Forthcoming June: Keynote lecture at ‘Speculative worlds: interacting with ideas, pasts & futures’ at UCL.
‘On Balance’, book launch, Westminster University
2022:
“Imagining Diverse Futures”, Gender and Diversity in Architecture, AAA Equality Collaborative, Aarhus School of Architecture
‘“One among many”: Voices heard and held in imagined futures’, AHRA: Voices in Architecture, Westminster University Paper available here
‘Architecture and sf storytelling’, In Conversation, Westminster University
‘Joyous New Worlds: a queer sci-fi writing workshop’ Beyond Gender, LGBT Foundation
‘Unlearning and Re-imagining Education Through Science Fiction’ Beyond Gender, Free University of London
2021:
“His feet lost weight for an instant…” Falling away in science-fiction’ at Falling Away, Westminster University Paper available here
‘Doors that could take you elsewhere: Science fiction as architectural research’ Brighton University
2020:
‘Science Fiction and Ecological Thinking’ with Caroline Edwards and Hetta Howes, produced by Luke Mulhall BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Listen Here
‘“Equally like a beginning and an end”: Edge-lands and threshold conditions’, at Beyond Borders: Empires, Bodies, Science Fictions,LSFRC Annual conference 2020 Paper available here
‘“It was quiet”: The Radical Architectures of Understatement in Feminist SF’, at Earth and its Others: the Geographies of Science Fiction, University of Fribourg Paper available here
‘Rules of the Game’ workshop, part of Reading Assembly: Power, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern
Future Impermanent, Symposium organiser and exhibition curator, Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Arts UAL Full details here
2019:
‘Made Up Ground’ Keynote talk at Senses of Science Fiction, University of Warsaw Paper available here
‘The Present as Past: Science Fiction and the Museum’ Museum Engagement as Speculative Design, Camberwell College of Arts Video available here Paper available here
‘The Reliquary in the Ruin: Museums in Science Fiction’ Life in the Glasshouse: Splintered Memories, Birkbeck, Originally accepted to: Memories of the Future, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, alternative event to avoid crossing picket at Senate house. Paper available here
‘Constructing the Absent Paradigm: Images of an Urban Future’ workshop at Senses of Science Fiction, University of Warsaw
‘Navigating Beyond Gender: The City in Feminist Science Fiction’ Unfair Cities, University of Limerick
‘Schools Without Walls’ Thinking Through Open Learning Spaces, De La Warr Pavillion
Science, Environment, SF at the Science Museum, CHASE institutions
‘Spatial Re-production: Maintaining the Built Space of SF’,Productive Future at Birkbeck University
‘Maintenance as a Radical Act of Unmaking’ with Katy Bienart, Fielding Architecture. Feminist Practices for a Decolonized Pedagogy at Brighton University
Brutal Worlds: Barbican Book Club ‘High Rise’ with Roger Luckhurst, Barbican
‘(Imagined) Futures of Transport and Navigation’ Panel Chair,Ytterbium, 70th British National Science Fiction Convention.
‘Beyond Gender Roundtable’ with Tom Dillon, Rachel Hill, Sasha Myerson and Katie Stone, Race, Gender and Technology in Science Fiction, Maison Française, Oxford
Science Fiction Workshops for Museum Engagement as Speculative Design at the Horniman Museum with UAL
2018:
'The Fabric of the City: Scarcity and Sustainability' part of the 'Beyond Petromodernity: Alternative Energy Futures' panel stream, WorldingSF, University of Graz. Paper available here
‘As Plain as Spilt Salt: The City as Social Structure in ‘The Dispossessed’’ WorldingSF, University of Graz Paper available here
'World Building from the Ground Up - Earth Science and Architecture', Nine Worlds Geek Fest 2018
'Enacting Social Spaces of Feminist SF', Utopian Acts, Birkbeck University.
'Future of Cities', Panel chair with Kim Stanley Robinson, Renee Sieber, Matthew De Abaitua and Paul McAuley, FollyCon, 69th British National Science Fiction Convention.
'Architecture of the Future City', poster exhibition and panel discussion, FollyCon, 69th British National Science Fiction Convention.
'Building a City: Site and Symbol’, Right on Paper: A Research Event for SF&F Writers, endorsed by the British Fantasy Association.
