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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.

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Norwich Programme

A detailed programme with paper titles and presenters can be downloaded from the event website.

Monday 29 June 
08:30-09:00Welcome, coffee and pastries
09:00-10:30Panel 1-D: Landscapes and Materials (streaming Delft)
10:30-12:00Panel 2-N: Care and Situated Practice (in-person)
12:00-13:00Lunch
13:00-14:30Panel 3-D: Industry, Labour and Resistance (streaming Delft)
14:30-16:00Panel 4-S: Materialising Memory (streaming Sétif)
16:00-16:30Tea break
16:30-17:30 Workshop 7-N: Media and Place (in-person)
17:30-19:00 Drinks reception
Tuesday 30 June
08:00-08:30Welcome, coffee and pastries
08:30-10:00Panel 8-D: Communities and Divagations (streaming Delft)
10:00-11:00Workshop 11-N: Intimacy and Space (in-person)
11:00-12:30Panel 12-S: Positionality and Surveying Practices (streaming Sétif)
12:30-13:30Lunch
13:30-15:00Panel 13-N: Imaging and Knowing (in-person)
15:00-15:30Tea break
15:30-17:00Panel 14-D: Remaking the Archive (streaming Delft)
17:00-17:30Concluding remarks

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