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Upcoming events

  • 4 October – 23 October | Designing Respect Exhibition
  • 05 October | Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East
  • 06 October | City Planning and Health: a Global Challenge
  • 12 October | Next Steps for the Northern Powerhouse ***cancelled***
  • 17 October – 20 October | Habitat III: Towards a new urban agenda
  • 25 October | In Defense of Housing
  • 03 November | Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life
Past events
2016
  • 27 September | Cities and the new climate economy: on the role of urban form and transport
  • 6 September | The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur
  • 18 August | Tania Bruguera and Saskia Sassen: In Conversation
  • 13 June | Johannesburg: A City Between
  • 2 June | Queering the African City: Johannesburg and Nairobi
  • 5 May | Protect and Develop
  • 15 March | The World’s Climate Capital? COP21 and the Greening of Paris
  • 27 February | The Future City: cruel or consoling Utopia? LSE Cities Literary Festival discussion
  • 21 January | Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
  • 12 January | Detroit Rising?: Crisis, Bankruptcy, and Reinvention
2015
  • 3 December | Narratives of Inclusion
  • 26 November | Designing Urban Infrastructure
  • 25 November | The Politics of Equity
  • 23 November | Steering Urban Growth
  • 19 November | Confronting Climate Change
  • 11 November | Disrupting Mobility Summit
  • 2 November | London Launch of Towards New Urban Mobility Report
  • 22 October | New Urban Diversities: London perspectives
  • 19 October | Event Cancelled: Architecture and Urbanism
  • 6 October | ‘Ordinary Streets’ film launch
  • 21 September | Berlin Launch of Towards New Urban Mobility Report
  • 21 September | Migrant streets: exploring radical visualisation
  • 20 August | Spaces for Literacy
  • 16 June | Erasure and displacement: urban memoryscapes workshop #2
  • 15 June | Designing the Urban Commons
  • 11 June | Designing Commons, Defining Commons
  • 8 June | Double Vision exhibition hosted by the Mellon Fellowship Programme in Cities and Humanities at LSE Cities
  • 20 May | The Happiness of Cities
  • 12 May | Moving In and Around the City: Mobilities, Circulation, and Uncertainty
  • 21 April | Ash Amin: Lively Infrastructures
  • 25 March | Designing the Urban Commons: Lessons from the Field
  • 25 March | Ideas Competition: Designing the Urban Commons
  • 16 March | Configuring Light/Staging the Social events in Australia
  • 28 February | Theatrum Mundi LSE Literary Festival discussion
  • 25 February | An urbanising world: triumph or tragedy?
  • 19 February | Configuring Light’s 3rd ESRC Seminar: Lighting Futures
  • 17 February | Urban memoryscapes: space and memory in the post-conflict city
  • 29 January | Better Growth, Better Climate: cities and the new climate economy
  • 28 January | Energy Transitions: Implications for City Governments
  • 27 January | Exhibition: Urban Lightscapes/Social Nightscapes
  • 19 January | Managing Disruption, Avoiding Disaster and Growing Stronger in an Unpredictable World
2014
  • 11 December | Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
  • 8 December | Democracy, Decency and Devolution
  • 27 November | Public lecture to celebrate Haworth Tompkins RIBA Stirling Prize 2014
  • 14 November | Urban Age Governing Urban Futures conference
  • 13 November | Urban Futures in the 'Asian Century' : Uncertainty, Speculation, Experimentation
  • 5 November | Melbourne Unplugged
  • 23 October | Peripheral Urbanisation
  • 21 October | Moving Kiruna: A community reinventing its city
  • 17 October | Symposium: Urban Lightscapes/ Social Nightscapes
  • 13 October | Workshop: Urban Lightscapes/Social Nightscapes
  • 22 September | Lighting the Local
  • 16 September | A City Worth Fighting For
  • 11 September | Mediating Uncertainty: Information and the Urban
  • 10 August | City, Religion, Capitalism: Turning Points for Civilisation
  • 8 July | Petro-urbanisms: Urban futures on the oil frontier
  • 19 June | Kapital Architecture: Commodity
  • 16 June | Space for Architecture
