TYPE OF ACTIVITY: Public lecture

The estate village and its architecture: A charming social experiment?

A lecture by Professor Jonathan Finch, University of York.

Architecture and landscape have long been recognised as ways in which landowners have expressed power and ideologies. Although these are usually associated with the manor house itself, the estate village was also a powerful tool. Instantly recognisable, with neat, uniform houses often in a planned settlement, the estate village emerged over the eighteenth century. Yet the ‘chocolate box’ appeal of the estate village hides a complex and challenging history. The estate village expressed the extension of ideology and power
over the wider population, as an exemplar of social control. Early pattern books are an important source for both rural architecture of the period and
for expressing forms of social reform. But we also need to look beyond the estate village to assess its impact on the wider landscape. In the UK by the nineteenth-century social reformers were concerned by the growth of rural slums as landowners pushed the poor and infirm out of their estates. Estate villages offer a window onto an in- increasingly polarised rural community.

Join us for a series of mini-lectures on sustainable architecture every last Thursday of the month from 15-17:00 in the Didaktek.

The lectures hold a debating session where the lecturer, tutors, and audience rearrange themselves in a non-hierarchical setup, providing spatial and technical conditions for physical and digital participation.

The aim is to challenge rituals of knowledge exchange by transforming them into an inclusive and multifocal experience in which attendees become contributors.

The lectures present guests from all over the world with different approaches to sustainable architecture. Their work engages with sustainable development challenges, climate activism, finite resources, ecology, contextual design, non-anthropocentric paradigms, or social equality and inclusivity.

Preliminary schedule*

• Talk 1. REBEL: Santiago Cirugeda (ES) – 30 September 2021
• Talk 2. RETHINK: ROTOR (BE) 28 October 2021
• Talk 3. BOTTOM (UP): Leapfrogprojects (FI) 25 November 2021
• Talk 4. INGRAINED: Rural Urban Framework (HK) – 16 December 2021
• Talk 5. The students’ choice –  27 January 2021
• Talk 6. ESSENTIAL: Eko Prawoto (ID) 24 February 2022
• Talk 7. ROOTS: Footprints EARTH – Yatin Pandya (IN) 31 March 2022
• Talk 8. MILITANT: Riwaq (PS) – 28 April 2022
• Talk 9. INSTIGATOR: Leslie Lokko (UK) –  19 May 2022
• Talk 10. The students’ choice. 23 June 2022

*The schedule can slightly change as we are still confirming the guests’ participation for the spring semester.

The lecture series is arranged by Teaching Programme 3 & Research Lab 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture.

Join us for a series of mini-lectures on sustainable architecture every last Thursday of the month from 15-17:00 in the Didaktek.

The lectures hold a debating session where the lecturer, tutors, and audience rearrange themselves in a non-hierarchical setup, providing spatial and technical conditions for physical and digital participation.

The aim is to challenge rituals of knowledge exchange by transforming them into an inclusive and multifocal experience in which attendees become contributors.

The lectures present guests from all over the world with different approaches to sustainable architecture. Their work engages with sustainable development challenges, climate activism, finite resources, ecology, contextual design, non-anthropocentric paradigms, or social equality and inclusivity.

Preliminary schedule*

• Talk 1. REBEL: Santiago Cirugeda (ES) – 30 September 2021
• Talk 2. RETHINK: ROTOR (BE) 28 October 2021
• Talk 3. BOTTOM (UP): Leapfrogprojects (FI) 25 November 2021
• Talk 4. INGRAINED: Rural Urban Framework (HK) – 16 December 2021
• Talk 5. The students’ choice –  27 January 2021
• Talk 6. ESSENTIAL: Eko Prawoto (ID) 24 February 2022
• Talk 7. ROOTS: Footprints EARTH – Yatin Pandya (IN) 31 March 2022
• Talk 8. MILITANT: Riwaq (PS) – 28 April 2022
• Talk 9. INSTIGATOR: Leslie Lokko (UK) –  19 May 2022
• Talk 10. The students’ choice. 23 June 2022

*The schedule can slightly change as we are still confirming the guests’ participation for the spring semester.

The lecture series is arranged by Teaching Programme 3 & Research Lab 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture.

Join us for a series of mini-lectures on sustainable architecture every last Thursday of the month from 15-17:00 in the Didaktek.

The lectures hold a debating session where the lecturer, tutors, and audience rearrange themselves in a non-hierarchical setup, providing spatial and technical conditions for physical and digital participation.

The aim is to challenge rituals of knowledge exchange by transforming them into an inclusive and multifocal experience in which attendees become contributors.

