Key details
Time
- 2:30pm – 5:30pm
Location
- Battersea
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Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building, 1 Hester Rd, London SW11 4AY
Price
- Free
Who can attend
- Everyone
Type
- Lecture
Philip Beesley is a pioneering artist working in sculpture, architecture, and couture. He is widely known for his immersive sentient installations. His installations were presented twice at the Venice Biennale for Architecture and are now touring Europe and Oceania. His collaborations with haute couture designer Iris van Herpen appear within 15 collections.
Beesley's research founded key parts of the rapidly emerging discipline of Living Architecture. His current research reveals fertile qualities at the boundary between mineral and organic realms including metastable and precarious systems. His publications offer paradigms, tools and frameworks that can support design of complex far-from-equilibrium systems. Beesley leads the interdisciplinary organisation Living Architecture Systems Group connecting sixty organisations and 150 member researchers.
He has contributed innovative curriculum frameworks across education and practice. A multi-year collaboration with TU Delft reaches across multiple departments and research groups. Awards distinguishing his collaborative work include the global ACADIA Design Excellence Award, the Prix de Rome, VIDA, FEIDAD, and two Governor General's awards for Architecture. The University of Waterloo awarded Beesley the singular title of University Professor in 2023.
For more information see: www.lasg.ca
Philip Beesley's Work
Hylozoic Ground, with essays by critics.
STEAM-based kits and component systems now in development with TU Delft.
Digital-Physical hybrid shadow projections currently in development.
