Alternate Currents

_ a symposium on architecture /
_ organised by the school of architecture / university of sheffield /
_ venue / showroom cinema / paternoster row /sheffield / s1 2bx
_ 9.00am 26th November 2007 to 5.00pm 27th November 2007

Alternate Currents is a major international symposium which looks at alternative forms of architectural praxis // The symposium will present a range of ideas from around the world proposing how to conduct architectural practice in new and reflective ways // Many of the speakers start from a critical position with regard to the normative models of architectural practice and the values embedded in it // From political, social, gender and theoretical standpoints, the speakers propose innovative ways of thinking about the future of architectural practice //

SPEAKERS

_Tessa Baird /Anna Holder / James Wakeford // London /
_Jens Brandt // Copenhagen /
_Carolyn Butterworth / Sam Vardy // Sheffield /
_Jonathan Charley // Glasgow /
_Prue Chiles / Leo Care / for BDR// Sheffield /
_Pedro Gadanho // Lisbon /
_Emiliano Gandolfi // Rotterdam /
_Mathias Heyden // Berlin /
_Andreas Lang / public works // London /
_Maria Malard / Ana Baltazar / Renato Cesar Ferreira // Belo Horizonte /
_Ruth Morrow // Belfast /
_Andreas Müller // Berlin /
_Constantin Petcu/ Doina Petrescu/ Helen Stratford // Paris/Cambridge /
_Jean-François Prost / Montreal /
_Colin Ripley // Toronto /
_Flora Samuel // Bath /
_William Tozer // London / Melbourne /
_keynote
_MOM // belo horizonte / brazil

DETAILS

Admission is free, but you will need to reserve a place by Friday 23rd November by emailing Jeremy Till (j.till@sheffield.ac.uk).

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A PROGRAMME HERE

Details as to how to get to the Showroom are here. It it is two minutes walk from Sheffield Station. Come out of the station entrance and it is up on the hill to the left.