The lectures present guests from all over the world with different approaches to sustainable architecture. Their work engages with sustainable development challenges, climate activism, finite resources, ecology, contextual design, non-anthropocentric paradigms, or social equality and inclusivity.

Preliminary schedule*

• Talk 1. REBEL: Santiago Cirugeda (ES) – 30 September 2021
• Talk 2. RETHINK: ROTOR (BE) 28 October 2021
• Talk 3. BOTTOM (UP): Leapfrogprojects (FI) 25 November 2021
• Talk 4. INGRAINED: Rural Urban Framework (HK) – 16 December 2021
• Talk 5. The students’ choice –  27 January 2021
• Talk 6. ESSENTIAL: Eko Prawoto (ID) 24 February 2022
• Talk 7. ROOTS: Footprints EARTH – Yatin Pandya (IN) 31 March 2022
• Talk 8. MILITANT: Riwaq (PS) – 28 April 2022
• Talk 9. INSTIGATOR: Leslie Lokko (UK) –  19 May 2022
• Talk 10. The students’ choice. 23 June 2022

*The schedule can slightly change as we are still confirming the guests’ participation for the spring semester.

The lecture series is arranged by Teaching Programme 3 & Research Lab 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture.

Join us for a series of mini-lectures on sustainable architecture every last Thursday of the month from 15-17:00 in the Didaktek.

The lectures hold a debating session where the lecturer, tutors, and audience rearrange themselves in a non-hierarchical setup, providing spatial and technical conditions for physical and digital participation.

The aim is to challenge rituals of knowledge exchange by transforming them into an inclusive and multifocal experience in which attendees become contributors.

The lectures present guests from all over the world with different approaches to sustainable architecture. Their work engages with sustainable development challenges, climate activism, finite resources, ecology, contextual design, non-anthropocentric paradigms, or social equality and inclusivity.

Preliminary schedule*

• Talk 1. REBEL: Santiago Cirugeda (ES) – 30 September 2021
• Talk 2. RETHINK: ROTOR (BE) 28 October 2021
• Talk 3. BOTTOM (UP): Leapfrogprojects (FI) 25 November 2021
• Talk 4. INGRAINED: Rural Urban Framework (HK) – 16 December 2021
• Talk 5. The students’ choice –  27 January 2021
• Talk 6. ESSENTIAL: Eko Prawoto (ID) 24 February 2022
• Talk 7. ROOTS: Footprints EARTH – Yatin Pandya (IN) 31 March 2022
• Talk 8. MILITANT: Riwaq (PS) – 28 April 2022
• Talk 9. INSTIGATOR: Leslie Lokko (UK) –  19 May 2022
• Talk 10. The students’ choice. 23 June 2022

*The schedule can slightly change as we are still confirming the guests’ participation for the spring semester.

The lecture series is arranged by Teaching Programme 3 & Research Lab 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture.

Join us for a series of mini-lectures on sustainable architecture every last Thursday of the month from 15-17:00 in the Didaktek.

The lectures hold a debating session where the lecturer, tutors, and audience rearrange themselves in a non-hierarchical setup, providing spatial and technical conditions for physical and digital participation.

The aim is to challenge rituals of knowledge exchange by transforming them into an inclusive and multifocal experience in which attendees become contributors.

The lectures present guests from all over the world with different approaches to sustainable architecture. Their work engages with sustainable development challenges, climate activism, finite resources, ecology, contextual design, non-anthropocentric paradigms, or social equality and inclusivity.

Preliminary schedule*

• Talk 1. REBEL: Santiago Cirugeda (ES) – 30 September 2021
• Talk 2. RETHINK: ROTOR (BE) 28 October 2021
• Talk 3. BOTTOM (UP): Leapfrogprojects (FI) 25 November 2021
• Talk 4. INGRAINED: Rural Urban Framework (HK) – 16 December 2021
• Talk 5. The students’ choice –  27 January 2021
• Talk 6. ESSENTIAL: Eko Prawoto (ID) 24 February 2022
• Talk 7. ROOTS: Footprints EARTH – Yatin Pandya (IN) 31 March 2022
• Talk 8. MILITANT: Riwaq (PS) – 28 April 2022
• Talk 9. INSTIGATOR: Leslie Lokko (UK) –  19 May 2022
• Talk 10. The students’ choice. 23 June 2022

*The schedule can slightly change as we are still confirming the guests’ participation for the spring semester.

The lecture series is arranged by Teaching Programme 3 & Research Lab 3: Radical Sustainable Architecture.