2017:
'The Built Environment: SF and the Construction of Enclosure', Organic Systems: Environments, Bodies and Cultures in Science-Fiction, at Royal Holloway University. Conference reports: SFRA,Birkbeck CCL
‘Concrete Utopias: An Education of Desire’, panel participant and keynote panel chair, publication editor and exhibition curator, Utopia, Now! part of Imaginaries of the Future, at Chelsea College of Art. Conference Abstracts
‘Innovations in Teaching and Learning Space in Science and Technology,’ SCHOMS (Standing Conference for Heads of Media Services) Annual Conference, at Exeter University.
‘Science Fiction Aesthetics: Tensions between Reality and the Radical,’ Fantasy in Reality, Courtauld Institute of Art. Conference Abstracts
‘Vicarious vertigo: The emotional experience of height in the science fiction city’ The Built Urban Environment: Social Networks and Wellbeing, organised by COHESION (Compact Housing Effects on Social Isolation or Networks) at UCL
'Aerial Perspective: Estrangement and Vertical Urbanism', Dystopia Now, Centre for Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck. Conference Report, Conference Blog
'Vertigo in The City: Realities and Fictions,' with Deriu, D., Westminster Architecture Research Forum 2016/17, Westminster University
2016:
'Scaling the Heights: Mega-Structures of Science Fiction,’ Scaling the Heights Symposium, Architecture Research Collaborative (ARC) at Newcastle University, Tyne Bridge. Part of the ‘Being Human’ festival, School of Advanced Study, University of London in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.
'Ascending the Urban: Climbing the Mega-structures of Science Fiction’ Mountains and Megastructures Symposium, Architecture Research Collaborative (ARC) at Newcastle University
'Block Capitals’ Tuesday Talks - Staff Research, Newcastle University
Keynote Address ‘Innovative Pedagogies in Practice’ Higher Education Estates Forum 2016, Stable Events, Whittlebury Hall
2015:
'City Limits: Social Structures in the Building-Cities of Science Fiction', Utopian Studies Society Annual Conference, Utopian Studies Society, Newcastle University
‘Vicarious Vertigo: The Social Experience of Height in the Science-Fiction City’, Vertigo in the City, University of Westminster and Wellcome Trust, University of Westminster
'Managing a Master Plan: Case Study of Middlesex University’ Higher Education Estates Forum 2015, Stable Events, Whittlebury Hall
'Managing a Master Plan’ Education Estates Conference 2014, Step Connect with support from EFA, Manchester Central
2014:
‘'Block Capitals: From the High-Rise to the Vertical City', Building Brave New Worlds: The Architecture of Sci-fi Movies, British Film Institute and Design Council, BFI
In: Ramchurn, R. (2014) ‘Building Brave New Worlds: The Architecture of Sci-fi Movies,’ Architects’ Journal, December 3
'The Possibility of Failure’with Knox-Williams, C. Utopographies: Evaluation, Consensus and Location, UAL & Critical Practice & The Department of Things to Come, Triangle Space at University of the Arts London
'Building Imaginary Worlds: The Construction of The World Inside’ Utopographies: Evaluation, Consensus and Location, UAL & Critical Practice & The Department of Things to Come, Triangle Space at University of the Arts London
'Vertical Worlds: of Climbing and Sinking', RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2014, ‘Vertical Worlds’ Session, Social and Cultural Geography Research Group, Royal Geographic Society
'Between the Image and the City: Vertical London,’ LonCon 3: The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, WorldCon, Excel Center
2013:
‘Building Imaginary Worlds’ Utopography: Imaging, representing and critiquing imagined worlds, The Department of Things to Come & Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal & Northumbria University & Newcastle University, Baltic 39 Art Gallery
‘The View from Below: Ballard and the London High Rise’, Literary London Society Annual Conference, Senate House
‘Between the Imaginary and the Built: Dystopia as Architectural Critique’, Utopian Studies Society Annual Conference, New Lanark
‘The Tower City: Science Fiction and the critique of the high rise’, Current Research in Speculative Fiction, University of Liverpool
‘The Tower City: Vision of the Future City’ Bangor Visions, Bangor University
