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"The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read." Jacques Ellul
Now What Read is a reading group set up as part of Now What?
Now that there is more time available there is an opportunity to read more. However it can be difficult to know what to read, Now What Read aims to bring people together to both propose reading material and to read and discuss proposed material.
how it works
The group meets on Tuesday evenings in the boardroom at Richview at 7.30p.m. The material for each session will be posted here 1 week before. For the first few sessions the material will be proposed by invited guests. To ensure good discussion there will be a maximum of 10 people at each session.
If you would like to participate in Now What Read please email nowwhatread@gmail.com and introduce yourself. You will be put on a mailing list to keep you informed of the reading material each week.
By signing up to the mailing list, you do not have to attend every session, only the ones you choose.
If the material proposed is of interest to you, email me at nowwhatread@gmail.com to attend the discussion for that week (subject to max 10 people)
Even if the session is full for that week, I will keep you informed about future sessions via the mailing list.
If you would like to participate in Now What Read please email nowwhatread@gmail.com and introduce yourself. You will be put on a mailing list to keep you informed of the reading material each week.
By signing up to the mailing list, you do not have to attend every session, only the ones you choose.
If the material proposed is of interest to you, email me at nowwhatread@gmail.com to attend the discussion for that week (subject to max 10 people)
Even if the session is full for that week, I will keep you informed about future sessions via the mailing list.
what we're reading next
what we've read so far
- For (a) Theory (of architecture) by Sonit Bafna proposed by Dearbhla MacManus
- Theses on Feuerbach by Karl Marx proposed by Dearbhla MacManus
- Magazine Architecture: No Road, How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand, proposed by Dennis McNulty
- Architecture Without Architects - Another Anarchist Approach by Marion von Osten proposed by Dennis McNulty
- The Megacity Decoding the Chaos of Lagos by George Packer proposed by Dearbhla McManus / Hugh Campbell
- The Big Here and Long Now by Brian Eno, proposed by Nuala Flood
- Unthinkable Futures by Brian Eno, proposed by Nuala Flood
- TEDtalk Kevin Kelly on the next 5000 days of the web, proposed by Florian Leavy
- Traversing in Paris: Invisible City by Bruno Latour and Emilie Hermant proposed by Aideen English
- The Necessity of Distance Setting the Position for Critical Spatial Practice By Catharina Gabrielsson proposed by Dearbhla MacManus
- Lived Space: Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought By Juhani Pallasmaa proposed by Dearbhla MacManus
- 'The Conceptual Basis of Building Ethics' by Mustafa Pultar from 'Ethics and the Built Environment' ed Warwick Fox proposed by Paul Kenny
- Chapter 9 of "Environmental Philosophy" by Chistopher Belshaw proposed by Paul Kenny
- Chapter 2 of "Environmental Philosophy" by Chistopher Belshaw proposed by Paul Kenny
- Chapter 1 of "Environmental Philosophy" by Chistopher Belshaw proposed by Paul Kenny
- Extracts from Mervyn Wall, Leaves for the Burning, (London: Methuen, 1952), proposed by Ellen Rowley
- The Post-War Building Programme, Government White Paper, 1944, proposed by Ellen Rowley
- Overview of Ireland is Building, Local Government pamphlet, 1951,proposed by Ellen Rowley
- Editorial and letters from America, Architecture in Ireland. RIAI Yearbook, 1946, proposed by Ellen Rowley
- Extracts from The Handbook of National Planning and Reconstruction, Dublin 1944, proposed by Ellen Rowley
- Reclaiming the Commons by David Bollier proposed by Seoidin O'Sullivan
- The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention by James Corner proposed by Alan Mee
- Veiled works and blurred contexts by Mari Hvattum proposed by Hugh Campbell
other thoughts
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." Edmund Burke
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” P. J. O'Rourke
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx
other Now What? blogs
Now What Read is run by Dearbhla MacManus
UCD graduate 2005
UCD graduate 2005
Excellent idea Dearbhla,
ReplyDeleteI have read through the essay, and as an expertly chosen passage, I found it to be a succinct refresher on the polemic discourse of the last few years. Since graduating I have read the occasional journal, and whatever decent books Hodges & Figgis had in stock, but this was an excellent summary of what has been going on in the world of architectural theory; thank you for putting it forward as a position for a discussion to start from.
I will be unable to attend the reading session, but, I thoroughly commend the efforts being made by the now what? Group and I would love to contribute; I’ll put something together and post it on the blog.
Thank you for your comment Diarmuid! It would be great if you could come to a session or two, keep looking at the blog as you may be able to attend future sessions. Dearbhla
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