these values and design principles.

Date: 01/12/2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: The ACT Research Group from the University of Nottingham kindly invite you to their seminar with guest speaker, Dr Richard Hayes. In this talk, architectural historian Richard W. Hayes focuses on three of Moore's eight houses to delineate a portrayal of the designer. As experimental works, the houses evince Moore's interest in the role of memory, the importance of the sensing body, and contrasts between high art and pop culture.

Date: 03/11/2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: The ACT Research Group from the University of Nottingham are hosting a seminar from guest speaker, Dr Nader El-Bizri. Nader El-Bizri is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in Intellectual History at Durham University and a Professor of Civilization Studies and Philosophy at the American University of Beirut. This talk focuses on the confluences of the architectural-pictorial arts with the optical-mathematical sciences within the Perspectiva traditions that unfolded in the European milieu from the High Middle ages and up to the early-modern epoch, and passing by the Italian Renaissance.

Date: 06/10/2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: The ACT Research Group warmly invite you to attend their Wednesday seminar with guest speaker, Dr Arthur Piper. Arthur Piper is an award-winning writer and editor. His journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications in the UK, Europe and the US, including The Times, The Telegraph, and The Daily Mail.

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