This year’s London Festival of Architecture 2021 adopts the highly topical theme of ‘care’, and exhorts us all to care more. Lucy has been curating Temple Bar Trust’s programme of online talks since June 2020 and our two events in the LFA programme (1-30.6) are: ‘Creating a healthy and child-friendly street for Great Ormond Street
Wed 10 June 2020, Day 44 of the 100 Day Studio: Lucy Bullivant, founder of Urbanista.org, reads from ‘A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the fight for a place to call home’ by Laura Gottesdiener, as part of Bedtime Stories, a nightly series of broadcasts on Instagram curated by Alicia Pivaro for The 100 Day
Together with Urban Vision, Urbanista.org has launched Urban Manifesto, a new webinar series creating a manifesto for a happier, healthier and liveable urban future as the world transitions from the COVID emergency into a new era. For our first episode we explored ‘Streets as Places of Mobility and Interaction’ with London-based architect Dinah Bornat and
‘Making Meridian: Enfield faces its future’ is a new article by editor-in-chief of Urbanista.org Lucy Bullivant, featured on the cover of the 152 page winter issue of New London Quarterly, published with a redesign by Stefano Meroni. In it she explores Enfield Council’s creative leadership impacting its bespoke approach to Meridian Water. Along with
The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) – having announced that ‘Power’ would be the theme of the 2020 festival, updated this in April during the UK pandemic lockdown to confirm that ‘exceptionally, for this year, our festival in June will be a new digital festival with the wider core public programme taking place later in the
Dancing Architects is leading Architectural Body/Urban Choreography, a workshop in Ostuni, Puglia, Italy, running from Tue 16-Sun 21 July 2019, with founder, architect Takako Hasegawa and dancer/choreographer Julie Anne Stanzak (Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch) to explore the cross-pollination of architecture and choreography.
All political parties need to promise to build enough social housing, and that means 100,000 genuinely affordable homes per year for the next 30 years. Future proofing cannot wait. It starts now.
Dwell in possibility’, the next issue of Urbanista.org goes live in Jan 2020 with interviews with London-based Karakusevic Carson Architects and Mexico-City based Francisco Pardo, a review of Mole Architects’ Marmalade Lane co-housing in Cambridge, an essay by Norwegian participatory design specialist, architect Alexander Eriksson Furunes, and features discussing Future Homes for London, a conference staged by the Royal College of Art’s School of Architecture and Riga’s reinvention of its urbanist legacy.
MadCity 2019 – this year’s two day long international happening of urban planning in Riga, the capital city of Latvia, takes place on 30-31 May. As shared mobility expert Angelo Meuleman – a committed MadCity participant – says, the beauty of MadCity is that it is definitely ‘not another conference’.
Serpentine Augmented Architecture, a global open call for creative practitioners to design groundbreaking architectural structure to be developed and experienced in augmented reality (AR) on site at the Serpentine Gallery in summer 2019, has been launched (1 Feb 2019) by the Serpentine Galleries in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture. The deadline for entries is