Online repository
We aim to establish an online and free-to-access repository of relevant of audio, visual and discursive references that can better support academics’, designers’, and educators’ engagement with projects of alterity in the built environment.
Information and criteria for submitting content to this repository will become available after the Symposium.
Architectures of Alterity Symposium repository
Recordings of our presentations are available as a dedicated playlist on the Welsh School of Architecture's YouTube page. You can hear a range of speakers exploring alterity as a spatial practice, an urban tactic, an iconography, a state of fluidity, and a transgression of social, cultural, and historical orders.
Architecture for Kids podcast by Antonio Capelao
An insightful, fun, and informative audio series, that aims to improve the connection between the built environment and education, with each episode delving into the fascinating world of architecture and its impact on the next generation. A sample of episodes is listed below:
- Episode 1 features Sandra Hedblad, Head of Learning at the Built Environment Trust
- Episode 2 features Catherine Ritman-Smith, Head of Learning and Engagement at the Young Victoria & Albert Museum
- Episode 3 features Jerry Tate, Founding Director at Tate + Co
Architecture for kids podcast is on Apple, Spotify, and other major platforms - please subscribe, leave your comments, and share it with your friends and family. We hope you find it both informative and inspirational.
Embodied pedagogies: introducing ‘otherness’ in architectural education
Explore research that examines the educational and ethical value that embodied pedagogies and pedagogies of alterity hold for architectural education.
Hear our students reflect on their creative participation in our video on the Empathetic Pedagogies project, hosted on the Welsh School of Architecture's YouTube page.
Troublesome pedagogies: introducing 'otherness' to 1st-year design studio
Explore research that examines the complex relationship of the human body to architecture, it is an intimate and longstanding one and is strongly linked to the relationship of the human body to the wider cosmos.
Events
Past events
Welsh School of Architecture’s Neurodiversity Celebration Week Workshop
Join us at the Welsh School of Architecture for a special event during Neurodiversity Celebration Week.
The Welsh School of Architecture is running a special event during Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2024 on 18 to 24 March. Learn about neurodiversity, including Autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and other conditions, and how it impacts our colleagues and peers. We’ll explore our work, social and spatial environments, created by and for neurotypical population, can and need to adapt to be inclusive for neurodiversity.
The event will take place on 19 March 2024 in person at the School. The day will be split into two guest talks in the morning, and a workshop to explore neurodiversity and architecture in the afternoon. The workshop will held between 13:00 to 15:00.
Location: Bute 0.52/54
Schedule:
- 10:00 – Opening
- 10:10 – Catherine Jones (Wales Autism Research Centre, Cardiff University)
- 11:10 – Helen Kane (Access Included consultancy)
- 13:00 – Workshop
- 15:00 – Close
