{"id":5954,"date":"2017-03-30T14:11:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2017-03-30T14:11:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:11:01","slug":"future-cities-6-marvellous-avatar-conference-advanced-virtual-technological-architecture-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/2017\/03\/30\/future-cities-6-marvellous-avatar-conference-advanced-virtual-technological-architecture-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Cities 6: The Marvellous [An AVATAR Conference]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong>Friday 21st<\/sup> April 2017
\n<\/strong>10.30am \u2013 5pm
\n<\/strong>Location: The Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre
\n<\/strong>10 Stockwell Street,\u00a0Greenwich, London SE10 9BD<\/p>\n

5pm \u2013 Drinks reception and Future Cities 6 Exhibition Private View
\n<\/strong>(Location: Project Space)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keynote Speaker:
\nMichael Hansmeyer<\/p>\n

Neil Spiller
\nUniversity of Greenwich<\/p>\n

Dagmar Motycka Weston
\nUniversity of Edinburgh<\/p>\n

Shaun Murray
\nUniversity of Greenwich<\/p>\n

Mark Morris
\nArchitectural Association<\/p>\n

Nic Clear
\nUniversity of Greenwich<\/p>\n

You+Pea
\n[Sandra Youkhana + Luke Caspar Pearson]
\nBartlett School of Architecture<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us not mince words: the marvellous is always beautiful, anything marvellous is beautiful, in fact only the marvellous is beautiful.\u201d
\n\u2014 Andr\u00e9 Breton, \u2018Manifesto of Surrealism\u2019 (1924)<\/p>\n

Future Cities 6<\/em> will be the sixth AVATAR (Advanced Virtual And Technological Architecture Research) conference hosted by the Department of Architecture and Landscape held at the University of Greenwich. It builds on the previous success of Future Cities<\/em>, Future Cities 2<\/em>, 3, 4, 5 events \u2013 that have been international, cross-industry, multi-disciplinary event themed around pressing architectural issues related to the challenges faced by megacities, the architectural discipline and pedagogical challenges in an increasingly technologically advanced, yet resource-constrained world. This year the theme of the conference will centre on The Marvellous <\/em>and asks what creative opportunities architectural design in the twenty-first century offers and how it is possible to work with such tensions. It also raises questions about how we may deal with the nature of ecology, urban environments and an increasing global society \u2013 all composed of many different, often contradictory bodies.<\/p>\n

Accompanying the conference is an exhibition in the Stockwell Street Project Space featuring works by five of the participants. Keynote speaker Michael Hansmeyer is exhibiting prints of his dazzling 3D \u2018Digital Grotesques\u2019 that are currently part of the \u2018Printing the World\u2019 exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Hansmeyer is also exhibiting a video specially commissioned for the Pompidou show. Young London based architectural design practice You+Pea (Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson) are showing their highly exuberant \u2018Tokyo Backup City\u2019 project. Dr Shaun Murray is showing some of the extraordinary drawings that were recently part of an exhibition at the Lightroom Gallery at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada. Professor Neil Spiller will be exhibiting more staggering works from the \u2018Communicating Vessels\u2019 project and Nic Clear will be showing a series of new works, \u2018Dreamspaces\u2019, studies for his Chthonopolis Project that will shortly be featured at the \u2018The Factory\u2019 gallery, London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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