Photo: Johannes Schwartz 2018 Self-built family home on Amsterdam’s squatted ADM terrain.

Grainne Hassett, founding architect of The Calais Builds Project and Sarah Glennie, Director, IMMA - reflect on some of the most pertinent issues arising out of the The Calais Builds Project that continue to drive Hassett’s work as an architect and educator as well as her ideas on the ethical responsibilities of architects and society at large, to contribute to the global refugee crisis.

Japanese Traditional Houses are closely connected with a severe local climate, timber construction and social status. They reflect the spatial hierarchy and the real life of 18th and 19th century Japan. Specific house types including those of rich merchant, farmers and shipbuilders will illustrate the high sophistication of their architecture

e-NABLE is a global open source prosthetics community. Co-founder Jen Owen is coming from Seattle to share e-NABLE story with us

‘The only question is, how much can I change the building?’ - Julian Powell Tuck

Senior lecturer at SAUL Grainne Hassett to present her work Building and Breaking Structures at the Calais Refugee camp.

Tanja Poppelreuter is Lecturer in the History and Theory of Architecture in the Belfast School of Architecture at Ulster University and previously at Auckland University, New Zealand. She holds a PhD in Art History and has extensively researched the prevalent ideologies of the early twentieth century that sought to reform mankind through architecture.

Reflections on Georg Henrik von Wright’s thinking and its possible implications for architecture

Lesley Lokko, architect, academic and the author of ten best-selling novels - Tuesday, October 4th at 1PM

On Altering Architecture is an attempted taxonomy of interventional design, a description and to an extent a classification of the issues and approaches relevant to the work, as a specialism within Architecture itself, just as the making of new buildings might also be considered.