January 2024
October 2023
Symposium
ELIA Leadership Symposium 2023
The Beginning of Now
18 – 20 Oct 2023
Manchester School of Art
July 2023
April 2023
March 2023
Exhibition
For Man is Coming Here
Featuring work by Brigitte Jurack
4 Mar – 18 May 2023
Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre
February 2023
January 2023
Performance
Matchstalks Remastered (work-in-progress)
Kevin Egan and Michael Pinchbeck
27 Jan 2023
Grosvenor East Building
December 2022
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
May 2022
Conference
The Architecture of Borderlands
2022 conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
16 – 20 May 2022
In Search of Fathers
By Babel Theatre. Presented by the Performance Research Group
20 May 2022
Manchester School of Theatre
November 2021
Exhibition
Love Thy Neighbour
Asia Triennial Manchester 2021
12 – 24 Nov 2021
Manchester Poetry Library
May 2021
Interruptions
Interruptions: The Intersectional Hydra
With Harold Offeh and Michelle Williams Gamaker
28 May 2021
October 2020
September 2020
Bunker Talks
Artists and researchers talk about who they are and what they do
25 Sep 2020 – 9 Jul 2021
Published online weekly
April 2020
March 2020
Research Talk
Dr Moa Carlsson
Computer Aided Visions of the British Industrial Landscape (1965-1988)
11 Mar 2020
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
February 2020
Public Lecture
Modern Playhouses: An architectural history of Britain's 'new theatres'
Dr Alistair Fair
5 Feb 2020
Manchester School of Art
January 2020
Public Lecture
Professor Kristina Niedderer Inaugural Lecture
Designing for Mindful Responsibility
13 Jan 2020
Geoffrey Manton Building
December 2019
Conference
GLAD 2019
Art & Design Education: Where do we go from here?
6 Dec 2019
Manchester School of Art
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
Conference
IASDR 2019
International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference
2 – 5 Sep 2019
Manchester School of Art
June 2019
Symposium
Funny Peculiar
Amy Sillman, Fionna Barber, Robert Garnett, Melissa Gordon
6 Jun 2019
Manchester Metropolitan University
Public Lecture
The Rael/Real of Psychogeography
Urban walking as a method of ameliorating castration anxiety in Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
13 Jun 2019
Geoffrey Manton Building
Research Talk
Isabella Indolfi
Digital Immersion Research Talks
17 Jun 2019
Righton Building
First Floor Open Space
May 2019
Interruptions
Interruptions: Louise Adkins
Notes for a Performance - (Re) visioning a Smoky Meeting
10 May 2019
Holden Gallery
April 2019
Public Lecture
Professor Farida Vis
Researching Visual Social Media: Why Images Matter
1 Apr 2019
Geoffrey Manton Building
March 2019
Public Lecture
We need to talk about vegetation!
Professor James Hitchmough
7 Mar 2019
Chatham Building
February 2019
Conference
The Landscape and Architecture of British Post-War Infrastructure
14 – 16 Feb 2019
Benzie Building
Lecture Theatre 403
January 2019
Interruptions
Interruptions: Sam Meech and Raz Ullah
Audio visual performance
17 Jan 2019
Holden Gallery
Interruptions
Interruptions: K Craig
Installation and A/V performance by K Craig
22 Jan 2019
Holden Gallery
Interruptions
Interruptions: Jenny Baines
Series of 16mm film installations and a screening by Jenny Baines and invited artists
23 Jan 2019
Holden Gallery
December 2018
Conference
GLAD 2018
Underneath the metrics: What is really happening to Art and Design education?
7 Dec 2018
Manchester School of Art
November 2018
Public Lecture
Professor Ola Uduku
Schools, Heritage, Urbanism and Development in Africa: Past Histories and Future Perspectives
19 Nov 2018
Benzie Building
Lecture Theatre 403
October 2018
The Life of Buildings
Website and Virtual Reality Experience Launch Event
31 Oct 2018
Manchester Reform Synagogue
September 2018
Exhibition
Drawing the Modern
The work of Gordon Hodkinson and post-war architectural education in Manchester
10 Sep 2018 – 5 Apr 2019
Special Collections Gallery
June 2018
Exhibition
Outsiders and Insiders
Savoy through the lens of the Michael Butterworth archive
28 Jun – 20 Jul 2018
All Saints Library
May 2018
Conference
Pictures of War: The Still Image in Conflict since 1945
23 – 25 May 2018
Geoffrey Manton Building
Public Lecture
War & Storytelling After 9/11: A Photojournalist’s Perspective
A public lecture by Louie Palu
23 May 2018
Geoffrey Manton Building
Masterclass on Pictures and Conflicts
For Postgraduate Research Students and Early Career Researchers
23 May 2018
Righton Building
First Floor Open Space
April 2018
March 2018
Symposium
Writing Painting/ Painting Writing
A symposium exploring aspects of the relationship between painting and writing
22 Mar 2018
Whitworth Gallery
February 2018
Public Lecture
The Erotic Cloth: Seduction and Fetishism in Textiles
14 Feb 2018
Manchester Metropolitan University
January 2018
Exhibition
In the Family of the Carbons
Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson
20 Jan – 3 Mar 2018
The Turnpike
November 2017
Exhibition
жевательная резинка
A new perfomance by Tim Brennan to mark the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution
7 Nov 2017
Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces
October 2017
August 2017
July 2017
Exhibition
Collage and Curiosity
Charlie Holt, Michael Leigh and Hazel Jones
15 Jul – 19 Nov 2017
Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse
June 2017
Conference
Landscape as Infrastructure
Landscape Institute Annual Conference 2017
22 – 23 Jun 2017
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
May 2017
Design Foundations for Early-Stage Design
An Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Network Event
16 May 2017
Manchester School of Art
April 2017
Conference
GLAD 2017
Exploring Territories: The Changing Landscape of Art & Design Higher Education
6 Apr 2017
Manchester School of Art
Recoverism and the Arts
Driving change through collaborative research
25 Apr 2017
Benzie Building
Lecture Theatre 403
Exhibition
Made in Translation
Crafts Research Group at The Portico Library: exhibition and book launch
27 Apr – 3 Jun 2017
The Portico Library
March 2017
Symposium
The Way We Live Now
Continuity in Architecture Symposium
9 Mar 2017
Benzie Building
Lecture Theatre 403
January 2017
Exhibition
Radicals Assemble! DEMAND Utopia!
