Changing Practices - Thursday 24 September

The RIBA Research Symposium 2009 turned its attention to the subject of the profession itself at a time when architects have had to look at and question the ways in which they operate. The symposium was convened by Professor Jeremy Till| and Dr Tatjana Schneider|.

Chairs:

• Sunand Prasad, Penoyre and Prasad, RIBA Past President (morning)
• Murray Fraser, University of Westminster (afternoon)

Opening Address:

• Ruth Reed, RIBA President

Keynote:

• Anne Lacaton

 

Session One: The Evolution of Practice 

Simon Pepper - Rise and fall: a long century of changing public sector practice

 

 

Tatjana Schneider - What architects also do: examples from an expanded field of spatial production

 

 

Albena Yaneva - Reconnecting practice and meaning

 

 

Session Two: Organisation of Practice

Jim Saker - Adaptable futures - is it the future?

 

 

Keith Bradley - Three decades of FCBS: a confederation of studios

 

 

Harriet Harriss - The transposition of architectural knowledge

 

 

Session Three - Ideology of Practice

Jonathan Charley - Telling it as it is

 

 

Liza Fior - Brief disobedience  

Stephen Hill - Are architects smarter than slime mould?"

 

 

Session Four - Future of Practice

Christian Derix - Transmission of design knowledge through simulation

 

 

Robert Webb - The architecture of energy

 

 

Indy Johar - Community generative urbanism - opportunities and limits

 

 

Jeremy Till  - Architecture is not Architecture is not architecture

 

 

Online Coverage

Online coverage of the symposium is available on RIBA Blogs|. Below you can watch a specially commissioned video Telling It As It Is by Dr Jonathan Charley, which was one of the afternoon's presentations.

 

 

For more information please email research@inst.riba.org|, or call 020 7307 3749.

Changing Practices was supported by:

 

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