15th July – 2nd September 2017 Visit the Peninsula Arts Gallery and KARST and view artwork from new, up and coming creative talent alongside nationally and internationally significant artists at the Plymouth Contemporary. An open submission exhibition, it received more than 800 submissions from 26 countries and includes moving image, fine art, photography, architecture and… Continue reading Plymouth Contemporary 2017
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15 February 2017: REF workshop for Architecture, Built Environment and Planning researchers
Room 416, Babbage Building, 3pm Professor Richard Coyne from Edinburgh University will be holding a REF workshop for researchers in Architecture, Built Environment and Planning (Unit of Assessment 16). Professor Coyne’s research examines the relationship between architecture, technology, design, space, and contemporary cultural theories. He has published nine books on digital and philosophical themes. The most… Continue reading 15 February 2017: REF workshop for Architecture, Built Environment and Planning researchers
Neighbourhood Regeneration in China
Robert Brown, Professor in Architecture, and 20 final-year masters students have just returned from Macau, China, after working on a live project to regenerate a local neighbourhood. In collaboration with students and staff from City University of Macau and St Joseph’s University, the team is analysing and developing strategic proposals for the regeneration in the… Continue reading Neighbourhood Regeneration in China
First ResM completion for Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Plymouth University
The Arts Institute is pleased to announce that Alex Lorimer has completed the first ResM (Research Masters) in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Plymouth University. The thesis title for Alex’s ResM in Architecture was ‘Mass-participation Architecture: Social Media & the Decentralisation of Architectural Agency as a Commercial Imperative’. His Director of Studies was Dr… Continue reading First ResM completion for Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Plymouth University
Professor Robert Brown in China
Professor Robert Brown, Head of Architecture at Plymouth University, recently visited Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China, as an invited professor to deliver several guest lectures. During his visit he met with the directors of the Yuantou Zhu Cultural Garden on Lake Taihu, and advised on the economic regeneration of the gardens. He also contributed an invited article on… Continue reading Professor Robert Brown in China
28 April 2016: BODY, SPACE, MEMORY (& A LITTLE BIT OF SUSHI) – a public lecture
Thursday 28 April 2016, 6-8 pm. at the Plymouth School of Creative Arts, 22 Millbay Road Millbay, Plymouth PL1 3EG FREE – all welcome. Book your place via the Eventbrite webpage. This lecture by Professor Bob Brown is last in the ‘Remember This?’ public lecture series from The Arts Institute at Plymouth University. The series, by members of the Arts and… Continue reading 28 April 2016: BODY, SPACE, MEMORY (& A LITTLE BIT OF SUSHI) – a public lecture
Feature: “The right to a parking space: the spatial state of marginality”
BY SANA MURRANI Have you ever felt that your right to a parking space has been violated when another driver decides to drive the wrong way down a one-way lane and occupies it before you can get there yourself? If yes, then read on. When it happens to me, I feel like doing this – but… Continue reading Feature: “The right to a parking space: the spatial state of marginality”
Feature: “Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World”
BY KATHARINE S. WILLIS The approach and focus of my book, Netspaces, published last year, is on understanding and explaining the way that our increasingly networked world impacts on the legibility of cities; that is, how we experience and inhabit urban space. It reflects on the nature of the spatial effects of the networked and mediated world – from mobile phones… Continue reading Feature: “Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World”
‘Whose right to a smart city?’: a new AHRC-funded research network
The Arts Institute is delighted to announce that Associate Professor Katharine S. Willis, who is based in School of Architecture, Design and Environment, has been awarded an AHRC International Research Network Grant for a project on ‘Whose Right to the Smart City?’ which will run for two years from February 2016 – January 2018. The network will critically… Continue reading ‘Whose right to a smart city?’: a new AHRC-funded research network