Launch night – Thursday 23rd May, 5pm – 9pm

Show continues Friday 24th May – Friday 7th June Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays

The show is a celebration of our final year students across; MArch Architecture / BA Architecture BA Fashion Design & Communication BA Fine Art BA Graphic Design & Illustration BA History of Art & Museum Studies BA Interior Architecture BA Film Studies (Liverpool Screen School)

This year we also host INTO THE LIGHT Jamie Reid: A Memorial Exhibition Curated by Professor Colin Fallows

Please join us on the launch night to see performance art, fashion shows, displays, installations, screen art, portfolios and meet students and staff from all the courses featured.

Launch night – Thursday 23rd May, 5pm – 9pm Show continues Friday 24th May – Friday 7th June Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays

The show is a celebration of our final year students across; MArch Architecture / BA Architecture BA Fashion Design & Communication BA Fine Art BA Graphic Design & Illustration BA History of Art & Museum Studies BA Interior Architecture BA Film Studies (Liverpool Screen School)

This year we also host INTO THE LIGHT Jamie Reid: A Memorial Exhibition Curated by Professor Colin Fallows

Please join us on the launch night to see performance art, fashion shows, displays, installations, screen art, portfolios and meet students and staff from all the courses featured.

City Lab - Second Tier Port Cities Symposium

The Architecture of Wellbeing Symposium

Liverpool School of Art & Design, LJMU

5:30pm, 23 November 2023

About The Event

The symposium will provide an opportunity for an open discussion of the current working conditions for students, academics and practitioners in architecture.

The interactive event will allow attendees to answer questions anonymously using their mobile during the event. Analysis from the responses will be used to tailor the discussion and provide real time data during the event.

The discussion aims to highlight the potential actions people can take, particularly in practice, and the resources available to the architectural community to gain better health and wellbeing.

Panellist

The panel will welcome representatives from the two local Liverpool Universities, LJMU and UoL, local practicing Architects and a representative from the Architects Benevolent Society. Further panellists to be announced.

Firdevs Tosun – Director at AWE Architecture / LAF Committee Member

Andrew Jarman – Project Architect at Ellis Williams / ABS Ambassador  

Daniel Marfany – Wellbeing Team Leader at UoL

The evening will be hosted by:

Daniel Barber - Senior Architect at Kier / LAS Vice President

Please join us on Tuesday 10th October at 6pm in Liverpool School of Art and Design for an evening of debate and discussion exploring how design is influencing the climate narrative, the persuasive techniques used to shape our planets’ future, and the way in which these issues impact on social justice. 

The event is FREE and there will be refreshments.

Pete Thomas, programme leader for Graphic Design and Illustration, will be in conversation with Scott Starrett joining us live from New York. Scott is the Founder of Tandem NYC, and will be discussing his approach to socially responsible design and civic engagement movements. Scott’s work includes the visual identity for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ congressional campaign, and campaign work for Green New Deal and Planned Parenthood.

Following this LJMU Graphic Design and Illustration alumni Sana Iqbal will lead a panel discussion exploring design’s power to influence the political narrative to what action needs to be taken to support a just green transition. 

📣 Speakers include:

Steve Connor - Co-founder of Creative Concern

Sana Iqbal - Founder of Studio Sana

Jonathan Orlek - Director of Studio Polpo and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at LJMU

Jenny Porter - Visual Artist and Director for Metal Liverpool

Abdi Suleiman - Political Affairs Manager at Friends of the Earth

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Liverpool School of Art & Design Degree Show

Launch night – Thursday 25th May, 5pm – 9pm Show continues Friday 26th May – Friday 9th June Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays

John Lennon Art and Design Building,

2 Duckinfield Street, Liverpool, L3 5RD

The show is a celebration of our final year students across;

MArch Architecture / BA Architecture  BA Fashion Design & Communication BA Fine Art BA Graphic Design & Illustration BA History of Art & Museum Studies

BA Interior Architecture

Please join us on the launch night to see performances, displays, installations, fashion shows, portfolios, films, screen art and magazines and to meet staff and students from all the courses featured

LAS Society's 2022 Film Series 

Liverpool Architectural Society's 2022 curated film series Consuming Architecture takes place in October and November.

The series highlights three diverse films, each exploring the subject of food.

The parallels between food and architecture often overlap - from the way that raw materials are sourced, processed and consumed to our understanding of both food and architecture's global, environmental and sustainable impact.

The series is being shown at The Box Ground Floor FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool.

Babette's Feast

FACT | Babette’s Feast

Tuesday 11th October

Oscar winner in 1988 for Best Foreign Language Film, director Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast sees Babette, a Parisian refugee, called to serve a family on the forbidding and desolate coast of Jutland. Babette's lavish celebratory banquet tempts the family's dwindling congregation, who abstain from such fleshly pleasures as fine foods and wines.

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover

FACT | The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover

Tuesday 25th October

Written and directed by Peter Greenaway, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover centres around Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant - where every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.

