Events
Manchester Urban Institute runs a wide variety of different events and activities, and collaborates with a range of local, national and global partners.
Upcoming events
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isonometric and Oblique Drawings" by Dr. Ray Lucas
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isonometric and Oblique Drawings" by Dr. Ray Lucas
Urban platforms and the future city: Transformations in infrastructure, governance, knowledge, and everyday life
Digital platforms like Amazon, Facebook, and Google are transforming how we shop, connect, and organise information. But we are also witnessing a profusion of platforms that directly reshape broad dimensions of urban life, from built environments and infrastructure systems to environmental monitoring and civic engagement. This invitation only..
Planetary Urbanization and Architectural Research
Research Seminar hosted by the Manchester Architecture Research Group and the Manchester Urban Institute, University of Manchester. (Flyer/poster in the right sidebar.) Speakers: Christian Schmid (ETH Zurich), Pushpa Arabindoo (University College London), Alvaro Sevilla Buitrago (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Lukasz Stanek (University..
GDI Lecture Series: Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa with Franklin Obeng-Odoom
The Global Development Institute is pleased to host Associate Professor Franklin Obeng-Odoom as part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa While it is intrinsically important to explain and, ultimately, try to address social stratification in Africa, these aspirations have not ye..
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Do Daycare Centres Offer an Effective Solution to Challenges Faced by Older People Living in Dalian, China?" by Dr. Alan Lewis & Wenting Yu
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Do Daycare Centres Offer an Effective Solution to Challenges Faced by Older People Living in Dalian, China?" by Dr. Alan Lewis & Wenting Yu
Olivia Casagrande (Manchester) 'Manchas y parches: (Un)making the indigenous city through performance and critical mapping in Santiago, Chile'
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar. Venue: Sam Alex A215
AHRA PhD Student Symposium
The AHRA Research Student Symposium 2019 takes as its starting point a broad and prolonged transition occurring in architectural research during the past decade. New and interdisciplinary approaches emerge as a result of our world’s socio-political and techno-ecological transformations towards relational, processual “architectural research..
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Corporate Sustainability: The Global Cement Industry and Its Approach to Architectural Culture" by Dr. Kim Föster
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Corporate Sustainability: The Global Cement Industry and Its Approach to Architectural Culture" by Dr. Kim Föster
Urbanisation, Infrastructures and Everyday Life
Keynote speakers: Prof Em Clara Greed (UWE) Dr Christoph Luethi (EAWAG) Prof Nicholas Rose (King's College London) Dr Farhana Sultana (Syracuse) Countries undergoing rapid urban transformations experience shifts in various infrastructural systems. However, there are explicit tensions between the apparent need to develop national infrastructu..
GDI Lecture Series: Ambitious and ambiguous public investments in African cities with Edgar Pieterse
The Global Development Institute is pleased to host Edgar Pieterse as part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Ambitious and ambiguous public investments in African cities Urban governance in most African cities is marked by weak regulatory enablement by national governments, limited autonomous fiscal resources, limited managerial capac..
Summer Institute of Urban Studies
Our annual summer institute investigates urban theoretical and methodological questions, with a range of associated career development issues.
School events
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