Events

We host a number of events for students, alumni, staff and the community. Explore our upcoming and past events below.

If you know of an event which isn't listed below, please email us at events@eait.uq.edu.au.

SAFE! Biocontainment Laboratory Architecture from the 1950s, to the Future
Professor Sandra Kaji-O'Grady | 2020 Research Seminar Series
Wednesday 1 April 2020 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Professor Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, along with Chris L. Smith and Lydia Kallipolti, recently submitted a Discovery Grant application to the ARC aiming to discover more about how and why biocontainment architecture has changed since the 1950s and how the architectural expression of biosafety responds to and shapes changing views about science. In this talk, Sandra will describe the process of developing the grant application, and introduce some of the world’s past, current and future BSL4 animal health laboratories.
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Digital by Craft
Kim Baber, Dr Dan Luo, Joanne McCallum, and Dr Fred Teixeira | 2020 Research Seminar Series
Wednesday 29 April 2020 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The field of Digital Crafting is interested in combined forms of digital and analogue processes and their role in creative design. Yet, the creative process is equally entailed in crafting the digital. This seminar presents unique methods and strategies in which digital tools are being developed and used to support creative design practices. The studies illuminate the role of analogue making in digital crafting iterative process by exposing the importance physical experience in the crafting of digital processes. Through interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary processes, material, code and machine are entangled to produce new research pathways.
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The Changi Airport–Gardens by the Bay Corridor (1981–2020): Singapore’s Soft Power shaping the City-State’s Urban Strategies and World Class City Status
Dr Silvia Micheli, Dr Johanna Brugman Alvarez, and ARCH7017 students | 2020 Research Seminar Series
Wednesday 6 May 2020 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Singapore’s city-making practices are seen by many Asia Pacific cities as a model to achieve today’s most desired “world class city” status. They constitute sources of innovation, experimentation and creativity, able to shape alternative social configurations, and successfully break established norms of dominant urban standards. This paper focuses on the urban corridor defined by the connection of Changi Airport, East Coast Parkway (ECP) and Gardens by the Bay as a single urban entity, unified by a visual and experiential choreography.
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A developing research agenda for digital cultural heritage
Dr Kelly Greenop and Associate Professor Chris Landorf (with HDR students Xiaoxin Zhao, Kali Marnane, Yuan Chen, and Liquan Gong tbc) | 2020 Research Seminar Series
Wednesday 13 May 2020 12:00pm to 1:30pm
This seminar will describe Dr Kelly Greenop's and Associate Professor Chris Landorf's recent digital cultural heritage developments in the School of Architecture, including conference involvement, grant applications, professional organisation presentations and course development. The seminar will also include brief presentations from a growing cohort of HDR students on their digital cultural heritage-related research. The seminar will focus on the multi-dimensional approach being used to grow a particular research strength within the School.
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A community’s journey towards land rights and recognition: Uncovering the formal and informal divide as a governmental tool and structural condition of social and spatial inequalities in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Dr Johanna Brugman Alvarez | 2020 Research Seminar Series
Wednesday 25 March 2020 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Since colonial times a formal/informal divide entrenched in systems of urban planning in Phnom Penh, Cambodia has been used as a governmental tool by the state to marginalize and exclude informal settlements. This tool has also been used to impose market-led tenure reforms and a land formalisation program that perpetuate an individual/collective divide by promoting individual property rights. This paper uncovers these interrelated dichotomies and explains how these are used as governmental tools by actors within and through the state to their advantage and the social and spatial inequalities these generate in the city.
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Guilford Bell Travel Scholarship
Dilrabo Tosheva | 2020 Research Seminar Series
Wednesday 18 March 2020 12:00pm to 1:00pm
The purpose of the Guilford Bell scholarship is to support a research higher degree candidate in observing architectural methods used overseas. The 2019 scholarship supported Dilrabo Tosheva's recent research trip to former-Soviet Central Asian countries of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan. Dilrabo's thesis explores the origin and significance of the Islamic monumental facade.
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UQ BRUCE Speaks x COX Architecture
w guest speaker Philip Cox. Event is exclusive to BRUCE student members.
Thursday 12 March 2020 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Please join us for an afternoon in conversation with Professor Philip Cox AO, founder of COX Architecture.
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AA Roundtable: Rights and Reclamations
feat. Carroll Go-Sam
Wednesday 11 March 2020 6:00pm to 8:00pm
What do our shared experiences around land and water sovereignty and their intersection with the built environment say about our future visions for Australian place?
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Public Memorial: James Peter Birrell
24 October 1928 – 20 September 2019
Thursday 6 February 2020 9:30am to 11:00am
Together with The University of Queensland, the family of James Peter Birrell (24.10.1928 - 20.09.2019) invite you to remember and celebrate Jim and his significant contribution to the University at a tree planting memorial.
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Speaking of Buildings
Book Launch
Tuesday 10 December 2019 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Please join us on Tuesday 10 December 2019 for the book launch of Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research.
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UQ International Architecture Lecture Series - Summer
with Milinda Pathiraja
Thursday 5 December 2019 6:30pm to 8:00pm
The 2019 University of Queensland International Architecture Lecture Series brings together forward-thinking global architects, designers and intellectuals who each generate new knowledge, ideas and strategies within the international architecture community.
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Urban Tropicality
7th International Network of Tropical Architecture Conference
Thursday 5 December 2019 6:30pm to Sunday 8 December 2019 2:00pm
Urban Tropicality 2019 is the 7th meeting of the International Network of Tropical Architecture (iNTA) hosted for the first time by The University of Queensland's School of Architecture.
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Graduate Exhibition
Thursday 28 November 2019 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Our end of year graduate exhibition is the most important event in the School’s calendar, bringing together students, practitioners and academic staff.
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UQ International Architecture Lecture Series - Spring
Marijn Schenk
Tuesday 29 October 2019 6:30pm to 8:00pm
The 2019 University of Queensland International Architecture Lecture Series brings together forward-thinking global architects, designers and intellectuals who each generate new knowledge, ideas and strategies within the international architecture community.
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SOLD OUT Made by People: Micro-Design in the Asia Pacific City
Symposium
Tuesday 29 October 2019 9:00am to 5:00pm
We will focus on the agency of micro-design as a way to challenge big urban plans and related policies, as we recognise micro-design as an effective tool to give a greater degree of flexibility and empathy to the global city.
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Rituals of Title: land tenure and time
2019 Research Seminar Series
Monday 21 October 2019 11:30am to 1:00pm
Land tenure is ephemeral, since the life of people is short – generally less than a century – compared to the age of the landscape – where geological epochs are measured in tens of millions of years. Yet both are processes that are temporal, and both shape the landscape separately and now together, creating “artefacts”, landscape forms that are by-products of the processes’ operation. This presentation forms part of the ongoing development of Julian’s next book project provisionally entitled Latent City: the landscape architecture of land tenure, and will comprise a background historical investigation of land title and an argument for treating it as a temporal process that has formal effects, linking it to the model of “practices” that he developed in his last book Overgrown.
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