Tampopo

FACT | Tampopo

6.00pm Tuesday 8th November

The tale of an enigmatic band of ramen ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, Tampopo serves up a savory broth of culinary adventure seasoned with off beat comedy sketches and the erotic exploits of a gastronome gangster. The 1985 Japanese Comedy, written and directed by Juzo Itami, remains one of the most delectable examples of food on film.

Liverpool School of Art & Design Degree Show

https://lsad.co.uk/

Show continues 27 May – 17 June.

10am – 5pm. Closed Sundays and bank holidays.

John Lennon Art and Design Building, 2 Duckinfield Street, Liverpool, L3 5RD.

LJMU Architecture Degree Show

Visit our virtual degrees show via link below

http://lsad.co.uk/

LJMU Architecture staff and students invite you to join us for the launch of our Virtual Degree Show and prizegiving tomorrow. Please join us in celebration of the great work produced this year by our graduating students.

Follow link below to register

Virtual Degree Show Launch and Prizegiving.

Thursday 10th June

The launch will commence with guided tours of the show 5:00pm - 5:30pm

Prize giving will commence at 5:30pm.

This year BA Architecture studios have explored new ideas for post Covid working environments, public assemble buildings that facilitate devolved administration and the levelling up agenda, socio-cultural buildings as part of an urban regeneration landscape strategy, the regenerative potentials of a contemporary bathhouse and designs for a live art gallery.

The Masters in Architecture programme has stayed local, for obvious reasons. Students have studied the Dingle, close to Liverpool city centre, exploring through a combination of Urban Design, housing and their thesis projects the potential for regeneration of this interesting area. Many projects have concentrated upon how the residential districts of the city can be reimagined to deal with the climate emergency, local ecologies and economic and social sustainability. Examples include: Botanical gardens for Liverpool’s lost collections, Urban farming, and housing that is adapted to cater for other species, pandemics and climate change.

In addition to the design studio we have continued with the very successful ‘Live Projects’ programme, which despite being undertaken in a virtual environment, provides a strong link between students and local charities requiring architectural advice for their projects. Clients this year included: Futureyard music venue in Birkenhead, Sefton Borough council (a return client), and Royal Standard arts studios.

Our graduates continue to display great imagination and skill which despite the pandemic they have brought to bear upon their studies receiving much praise from our external examiners. We wish them all the best for their future careers and hope they enjoy the exemplary virtual show. A wonderful vehicle to display their expertise to a wide audience.

Liquid Club #16: Xaviera Simmons

Thursday 27 May, 7-8pm (7pm BST / 8pm CET / 2pm ET)

Online via Zoom

New York based artist Xaviera Simmons will host the Biennial’s May Liquid Club for a discussion-based listening event.

Xaviera will be joined by LB21 Curator Manuela Moscoso, Sally Tallant, the previous Director of Liverpool Biennial who currently is Executive Director at Queens Museum New York and Lesley Lokko, writer and architect, running the African Futures Institute (AFI), an architectural school she founded in Accra, Ghana.

The conversation will explore the complex relationship between labour in the arts, institutional buildings and knowledge.

Xaviera’s work exploring the entangled history of the United States through juxtaposing historical imagery and text against contemporary backdrops of the American landscape is currently on show at the Cotton Exchange building as part of Liverpool Biennial 2021: The Stomach and The Port, co-presented with Photoworks.

About the artist

Xaviera Simmons (b. 1974, New York, USA) lives and works in New York, USA. Simmons’ interdisciplinary practice spans across photography, performance, choreography, video, sound, sculpture and installation. Rooted in an investigation of past, present and future histories, her works often concern the interconnectedness of formal processes and the exchange of formal concerns within an art historical and socio-political canon.

About the speakers

Lesley Lokko trained as an architect at the Bartlett School of Architecture and holds a PhD in Architecture from the same institution. She is the founder and director of the African Futures Institute, a postgraduate school of architecture and public platform of built environment disciplines located in Accra, Ghana. She was the founder and director of the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg from 2014 — 2019 and Dean of Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY from 2019—2021. She is the editor of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000); editor-in-chief of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture and a series editor of the Design Research in Architecture (UCL Press), together with founders Jonathan Hill and Murray Fraser. In 2004, she made the successful transition from academic to novelist with the publication of her first novel, Sundowners (Orion 2004), a UK-Guardian top forty best-seller, and has since then followed with eleven further best-sellers, which have been translated into fifteen languages. She has lectured and published widely on the subject of race, identity and architecture, and has served on many international juries and awards over the past decade, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Archiprix, the RIBA President’s Medals, Archmarathon and the Venice Biennale.

Manuela Moscoso was the Senior Curator at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. Previously, she was the Associate Curator of the Bienal de Cuenca 12, Ecuador and the Co-Director of Capacete, a residency programme based in Brazil where she also ran the curatorial programme, Typewriter. She is the co-founder of Zarigüeya, a programme that activates relationships between contemporary art and the pre-Columbian collection of the Museo Casa del Alabado, Ecuador.

Sally Tallant is the President and Executive Director of the Queens Museum, Queens, New York. She was previously the Director of Liverpool Biennial (2011-2019). She has delivered large-scale exhibitions, commissions and music and performance programmes.

Booking via: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/liquid-club-16-xaviera-simmons-tickets-146361277521