IAAC Lecture Series – Lindsay Bremner
Date: Thursday, April 7th
Time: 18:00 CEST
Title: Monsoon as Method
Event: “Design for Biocities” 9th Advanced Architecture Contest
Location: Online Zoom
Free registration below!
This lecture is part of the preparation for the global online competition “Design for Biocities.” This is the 9th edition of the Advanced Architecture Contest, this time focused on rethinking our human habitats following the rules of natural systems, promoting the transition from Cities to Biocities. You can register for the competition here.
Lindsay Bremner
Dr. Lindsay Bremner is a research architect and educator at the University of Westminster in London where she is Director of Research in the School of Architecture and Cities. She recently (2016-2021) held European Research Council grant no. 679873 for Monsoon Assemblages, a project exploring three Bay of Bengal cities – Chennai, Dhaka and Yangon, as monsoonal assemblages are being disrupted and transformed by globalisation and climate change. She holds a B.Arch from the University of Cape Town and an M.Arch and DSc.Arch from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Lecture Abstract:
This presentation arises out of the work of Monsoon Assemblages, a research project funded by the European Research Council from 2016-2021. The presentation will think through what it means to reframe spatial research around the monsoon, a weather system that envelopes the globe, and to approach cities as monsoon assemblages or weather worlds. It will thus challenge ways of thinking of cities and climate or society and nature as separate entities stacked up against one another, and instead explore the multiple ways they are entangled and co produced.