Royal Academy Of Arts

Catch up with this discussion exploring how architecture is sensitive to time – from the intimately felt rhythms of the body, changeable urban currents, or slow everyday practices that influence how we experience architecture spatially, to the ways in which the physicality of a building, city or landscape is altered over time. Speakers: Steve Chance – architect, founder of Chance De Silva, a practice set up to explore the possibilities of architecture in interaction with other participants. Their recent collaboration with Scanner, Vex House, has been shortlisted for the AJ House of the Year Award. Carol Mavor – writer, academic, and filmmaker who has published widely on photography, cinema, colour and childhood. She is the author of the film Fairy Tale Still Almost Blue which will also be screened during the event. Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) – artist working on the experimental terrain between sound and space. Active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, Scanner has scored a number

Catch up with this panel discussion exploring the impact of digital technologies on architecture, and the questions this raises for cities and society. Speakers: Kate Davies and Liam Young (Unknown Fields) – a nomadic design studio that ventures out on expeditions to the ends of the earth; to bear witness to alternative worlds, alien landscapes, industrial ecologies and precarious wilderness Lara Lesmes – architect, teacher at the Architectural Association, and co-director of Space Popular Alastair Parvin – strategic designer, civic entrepreneur, 00; co-founder, Wikihouse Foundation Edwin Heathcote (chair) – architecture and design critic, Financial Times; editor, Reading Design Respondents: Anna Puigjaner – architect, tutor at the RCA, and co-founder of MAIO studio, commissioned to design the first project at the Architecture Studio as part of the RA's Invisible Landscapes installation.

Catch up with this talk from architect and engineer Carlo Ratti, discussing how the layers of networks and digital information in urban space are radically transforming how we understand and design cities.

Catch up with this discussion on architecture in outer space, in which a panel of experts explores the questions extra-terrestrial living raises for technology as an industry and humanity as a whole. Speakers: Rachel Armstrong – professor of Experimental Architecture at Newcastle University, and author of Star Ark: A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship Irene Gallou – Head of the Specialist Modelling Group at Foster+Partners Jorge Mañes Rubio – artist at the Advanced Concepts Team, European Space Agency (ESA) and designer of The Moon Temple Victor Buchli (chair) – Professor of Material Culture, UCL; author of An Archaeology of the Immaterial; editor of Home Cultures

Catch up with this in-depth discussion about the often overlooked work of the Danish architect, educator and writer Kay Fisker and find out more about his revolutionary contribution to housing design.

Catch up with this talk by Robin Simon, editor of the new book ‘The Royal Academy: History and Collections’, as he reveals the inside story of Johan Zoffany’s 1772 masterpiece.

Catch up with this talk by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures at the Royal Collection, as he discusses 'Charles I (Le Roi à la chasse)'. The painting is one of the most emphatically understated of Van Dyck’s royal portraits, yet one of the most significant in Charles I’s collection.

Catch up with this talk by Dr Nicholas Tromans, Curator of Watts Gallery, to hear about one of the most ambitious and dramatic sculptures of the 19th century.

Catch up with a talk from architect Matthias Kohler as he discusses the work of his practice Gramazio Kohler, how we are approaching a digital building culture, and his work combining architectural design with robotic technology and innovative material research.

Catch up with this panel discussion exploring how architecture can help to create inclusive, liveable, and socially aware cities that embrace the full gender spectrum in an age of robotisation.

Catch up with a talk from Annette Wickham, Curator of Works on Paper at the RA, uncovering the militant campaigns, changing attitudes and evolution of the professional female artist.

Catch up on this conversation between Sarah Pickstone and poet and playwright Rommi Smith as they discuss Pickstone’s latest painting installation and her research into the life and work of Angelica Kauffman RA.

Catch up with this panel discussion from artists Sutapa Biswas, Jessy Jetpacks and Zadie Xa as they discuss how they use moving image in their art and its potential for structural change. Chaired by broadcaster, film-maker and journalist Bidisha.

Catch up on an evening of short fiction written and read by Man Booker Prize-winning author Graham Swift, including his short story 'Haematology' from his critically acclaimed collection 'England & Other Stories'.

Catch up with this talk from Dr Fiona Bradley, Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, as she discusses one of Dalí’s most famous and best loved paintings in the context of the artist's iconography of Port Lligat (the landscape of his home), Gala (his wife) and above all – himself.

Catch up with this talk exploring how the aesthetics of architecture are shaped in response to gender issues. Speakers: Andrés Jaque – architect and founder of the Office for Political Innovation, Professor at Columbia University and Visiting Professor at Princeton University Nina Power – philosopher and cultural critic, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Roehampton, and author of One-Dimensional Woman and many articles on European philosophy, politics and culture

Catch up with a talk from curator Per Rumberg as he introduces the significant artists and masterpieces in our exhibition reuniting the extraordinary art collection of Charles I.

Catch up on this talk, exploring how 20th century artists have used eroticism in their work, and why it continues to challenge viewers and provoke controversy today. Speakers: Dr Alyce Mahon, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art History, University of Cambridge, is a specialist in modern and contemporary art and their erotic politics. Rowan Pelling, editor of The Amorist and former editor of The Erotic Review. Adham Faramawy, artist and RA Schools alumnus. Dr Shahidha Bari, Senior Lecturer in Romanticism, Queen Mary University of London & Fellow of Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics

Catch up with critically acclaimed actress Lisa Dwan reading from ‘Foirades/Fizzles’ by Samuel Beckett, a unique collection of short prose published in collaboration with Jasper Johns in 1972. Please note that for copyright reasons, we have only included a short excerpt of Lisa Dwan's reading of ‘Foirades/Fizzles’.

Catch up with out event exploring architectural fictions and allegories. From the surrealist references in early OMA Manhattan drawings, to Bernard Tschumi’s 'Advertisements for Architecture' and the science fiction landscapes in the work of Lebbeus Woods, architects have used this approach to reveal the contradictory nature of the world and to question reality itself. This event brought together different practitioners whose work is imbued with poetry, art and symbolic meaning. This event was inspired by the fictional landscapes in our Dalí / Duchamp exhibition. Speakers: Sam Jacob – architect, columnist, design critic; principal of Sam Jacob Studio Neil Spiller – founding Director of the AVATAR Group; the Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, London; author of Surrealism and Architecture – A Blistering Romance Peter Wilson – architect; co-founder and director of Bolles+Wilson Niall Hobhouse – art collector, writer, trustee of Drawing Ma