DEGW Symposium 5 October 2017
DEGW Symposium 5 October 2017
A living archive: Possibilities for/through the DEGW archive
At this symposium, we aim to create links between DEGW concepts, methods and ethos reflected in the DEGW Archive and current research and practice in the built environment.Conveners: Dr Hiral Patel, Professor Stuart Green, Professor Flora Samuel and Mr Guy Baxter
“Consequently, heterogeneity, the multiplicity of discourses, not only of practice but of criticism, history and theory, of personal story, anecdote and biography, are the ‘texts’ which make the archive live.”
Stuart Hall (2001) Constituting an archive, Third Text, 15:54, 89-92
The DEGW Archive has initiated an exchange between the past, present and future, in relation to research and practice that impact the built environment from the scale of a desk to the city. The archive offers a rich field to explore the relationships between client organisations and their buildings. It is here that the archive poses potential to articulate knowledge and learning practices which bridge the normative categories of ‘Supply’ and ‘Demand’. Mobilising the notion of a ‘living archive’, this symposium calls for contributions discussing one or more of the following themes:
- current issues facing built environment clients and their advisers and lessons that can be learnt from the work of DEGW
- adaptation and development of DEGW concepts and methods in current practice
- developing archive as a knowledge resource for research and practice
Explore the symposium papers and presentations:
Hiral Patel (Paper) Andrew Laing (Paper) George Cairns (Paper) Frank Becker (Paper) Steve Smith (Paper) Tony Branton (Paper) Robin Nicholson (Presentation) Lindesay Dawe (Paper) Amy Thomas Stephen Bradley (Presentation) Chris Alcock (Paper)