Psychoanalysis and… continues its series of events connecting psychoanalysis, culture, and society, with a critical workshop and lecture on the crossroads between identity, architecture, and urban spaces. Professor Jane Rendell will join us for a double event—a workshop and a talk—to discuss spatial practice, interdisciplinarity, and the complexities inherent to the social, material, and subjective spaces we inhabit in the current world.

Jane Rendell is professor of Critical Spatial Practice at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where she co-initiated and teaches on the new MA Situated Practice, as well as the MA Architectural History. At UCL, Rendell has been Director of Architectural Research (2004-11), Vice Dean of Research (2010-13), and Director of Architectural History and Theory (2015-8). Currently, as Director of the Bartlett’s Ethics Commission, Rendell curates an online open access education tool-kit called practisingethics.org, which supports ethical practice in architectural and urban research. Rendell is also on the Editorial Board for GeoHumanities, Architectural Theory Review, ARQ (Architectural Research Quarterly), The Happy Hypocrite, and the Journal of Visual Culture in Britain. She was a member of the AHRC Peer Review College (2004–2008) and inaugural chair of the RIBA President’s Awards for Research (2005–2007). In 2006, Rendell was a research fellow at CRASSH (Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) at the University of Cambridge and received an honorary degree from the University College of the Creative Arts

A few words on Psychoanalysis and Architecture

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About the Psychoanalysis and… series

From literary to film studies, from political sciences and cultural analysis to queer and postcolonial perspectives, psychoanalysis has long provided a wealth of concepts and analytical perspectives to address issues at the core of our changing societies and culture. Not only has the psychoanalytic work put furth by Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, or Wilfred Bion addressed the subject constitutive role of society and culture, but also the work of Teresa de Lauretis, Homi K. Bhabha, and Slavoj Žižek has engaged with psychoanalysis as a means to contest and rethink our fields of knowledge and academic boundaries.

The psychoanalysis and… series aim at continuing with this boundary breaking—a breaking of academic, artistic, activist, social boundaries—by organizing talks, symposia, and roundtable discussions in which psychoanalysis is brought to the arena of our changing contemporary world. Different schools of psychoanalysis, different academic disciplines, and different artistic and activist perspectives will be drawn into a conversation aimed at rethinking the world around us. For this, we invite scholars, researchers, students, but also artist, activists, and anyone interested in the different topics that will be addressed in the series to join us in our different events.

ECTs: 1 or 2 (1 ECT for attending the workshop and screening, doing the assigned readings, and sending questions in advance; 1 additional ETC for submitting a 2,000 word essay on the topics addressed after the event)