Heritage and the Culture of Planning: Closing the Space Between

Venue: Baines Wing SR 1.14

Join us for the first in in our Centre Research Seminar Series, with speaker Dr Tina Richardson (a recent graduate of School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies).

This lecture looks at how psychogeography and semiology can be used to examine architecture, urban décor and the aesthetics of space. By providing an analysis of a postmodern campus building at the University of Leeds, Tina will show you how psychogeography can be incorporated into spatial methodologies in order to explore both our critical and subjective responses to the spaces we live and work in every day. By physically placing the body in space and using an array of tools from critical theory, architecture and urban space can be critiqued in the same way that any other cultural text can. You will have the opportunity to examine part of the campus yourself: the precinct area designed by Chamberlain, Powell and Bon in the 1960s. The lecture will end with an open discussion based on the findings of your explorations.

Tina Richardson is an independent scholar in the field of Urban Cultural Studies. She completed her PhD at the University of Leeds: The Unseen University: A Schizocartography of a Redbrick University Campus. Tina guest lectures in psychogeography and cultural theory and is currently completing an edited volume: Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography, which will be published in 2015 by Rowman and Littlefield. See Tina's blog and website for further information.

All are welcome. Please register at ccsmghinfo@leeds.ac.uk

For more information about this seminar series, contact Helen Graham: h.graham@leeds.ac.uk