PhD Seminar — WORKING WITH THE NOTE NEW: REUSE STRATEGIES AND PROCESSES

Seminar

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Date

25 Sep 2024
Organiser

PolyU Design
Time

15:00 - 17:00
Venue

Zoom

Speaker

Prof. Graeme Brooker

Enquiry

PolyU Design 2766 6305 sd.phd@polyu.edu.hk

Summary

This presentation explores the ideas, processes and strategies that are employed when working with existing spaces and buildings. It will use research and work from the superREUSE platform at the RCA which Brooker leads in order to demonstrate how working with the existing requires unique approaches that reverse normative approaches in creative pedagogies. This is explored primarily through how research is focussed around the generation of questions that interrogate the already existing answer in the form of the material to be reused.

All PolyU PhD students and SD staff are welcome.
This Zoom meeting accommodates 100 participants at most.
Event registration is required and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Successful registrants will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom meeting details before the event.

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Graeme Brooker

Professor, Head of Programme, Interior Design, Royal College of Art

Graeme Brooker is Professor and Head of Interiors at The Royal College of Art, London. Brooker studied and practiced Interior Design in London and Manchester, teaching Interior Architecture in Cardiff between 1997–2004. He then commenced the role of the head of Interior Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, and between 2004–2011 led the BA, MA and the Design Research Centre. Following that, he joined the RCA as Head of Programme in 2015. Brooker has published numerous books on the interior including the recent 50|50 WORDS FOR REUSE (Canalside Press 2022). He was the founder of the charity Interior Educators (IE) and director between 2006–08 and 2010–2018 and from 2022–. He is currently working on the books The SuperReuse Manifesto (Routledge 2024) and The Story of the Interior (Thames & Hudson 2025).