A Focus on the Ermine Estate
Tuesday 14 January, 3:00 – 4:00pm
Nicola De La Haye Building, University of Lincoln, Room NDH1010
The opening lecture, A Focus on the Ermine Estate, will be delivered by Historian and Geographer Dr Andrew Jackson of Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU). Andrew has been a key figure in the development of Urban Form: Social Architecture & The Commons, the current phase of activity at Mansions of the Future. Click here to book.
Environment and Community Workshop
Tuesday 21 January, 3:00 – 5:00pm
Mansions of the Future
The RESOLVE Collective are an interdisciplinary design collective based in Brixton, London who use collaboration and co-production to unpick multi-scalar social challenges. RESOLVE will deliver a hands-on workshop, providing an informal environment to consider neighbourliness and wellbeing when using architectural design and method. Click here to book.
Discussion Panel
Tuesday 28 January, 3:00 – 5:00pm
Nicola De La Haye Building, University of Lincoln, Room NDH1010
Join us for a panel discussion moderated by a member of the Lincoln School of Architecture, featuring speakers including Dr Ian Waites of the Lincoln School of Design, Dr Jamileh Manoochehri, a Senior Lecturer at the Leicester School of Architecture and the final panellist will be a member of the RESOLVE team. Click here to book.
Social Housing & Sustainable Futures is a short programme of open lectures, discussions and workshops developed by Mansions of the Future in association with Lincoln School of Architecture and the Built Environment. The series takes as its starting point the legacy of social housing developments defined by democratic ideals, such as Lincoln’s Ermine Estate and considers how a number of large-scale housing projects – intended to strengthen the social fabric – have over the years become neglected by the local authorities that built them (often due to funding cuts or reduced resources). Changes which have since led to such developments memorialising the by-gone planning incentive of British post and interwar housing.
In the case of the Ermine Estate, the economic profile of residents has been negatively affected by shifts in industry and slashes to local social and community services and public spaces. Institutional withdrawal diminishes support structures for local communities prompting volunteering initiates to re-engage residents. Whilst the virtues and intentions of voluntary action are extremely positive we must ask, is this a sustainable model of community care?
Prompted by these considerations this programme will ask if council housing can sustain itself after institutional withdrawal (a side effect of austerity and wider government cuts) and question how the residents’ sense of wellbeing is affected by declining community resources? We will also discuss the unconventional methods of creativity being used in designing and building homes as well as private, public and common spaces.
Social Housing & Sustainable Futures is part of Urban Form: Social Architecture & The Commons – a four month programme of activity, presented by Mansions of the Future which intends to engage artists, architects, academics and local citizens in conversation and debate around the past, present and future of Lincoln’s social and civic life, within the context of the local built environment.
– Dr Andrew Jackson is a Historian and Geographer and is the Head of Research at BGU. Andrew’s current research interests include twentieth-century urban and rural change, and local and regional history. He also engages in consultancy and project work relating to public history and heritage, and digitisation. Andrew joined the staff of Bishop Grosseteste University in 2007, following ten years at the University of Exeter.
– Dr Jamileh Manoochehri is a registered architect with nearly twenty years’ experience designing and managing projects in practices including renowned and prize-winning firms such as Short and Associates, CGHP Architects (now split and operating under different names) and commercial practices such as Chapman Taylor’s and HTA Architects.
– Dr Ian Waites has taught across various schools of Art, Architecture and Design in Lincoln since 1995. His research interests centre on post-WW2 landscapes, sense of place and memory and is currently interested in the relationship between post-war ‘modernist’ planning and the principles of eighteenth-century Picturesque theory, and the use of the ‘Radburn Idea’ in the design of 1960s and 70s council estates.
– RESOLVE Collective is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. Collaboration and co-production is a critical part of their ethos stating it as the first step towards realising more equitable visions of change and the ultimate attempt to bridge the gaps between a multitude of groups and communities, providing a platform for the production of new knowledge and ideas.