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Cities: design and urban inequalities Lecture with Fran Tonkiss

Welcome to an evening lecture with sociologist Fran Tonkiss. Introduction and moderation by Jennifer Mack.

Time: Thu 2017-10-26 18.30

Location: Venue: KTH School of Architecture (A108) - Osquars Backe 5

Participating: Sociologist Fran Tonkiss

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Language: English
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Researching Architecture

As problems of urban inequality grow more intense, how might design respond to the challenges of the unequal city? The ways in which spatial design serves to express and reinforce social and economic disparity and division are often easy to see, but it can be harder to think about design approaches and interventions that address inequality and exclusion in more progressive ways. This lecture considers the place of design in debates about urban inequality, and reflects on the critical practice of design against inequality.
 
Fran Tonkiss is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE), and member of the LSE Cities Programme. Her research and teaching is in the fields of urban and economic sociology. Her interests in urbanism include cities and social theory, urban development and design, urban inequalities, spatial divisions and public space. She is the author of Cities by Design (Polity, 2013) and Space, the City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005), and is currently completing a book on Urban Inequalities: divided cities in the twenty-first century.
 
Jennifer Mack is researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University and at the School of Architecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
 
RESEARCHING ARCHITECTURE is a public program of events highlighting and discussing the role of research and its relation to architecture practice and society. Through various forms of dialogue the program aims at presenting ongoing research and connecting academia and architecture practice as well as other fields, issues and contexts. Researching Architecture is presented as part of the KTH School of Architecture Events Series 2017.

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