2 lectures + 2 seminars by Dr. Iain Biggs

Architecture + Art + Philosophy + Place-making

>> Monday, 25 November, 2013:

Lecture - ‘Deep Mapping and Place-based Research’

2-3:00pm in 5013

Seminar - ‘Socially engaged practice’ for Architects and Art students

3-4:30pm  venue: Boardroom in the Crawford Building

>> Tuesday, 26 November, 2013:

Lecture –‘Art and Ecosophy'

11-12noon in 5013

Seminar: ‘Practice Based PhD’s'

[for MFA in ART & Humanities plus invited students] 2-3:30pm venue tbc

Dr. Iain Biggs

Director of PLaCE (England) 

Research Fellow in Visual Arts Practice at University of the West of England, Bristol

PLaCE is an international consortium of 4 academic research centres that address issues of site, location, context and environment at the intersection of a multiplicity of disciplines and creative practices, including land art, landscape, and architecture. The 4 centres include: PLaCE, England (UWE Bristol); PLaCE, USA (University of Minnesota); PLaCE, Scotland (University of Dundee); and PLaCE, Australia (University of Melbourne). This promises to be a rich program of 

Dr. Iain Biggs has published on the politics of arts-led research, doctoral supervision and related educational concerns, and on contemporary art related to place and identity, including deep mapping. Since 1997, he has been the editor of Wild Conversations Press. Publications include:

  •  ‘The Spaces of “Deep Mapping”: a partial account’ in Journal of Arts and Communities Vol 2 No 1 (July 2011) pp.5-25.
  •  ‘Essaying Place: Landscape, Music, and Memory’ – book chapter in Process: Landscape and Text eds Adeline Johns-Putra & Catherine Brace (Amsterdam & New York, Rodopi 2010) ISBN-10: 9042030755
  • ‘Bordering’, book chapter in Holly McLaren (ed) bordering: an art / geography collaboration (2007) London: Queen Mary, University of London