Moderator: Ekow Eshun
Ekow Eshun is a writer, journalist, and broadcaster. Until November 2010 he was the artistic director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He is a contributor to BBC2's Friday night arts programme Newsnight Reviewand a former editor of Arena magazine. Eshun is also the editor-in-chief of Tank Magazine and a Creative director of Calvert 22 a non-for -profit institution dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art from Russia and Easter Europe.
Dr. Yasminah Beebeejaun
Dr. Yasminah Beebeejaun teaches in the Bartlett School of Planning at UCL and has taught previously at the University of the West of England and the University of Manchester. She completed her BA (Hons) in Town and Regional Planning (First class honours) and her PhD at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests cover gender, race, environmental justice, and participatory dimensions to urban planning. She has been an international visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, University of Illinois, Chicago, and the University of Michigan.
Dr Jon Goodbun
Dr Jon Goodbun teaches at the University of Westminster, Bartlett UCL and the RCA, where he runs the Department of Ontological Theatre. His recent writing develops themes from his PhD research on the conceptual models from cybernetics, systems theory and political economy which shape our efforts to think ecologically. He was a part of the Scarcity research project (based at Westminster), and has recently co-authored 'The Design of Scarcity' (with Jeremy Till, Andreas Rumpfhuber and Michael Klein), which was published by Strelka in 2014, and co-guest edited the AD issue on Scarcity in Summer 2012.
Professor Joe Kerr
Professor Joe Kerr holds a first-class honors degree in the History of Art from University College, London, and an MSc in the History of Modern Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. He was a Senior Tutor in the History and Theory of Architecture at Middlesex University and the University of North London before joining the RCA in 1998, where he established the Critical and Historical Studies programme in 2001. He is also a passionate Londoner and a bus driver, working out of Tottenham Garage.
Joe Kerr has published widely on the history and theory of Modern Architecture and Urbanism. He is co-editor of Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture and the City (Routledge: 1995), The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space (MIT: 2000). He has co-curated various exhibitions, including Strangely Familiar (Royal Institute of British Architects, etc. 1995) and Millennium Products (The British Council/ The Design Council, 1998). He has written for The Architects Journal, Architecture Today, Building Design, Blueprint, Royal Academy Magazine, The Independent and The Guardian amongst others, and has lectured widely in Britain, Europe and the United States.
Joe Kerr has published widely on the history and theory of Modern Architecture and Urbanism. He is co-editor of Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture and the City (Routledge: 1995), The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space (MIT: 2000). He has co-curated various exhibitions, including Strangely Familiar (Royal Institute of British Architects, etc. 1995) and Millennium Products (The British Council/ The Design Council, 1998). He has written for The Architects Journal, Architecture Today, Building Design, Blueprint, Royal Academy Magazine, The Independent and The Guardian amongst others, and has lectured widely in Britain, Europe and the United States.
Professor Katharine Heron
Professor Katharine Heron is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster, and Director of Ambika P3. Recently Head of Department, she is now focused on developing practice based research to be expanded with EU partners. As an academic she been involved in architectural education, the procedures for professional validation, and proposal for futures flexible options. As a qualified architect, Heron’s background in practice as Feary + Heron Architects, where she worked on a range of projects with the arts and community organisations, and numbers of exhibition designs. She is a past chair of the Arts Council's Visual Arts and Architecture Advisoy Panels. She has lived in East London since the mid-seventies, where she was co-founder of the Mudchute Farm in 1977, and lives adjacent to areas of massive new housing development.
Professor Sarat Maharaj
Professor Sarat Maharaj, was born and educated in South Africa during the Apartheid years. He is currently Professor of Visual Art & Knowledge Systems, Lund University/Malmo Art Academy, Sweden—and Research Professor at Goldsmiths University of London where he was Professor of Art History and Theory (1980-2005). From 2014, he will be the ‘Distinguished Scholar’ Professor at University of South Africa, Pretoria.
He was Rudolf Arnheim Professor, History of Art, Philosophy Faculty, Humboldt University, Berlin (2001-02) and Fine Art Research Fellow at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht (1999-2001).
His specialist research and publications focus on Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce and Richard Hamilton. He was co-curator of Documenta 11, 2002. With Richard Hamilton and Ecke Bonk, he curated retinal .optical .visual.conceptual… at the Boijmanns, Rotterdam, 2002. He was co-curator of Farewell to Postcolonialism. Guangzhou.2008 and Art, Knowledge and Politics, Sao Paolo Biennale 2010. He was the chief curator of the Gothenburg Biennale: ‘Pandemonium: art in a time of creativity fever’. 2011. He was the peer advisor to the Sharjah Biennale 2013 and is on the curatorial team of the ‘BRICS’ project – the rise of ‘Non-Western Modernities’ and Beyond? (Dresden, Rio, Kochi, Beijing, Cape Town, Moscow. 2013-15).
He was Rudolf Arnheim Professor, History of Art, Philosophy Faculty, Humboldt University, Berlin (2001-02) and Fine Art Research Fellow at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht (1999-2001).
His specialist research and publications focus on Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce and Richard Hamilton. He was co-curator of Documenta 11, 2002. With Richard Hamilton and Ecke Bonk, he curated retinal .optical .visual.conceptual… at the Boijmanns, Rotterdam, 2002. He was co-curator of Farewell to Postcolonialism. Guangzhou.2008 and Art, Knowledge and Politics, Sao Paolo Biennale 2010. He was the chief curator of the Gothenburg Biennale: ‘Pandemonium: art in a time of creativity fever’. 2011. He was the peer advisor to the Sharjah Biennale 2013 and is on the curatorial team of the ‘BRICS’ project – the rise of ‘Non-Western Modernities’ and Beyond? (Dresden, Rio, Kochi, Beijing, Cape Town, Moscow. 2013-15).
