This year’s Architectural Humanities Research Association Conference is taking place at the University of Nottingham from Thursday 19 – Saturday 21 November. Many AA tutors are taking part in the conference, with the keynote speech being given by Lawrence Barth from the Housing and Urbanism programme.

One of the sessions of the conference, on 'Affective provision in Collective Forms' is being chaired by AA tutor Doreen Bernarth and features papers from many Projective Cities tutors, including: Platon Issaias 'From asset to debt and dispossession: Housing in the years of economic crisis in Greece'; Raül P. Avilla Royo 'Cellular urbanism: Taller d'arquitectura and the city in space'; Alvaro Velasco Perez 'Ex Africa Aliquid novum: Herman Haan's journeys in pseudo-ethnographic vein'; Gianna Bottema 'Housing and care cooperatives in the Netherlands: Spatial diagrams of cluster living'.

Another session is being chaired by AA tutor Anna Shapiro of Sheppard Robson architects, on the subject of ‘Live / Work’. Elena Palacios Carral is giving a paper on the subject of her article in AA Files 77, 'When artists lived at the Louvre. The establishment of the Royal Academy in 1648 and the state's effort to house the artists in Paris’. AA PhD Lola Lozano Lara is giving a paper titled 'Vecindad: Redistribution of domestic space in Mexico City'; HTS tutor Nerma Cridge is presenting her research on social isolation titled 'Drawing the Distance' and AA PhD Eleni Axioti is giving a paper titled 'Biopolitics in the house: British public housing and the rise of neoliberal governmentality in the private home.'

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