AHRA PhD Symposium 2026
8:30 am Monday 29 June 2026 – 5:30 pm Tuesday 30 June 2026
En Chantiers: Field Notes in Progress
Research in the architectural humanities rarely moves in a straight line. It develops through fragments of observation, incomplete archives, tentative sketches, unexpected encounters, and reflections that may never make their way into a finished thesis or publication.
This PhD symposium, En Chantiers: Field Notes in Progress, foregrounds the provisional and the unfinished as productive spaces of inquiry. By placing emphasis on field notes; broadly understood as the marks, traces, and records of ongoing research, this symposium invites doctoral students to reflect on how knowledge is gathered, tested, and re-shaped in practice.
The symposium is led by the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA).
Event details
Monday 29 – Tuesday 30 June 2026
Peter Cook: Wonder Hub, Bank Plain
08:30-17:30
Panels will be held in-person across three locations – Norwich (UK), Delft (Netherlands) and Sétif (Algeria), and live-streamed to the other two locations. Each day also has one workshop session, with three parallel workshops held in the three locations.
Participation is free, and lunch and refreshments will be provided. Places are limited, so please register your place by Thursday 25 June.
Register here (opens in a new window)Norwich Programme
A detailed programme with paper titles and presenters can be downloaded from the event website.
| Monday 29 June | |
|---|---|
| 08:30-09:00 | Welcome, coffee and pastries |
| 09:00-10:30 | Panel 1-D: Landscapes and Materials (streaming Delft) |
| 10:30-12:00 | Panel 2-N: Care and Situated Practice (in-person) |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:30 | Panel 3-D: Industry, Labour and Resistance (streaming Delft) |
| 14:30-16:00 | Panel 4-S: Materialising Memory (streaming Sétif) |
| 16:00-16:30 | Tea break |
| 16:30-17:30 | Workshop 7-N: Media and Place (in-person) |
| 17:30-19:00 | Drinks reception |
| Tuesday 30 June | |
|---|---|
| 08:00-08:30 | Welcome, coffee and pastries |
| 08:30-10:00 | Panel 8-D: Communities and Divagations (streaming Delft) |
| 10:00-11:00 | Workshop 11-N: Intimacy and Space (in-person) |
| 11:00-12:30 | Panel 12-S: Positionality and Surveying Practices (streaming Sétif) |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 | Panel 13-N: Imaging and Knowing (in-person) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Panel 14-D: Remaking the Archive (streaming Delft) |
| 17:00-17:30 | Concluding remarks |
