ABOUT THE TALK:

The focus will be on ‘effective temporal heritage(s)’ as indispensable tools in urban place design and as a catalyst for new and alternative forms of temporal place-making processes.

This presentation will show an alternative definition of urban place heritage(s) from everyday life. It does so by focusing on how ‘cultural identities of place’ are shaped by rhythmic assemblies of festivals, events, social and community practices and memory. 

Focus will be on how unique ‘temporal cultural identities of places’ can reflect traces of effective urban pasts, either collective (of nostalgia) or representing political and cultural conflicts along with how ‘temporalities and rhythms of nostalgia’ may be designed with unique forms of urban place-design and place-making processes. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Filipa Matos Wunderlich is a Lecturer in Urban Design and Programme Director of the MRes (Master of Research) in Interdisciplinary Urban Design at the Bartlett School, University College London (UCL). Filipa is also the coordinator of the MSc ‘research by design’ component - Major Research Projects module, in this school. 

Before working in academia, Wunderlich worked extensively as a chartered practitioner in architecture and urban design in the private sector in the Netherlands, namely at the international firm Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners.  Filipa trained as an architect at FAUP, University of Porto, Portugal, and TUDelft, Faculty of Architecture, University of Delft, The Netherlands, and also as a musician in the Conservatorium of ArtEZ Institute of Arts, in Zwolle, The Netherlands, before completing her PhD at the Bartlett, UCL. Her key research interests include temporality in urban places, urban rhythms and rhythm analysis, choreographies of places, place-making through design, sensory urbanism, the interface between urbanism, design, performance and film studies, and the interface between musical and urban aesthetics, society and culture in sustainable urban design as well as the design and use of new urban space typologies in the contemporary city. 

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