An evening of readings, talks, screening and exhibition from the Institute of Urban Dreaming
12 Jan 2017
Peoples History Museum
December 2016
Exhibition
Drawing the Wake
Reading Finnegans Wake through drawing
5 Dec 2016 – 31 Mar 2017
Special Collections Gallery
November 2016
Conference
Make:Shift
A Crafts Council event
10 – 11 Nov 2016
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
October 2016
July 2016
June 2016
ASK Open Lecture
Professor Mary Oliver
Welcome to the feelies: empathy cinema a totally theatrical experience
8 Jun 2016
70 Oxford Street
Exhibition
The Lost Boys
Remembering the boy soldiers of the First World War
13 Jun – 26 Aug 2016
Special Collections Gallery
May 2016
ASK Open Lecture
Professor Martyn Evans
Design Routes: Revitalisation Through Design
18 May 2016
MMU Business School
Symposium
Landscapes of Identity Symposium 2016
Mapping the Place Identity of Manchester
18 May 2016
National Football Museum
ASK Open Lecture
Professor Raphael Fonseca (Colégio Pedro II, Brazil)
The line that welcomes the body: the hammock and Brazil
25 May 2016
Geoffrey Manton Building
April 2016
Exhibition
Projecting British Design
The Design Council Slide Collection in Focus
18 Apr – 28 May 2016
Special Collections Gallery
ASK Open Lecture
Professor Tom Jefferies
Stealthy Cities: Exploring the limits of contemporary globally informed urban space in the UK
20 Apr 2016
Benzie Building
Lecture Theatre 403
Talking of Textiles
Professor Janis Jefferies and Dr Jennifer Harris
27 Apr 2016
Cavendish Building Lecture Theatre C.1.01
March 2016
ASK Open Lecture
Professor Steve Hawley
Manchester as a mythical city; reflections in locative media
2 Mar 2016
Manchester School of Art
February 2016
ASK Open Lecture
Professor Keith Brown
50 Years in the Making
10 Feb 2016
Manchester Metropolitan University
ASK Open Lecture
Professor David Crow
Graphic Design: Where are we now, and how did we get here? - FULLY BOOKED
17 Feb 2016
Manchester School of Art
January 2016
ASK Open Lecture
Professor Felicity Colman
A Philosophy of Materialist Film
13 Jan 2016
70 Oxford Street
ASK Open Lecture
Professor Jason Wood
David v Goliath. Independent cinema in a mainstream culture
27 Jan 2016
Manchester School of Art
December 2015
ASK Open Lecture
Professor Stephen Dixon
RESONANCE: conflict and commemoration in the centenary of the Great War
9 Dec 2015
Manchester School of Art
November 2015
Conference
8th Annual MMU Postgraduate Research Conference
5 Nov 2015
Manchester Metropolitan University
Exhibition
The Lost Boys
Remembering the boy soldiers of the First World War
5 – 11 Nov 2015
Holden Café Space
ASK Open Lecture
Professor Sarah Perks
Keep bleeding: The future of cross art form curation
11 Nov 2015
Manchester School of Art
Symposium
Art and Geopolitical Borders
Contested sovereignty and art practice
20 Nov 2015
70 Oxford Street
ASK Open Lecture
Professor John Hyatt
Fist of Grass: can history painting be made in 2015?
25 Nov 2015
Manchester School of Art
Exhibition
compression culture
What might be lost and gained through compression?
26 Nov 2015 – 15 Jan 2016
Vertical Gallery
ASK Open Lecture
Professor Erick Felinto (UERJ, Rio de Janeiro)
Vilém Flusser’s “Philosophical Fiction”: Science, Creativity and the Encounter with Radical Otherness
27 Nov 2015
70 Oxford Street
October 2015
ASK Open Lecture
Professor Pavel Büchler
What makes art contemporary
21 Oct 2015
Manchester School of Art
July 2015
New Forms for a Philosophy of Film
Creative and political methodologies
19 – 20 Jul 2015
HOME and Manchester School of Art
April 2015
March 2015
Exhibition
Resonance
Reflections on the Great War through artworks inspired by Staffordshire collections
9 Mar – 26 Apr 2015
Museum of Cannock Chase