2020/21 Lecture Archive

Mental health and the Built Environment
Five online sessions of guest talks culminating in a round table discussion will focus on the complex and multi-faceted connections between mental health and the built environment.

12th November 2020
Neil Pinder: POWER

Dr Burçak Özlüdil
Madness and Architecture: An Archaeology of Lunatic Asylums

23rd November 2020
Anna Page: Secular Retreat, Peter Zumthor: The Process of Making

Professor Matthew Smith
Social Psychiatry and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA 1939-1980

30th November 2020
Stephanie Imbeau: Procession

3rd December 2020
Karen Flatt: Nurture and Nature – Approaches to Mental Health Design

10th December 2020
Stacey Charlesworth & Chris Pickup: Architecture and heritage for mental health in the community

16th December 2020
David Rapp: ‘Elements‘ Screening and Q&A

Round Table
Mental health for all: the role of architecture, design and place

7th January 2021
David Nixon: The International Space Station

11th February 2021
David Lomax: How CLT Can Save The World

18th February 2021
UrbanistasNW: Where did everybody go?

22nd February 2021
Anna Page: The Swiss Genossenschaft: Cooperative Housing

25th February 2021
Dr Joe Jack Williams: The hidden carbon of building – Embodied Carbon

4th March 2021
Lesley Lokko: Sacred Cows

10th March 2021
Richard Koeck: History and Future of Immersive Experiences

11th March 2021
Danni Kerr: Your Name's not on the List: The Failure of Space as Social Mediator

18th March 2021
Martin Prince-Parrot: Park-onomics: The Value of Healthy Places

15th April 2021
Future Architects Front: Grassroots Activism in Architecture

6th May 2021
Ali Mangera: Architecture, Culture & Identity in a Globalised World

13th May 2021
Addressing EDI Issues in Architectural Education at the LSA symposium

20th May 2021
Stephen Lawrence Day 2021: A panel discussion looking at the realities of being Black in the profession and exploring why it is so significant that we lost a future Black architect when Stephen was murdered.