Governance and Sustainability Seminar
Tuesday 16th November 2010
Westminster Forum, 5th Floor, Wells Street.
SCIBE Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment
Professor Jeremy Till, SABE, University of Westminster
How does scarcity affect creativity? Human well-being is usually understood to flourish only within conditions of abundance, but can scarcity have positive implications for creative design and human potential? Professor Jeremy Till, Dean of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment (SABE) is heading a ground-breaking £1m project funded by the EU’s HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) Joint Research Programme. Challenging dominant understandings of action and behaviour, this project considers how design-led innovation might be fostered within the limits of scarce resources, to significantly enhance the built environment. This seminar will focus on how we might define and understand scarcity.
Professor Till joined the University of Westminster in 2008. An award winning architect, he was selected to represent Britain at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2006. His extensive list of publications includes a major new book on architectural theory and design, Architecture Depends, selected as book of the week in Times Higher Education. He is the only person to be twice awarded the RIBA President’s Award for Research.
More details about the SCIBE project can be found here: http://www.scibe.eu/
A more detailed profile of Jeremy Till can be found here:
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/schools/architecture/staff/dean-of-school2/till,-professor-jeremy
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