Taking Place Seminar Podcast
1) Taking Place - 14 May 2014 - Eyeopener: Geographies of Light and Shadow, Near and Far
John Wylie (University of Exeter) Abstract What can the practice of en plein air landscape drawing bring to cross-disciplinary understandings of spatiality, materiality and self-world relations?...Show More
2) Taking Place - 19 February 2014 - Therapeutic Landscapes: 19th Century
Therapeutic Landscapes: The Use and Design of Gardens and the Wider Landscape by Nineteenth-Century Psychiatric Institutions in England Dr Clare Hickman (Welcome Fellow in Medical History and Huma...Show More
3) Taking Place - 20 May 2013 - (De)constructions of Cosmopolitanism and Identity Among Urban Middle Classes in Africa
Claire Mercer (London School of Economics) and Rachel Spronk (University of Amsterdam)
4) Taking Place - 11 March 2013 - Challenging Conventions of Slum Upgrading: Lessons Learnt from a Study of Upgrade in South Africa
Dr Kamna Patel (Lecturer in Development Administration, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL) Abstract The in situ upgrade of slums is widely considered global best practice in approaches...Show More
5) Taking Place - 25 February 2013 - Living Dangerously: The Politics of Risk in Bogotá, Colombia
Dr Austin Zeiderman (Research Fellow, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science) The majority of the world’s population is now urban, and the future of cities is increasingly bec...Show More
6) Taking Place - 26 November 2012 - Languages of Place in Official and Everyday Politics
Dr Jon Lawrence (University of Cambridge)
7) Taking Place - 12 November 2012 - Engineering Informality: Flyover and Skywalk Construction in Mumbai
Dr Andrew Harris (University College London)
8) Taking Place - 29 October 2012 - Recoding Urban Space through Place Hacking
Dr Bradley Garrett (Researcher in Technological Natures at the University of Oxford)
Taking Place - 29 October 2012 - Recoding Urban Space through Place Hacking
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9) Taking Place - 15 October 2012 - Commitees, Witch Doctors, and the 'Mother-Body': Everyday resistance and politics in the township of Cato Manor, South Africa'
Dr Paula Meth (University of Sheffield)
10) Taking Place - 21 May 2012 - England's Silent Places: Landscape, Photography and Identity Formation
England's Silent Places: Landscape, Photography and Identity Formation Ingrid Pollard (Artist and Photographer)