Lectures associated with The Geddes Institute‘s The City as Thinking Machine programme.
Accompanying the Exhibition in the Lamb Gallery is a programme of three evening events, the second of which takes place this Wednesday:
Activism in the Built Environment: Media
Wednesday 18 November 2015, 6pm in the D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee
This double bill should be of interest to architects planners lawyers psychologists, artists and other agitators, anyone interested in the city as the arena in which our social political and legal relations are played out and inscribed in our collective memory.
Mike Small – Geddes and the 5th Estate: Publishing, Citizenship and Cultural Insurgency
Mike Small is the editor of Bella Caledonia, a columnist for the Guardian and a lecturer in Food Citizenship as part of the UNESCO Chair of Sustainable Development and Territory Management at the University of Torino. He founded the Fife Diet local eating experiment which aims to re-localise food production and distribution in response to globalisation and climate change. He worked with the anarchist ecologist Murray Bookchin. He has published widely on Geddes. His lecture will put Geddes’ civics in the context of the contemporary outlier press.
Paul Guzzardo – A Septic Turn in the Space of Appearance: A Brief for the City with Elites in Decline
Paul Guzzardo is a Fellow at the Geddes Institute for Urban Research. He is a media activist, designer, and lawyer based in St Louis and Buenos Aires. He maps the devolving state of the American public sphere. He has published papers in Urban Design Journal and AD: architectural design, and co-authored with Michael Sorkin and Mario Correa Displaced: Llonch+Vidalle Architecture. His installations and theatre pieces have been exhibited and performed the US and the UK. His lecture will focus on the role of digital media in collective consciousness.
The lectures will be followed by questions and answers from the audience. The questions and answers will be followed by a wine reception in the Exhibition in the Lamb Gallery.
The event will be recorded and posted on the Geddes Institute website.
The event is free and everyone is welcome.
This event is sponsored by the Geddes Institute at the University of Dundee and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/city/
Poster to display Geddes Event Poster Media 18 Nov 15