CRUNCH

The Bartlett School of Architecture’s new research-driven and practice-led seminar series, CRUNCH, returns for the 2024–25 academic year.

CRUNCH is curated by the school’s Co-Directors of Public Programming, Albert Brenchat - Aguilar and Déborah López Lobato.

Our line-up of industry-leading speakers will explore the multifaceted dimensions of ‘dating’ through an architectural lens. Here, ‘dating’ transcends the usual understanding of romantic relationships and instead becomes a metaphorical and literal framework for exploring temporal, spatial, social and technological dimensions of architectural practice. The seminars will consider ‘dating’ in the context of: Data processing and capitalism, colonialism, carbon dating and the anthropocene, capitalocene, plantationocene and molysmocene. Predicting futures, marking time, epochs and age in the context of migration, conflict and love. Digital romance, matching and social media algorithms. Ageing and tradition, the linear conceptions of time and revolutionary time. Memorialising and archiving, documenting, curating and building monuments. Reconciliation and reparations, justice and remediation.

Join us for a series of conversations decoding the past, present and future of connections, societal structures and the spaces we create and inhabit.

Please note: This term, CRUNCH will take place from 18:30–20:00 on Mondays at The Bartlett School of Architecture, Room G.12, 22 Gordon Street, London. The events are first-come, first-seated and have limited capacity. The opportunity to network will be available after the seminar has concluded.