  • 16 June | Elephant and Castle Walkshop
  • 16 June | Urban Governance Futures: Scenarios for London
  • 11 June | Cities, Fragility and Conflict in an Uncertain World
  • 13 May | Saskia Sassen: Expulsions
  • 7 May | Configuring Light night walk
  • 24 April | Configuring Light/ Staging the Social: Lighting London
  • 10 April | Configuring the Urban Night
  • 10 April | Cities and the New Climate Economy
  • 3 April | Transforming Indian Cities: Challenges and Opportunities
  • 3 April | CITY RELIGION CAPITALISM
  • 3 April | Caught in the Crossfire: Urban Violence, Inside and Out
  • 14 March | Urban data: From fetish object to social object
  • 28 February | Policing the Possible: Governing Potential Criminality
  • 12 February | Broken Edges: Cities and Other Ruins
  • 30 January | Between life and death in Kinshasa: Film screening + discussion
  • 30 January | Shifting Ground: The Precarity of Land on the Urban Periphery
2013
  • 28 November | Transformative Design for Social Integration
  • 25 November | Renewing Indian Cities: Challenges of Urbanisation and Development
  • 4 November | Going Green: How cities are leading the next economy
  • 29 October | The Metropolitan Revolution: Perspectives from US cities
  • 10 October | Global migration and urban renewal
  • 10 October | Word on the Street: City vocabularies of migration and diversity
  • 3 October | Negotiating spaces: design for knowing
  • 27 August | Networked Futures: The Politics of Urban Infrastructure
  • 26 June | The Pandemic City: Governing Urban Health and Disease
  • 25 June | Theatrum Mundi launches Negotiating Spaces: Time, Knowledge, Place, Material
  • 24 June | RAMSES workshop: progress on EU cities and climate change adaptation project
  • 5 June | Multilingual Streets: London's litmus strips of change
  • 4 June | From Response to Resilience: the role of the engineer in disaster risk reduction
  • 28 May | Catastrophic Urbanism: Disaster, Emergency, Cities
  • 25 May | Embodied City – Mit Kunst Stadt entwickeln
  • 23 May | NightSeeing™
  • 30 April | Fluid Uncertainty: Prospects of Urban Water
  • 26 April | Interdisciplinary action for urban health
  • 20 April | Spaces-in-Between: The City Becoming Ideas Camp
  • 18 March | London Going East
  • 7 March | Healthy African Cities
  • 2 March | Between Curatorial and Urban Practice
  • 11 February | Globalization, Fear and Insecurity
  • 17 January | Land of the Seven Rivers
2012
  • 12 June | City, street and citizen: the measure of the ordinary
  • 15 May | The architecture of the Olympics
  • 10 May | Rebel Cities: the urbanisation of class struggle
  • 1 May | High speed rail and urban space
  • 30 April | The return of the subject
  • 3 March | Under the cranes: literature, film and the city
  • 29 February | A public health approach to suicide prevention in Hong Kong
  • 7 February | The World Bank-supported "Urbanization Knowledge Platform"
2011
  • 1 September | The tale of two regions
  • 29 June | Urban regeneration and social sustainability
  • 6 June | Living in the endless city
  • 20 May | The architecture of social investment
  • 19 May | Distance and cities: where do we stand?
  • 17 May | The architecture of governance: the structure of democracy
  • 28 March | Cities and climate change
  • 24 March | A vision for the next urban economy: from macro to metro
  • 15 March | Ecological urbanism
  • 26 January | African urbanism
  • 17 January | The naked city
  • 11 January | Politics, power, cities
2010
  • 29 November | Cities and buildings
  • 19 November | Lagos: confronting change in a global megacity
  • 7 June | Cities under siege: the new military urbanism
  • 2 June | Mexico City: inclusive actions towards sustainability
  • 1 June | Climate change: the city solution
  • 25 May | Beirut normal
  • 18 May | Kinetic city: designing for informality in Mumbai
2009
  • 17 November | Cities, design and climate change
  • 14 October | Urban technologies and the environment
  • 27 April | Architecture as investment
2008
  • 18 November | The politics of mobility
  • 21 October | London in a global context
 

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