5 December 2006

Ranulph Glanville Lecture

Ranulph Glanville will give the 4th lecture in the series presented by Dundee University’s School of Architecture: Energising Cities.

Having originally trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London, Ranulph Glanville is an international authority on cybernetics and has led innovative research and teaching in this area at numerous of Schools of Architecture across the world.

He has authored over 250, papers, books and articles covering architecture, cybernetics, design theory and philosophy. He combines his current position as visiting Research Fellow and Professor at the School for the Constructed Environment in the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia with extensive consultancy work on digital design. As a polymath, his work includes electronic music composition which has been widely performed as well as art installations, demonstrating his interest in exploring, in its widest sense, creativity and media.

The lecture will be followed by an all day Masterclass during which students in the new Masters in Architecture programme will present their work to Ranulph Glanville and take part in critical debate concerning creative practice and research.

Kathryn Findlay, Professor of Architecture and the Environment in the School of Architecture, University of Dundee, says, "Dr Ranuplh Glanville is a pioneer in articulating thinking processes involved in design and research. His lecture and Master class are profoundly pertinent at a time when we embrace change at the new Dundee School of Architecture."

D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee

Date: Thursday 7th December

Time: 6-7p.m.

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