Dear All,
As part of the 2016 Being Human Festival of the Humanities, the Science Museum are holding an event called 'Concrete Hopes and Fears' on Saturday 19 November 2016, 2pm-5:30pm at the Science Museum Research Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, London, SW7 5HD. The event is aimed at a non-specialist audience and is free to attend.
Summary:
Concrete – friend or foe? Architectural modernists have gloried in concrete’s capacity to enable new structures such as Lubetkin’s cheerful penguin pool at London Zoo or the domineering swagger of Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower. But the totalitarian aesthetic of brutalism-by-concrete has divided opinion in places such as London’s South Bank. Disasters such as that at Ronan Point in 1968, or the Bison system’s failures, have piled unease on top of dislike. This Janus-faced material makes an ideal focus for this year’s Being Human festival. Come along to learn more and pitch into the debate.
Timetable of events:
2pm – 2:15pm
Introduction: Oliver Carpenter, Associate Curator at Science Museum
2:15pm – 2:45pm
Narrated Screening of Film: Tim Boon, Head of Research and Public History at Science Museum
2:45pm – 3:15pm
Fear is in the Detail - The Autopsy of Ronan Point: Francesca Hughes, Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory, Architectural Association, London
3:15pm – 3:30pm *Tea and Coffee Break*
3:30pm – 4pm
Brutalism Redux: Oli Mould, Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway University of London
4pm – 4:30pm
Rheology of Concrete in the Twenty-First Century: Matthew Wells, Director of Techniker Structural Engineering
4:30pm – 4:45pm *Tea and Coffee Break*
4:45pm – 5:30pm
Panel discussion, ‘Concrete Hopes and Fears’: Speakers from the day and special guest Gergely Kovacs, Project leader and founder of the computational design group, Heatherwick Studio, London
Book now for this event on www.beinghumanfestival.org/event/concrete-hopes-and-fears/
For more details on the Being Human Festival see www.beinghumanfestival.org
I look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes,
Oliver Carpenter
Dr Oliver Carpenter
Associate Curator - Infrastructure & Built Environment
Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD
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