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The Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC)
Part of the School of Environment and Development and the Manchester School of Architecture

Politics of Design: Participants

The Politics of Design
Burak Asiliskender, (Erciyes University)
‘Re-creating the self and nation in a factory’
Marten Boekelo, (University of Amsterdam)
‘Boom aesthetics: transformation of an historical neighbourhood in Central Beirut’
Ralf Brand (University of Manchester)
‘Architectures of (de)radicalisation in Beirut’
Vincent Calay (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
‘Building vacuum: the political ghosts of car parking in a Belgian municipality’
Jeffrey Chan (University of California-Berkeley)
‘The politics of improvisation in planning’
Nora Colden (University of Leipzig)
‘Unpacking politics in architecture: inscription and de-scription of gender-specific relationships’
Julie Crawshaw (University of Manchester)
‘Dirty neighbours: an ANT understanding of the role of artists in the regeneration of Sunderland’
Bart de Zwart (Eindhoven University of Technology)
‘Mapping matters: a tentative outline of the politics of regional design’
Steven Dorrestijn (University of Twente)
‘The legacy of utopian design: design to guide and change people’
Isabelle Doucet (The University of Manchester)
'Architecture production in Brussels: is it really 'all just politics after all'?'
Ignacio Farías (Social Science Research Centre Berlin)
‘The politicization of architectural practice: governmental and public entanglements’
Uriel Fogué and Fernando D. Rubio (Architecture Agency and CRESC)
‘General Vara del Rey Square: an experimental design for the construction of a cosmopolitical ecology’
Ulrik Jørgensen (Danish Technical University)
‘Healing architecture and design – the politics of new design visions and programs’
Tahl Kaminer (Delft School of Design)
‘Architectural efficacy: learning from radical sociology’
Denisa Kera (National University of Singapore)
‘Cosmopolitical “Kibbutzes”: from early visions of Academy of Games and Pleasures to present day Hackerspaces, DIYbio Labs and Citizen Science Incubators’
Andrew Karvonen (University of Manchester)
‘Design and the relational politics of place’
Florian Kossak and Tatjana Schneider (University of Sheffield)
‘Spatial Agency and the Politics of Locality’
Adrian Mackenzie (Lancaster University)
‘Design in synthetic biology’
Alvise Mattozzi (Iuav University of Venice)
‘Semiotics’ role in a non-modern constitution: a case study about design’
A.M. (Hanneke) Miedema (Wageningen University)
‘Opening up engineering design to the politics of sustainable animal husbandry’
Kathryn Moore (Birmingham City University)
‘Design expertise: connecting aesthetics, tectonics, and culture’
Maria Prieto
‘Immaterial architectures for a new material world’
Charles Rice (University of Technology Sydney)
'Atrium Effects: Portman's Hyatt Regency Atlanta'
Kristine Samson (Roskilde University)
‘Performative process designs: The case of The Wharf City’
Robert Schmidt III, Toru Eguchi, and Dan Sage (Loughborough University)
‘Who’s got the most pull? – the micro-politics of building design’
Cristiano Storni (University of Limerick)
‘On the politics of design and designed artifacts: the notion of things and the case of self-monitoring technology’
Ann Thorpe (Open University)
‘Design as political resistance’
Marc Tuters (University of Amsterdam)
‘Forget psychogeography: locative media as cosmopolitics’
Stefan White (Manchester School of Architecture)
‘Species of affect: architecture and users’
Albena Yaneva (University of Manchester)
‘Towards a relational anthropology of design generated politics’