08.24.2018 - By Royal Academy of Arts
Part 1/3 of our 'Does identity matter?' series:
Evening Standard architecture critic Rob Bevan chairs a panel of experts exploring how a city’s identity can be pulled apart through various architectural and spatial interventions – looking at examples ranging from Tel Aviv's Shapira and Neve Sha'anan neighbourhoods to the former Ford factory in Dagenham.
Speakers:
- Verity Jane Keefe (visual artist, working predominantly within the public realm)
- Dr Clare Melhuish (Director, UCL Urban Laboratory; an anthropologist specialising in architecture and the built environment)
- Maya Ober (founding editor, Depatriarchise Design, a practice-led research platform that examines the complicity of design in the reproduction of oppressive systems; scientific assistant, Institute of Industrial Design, HGK FHNW Basel)
- Rhiannon Williams (poet, MA Narrative Environments, Central St Martins)
- Rob Bevan (chair) – architecture critic at the Evening Standard, has written widely on identity, destruction and the city
This event was organised in partnership with the London Festival of Architecture.