Talks, Papers & Teaching

Laura has taken part in a number of lectures, talks and panel discussions. Her main topics are the architecture of Walmer Yard, curating in architecture, architectural education, architectural journalism, film making in architecture and sensory experience. She also created the Walmer Yard podcast Dialogue.

Selected conferences and papers

 

Casting Memory: Inside Walmer Yard
Lived Interiors Symposium, 2025

Bodily Memories: Exploring the experience of Walmer Yard through portraits of the body in space
AHRA: Body Matters, 2024

Casting to Care: The Walls of Walmer Yard
AHRA: Ecologies of Care, 2023

Touring Walmer Yard through the lens of Merleau-Ponty and Foucault
Thinkers for Architecture: Foucault/Merleau-Ponty/Latour, 2023

Selected talks

 

Bodily Memories: Exploring the experience of Walmer Yard through portraits of the body in space
Sheffield School of Architecture, November 2024

Decolonising the Museum
Sheffield School of Architecture, 2024 & 2025

RIBA Film Nights: Film shorts with Jim Stephenson
RIBA, July 2023

Women’s Work: London map launch
Part W, March 2023

Conceptualising the House Museum
Architecture Foundation, August 2022

Architectural News Journalism
New Architecture Writers, February 2021

Masterplanning for Equity and a Climate Emergency
Festival of Place, November 2020

Mind the Gap: The Chasm Between Architecture and Education
Negroni Talks, June 2019

Dodecannale: What is the Point of Architecture Biennales?
Architecture Foundation, April 2019

Selected teaching

 

First Year Co-Lead
Sheffield School of Architecture, 2021 - 2025

Module Lead Architectural Research Methods
Sheffield School of Architecture, 2024 - 2025

First Year Design Studio Tutor
Bartlett School of Architecture, 2020 - 2021

Dissertation Tutor
Greenwich School of Architecture, 2019 - 2021

Founder
Virtual Unit, 2020

Visiting Critic
Royal College of Art, 2020

Visiting Critic
Central St Martins, 2020

Media Studies Tutor
Bartlett School of Architecture, 2019 - 2020

Visiting Critic
Reading School of Architecture, 2019 - 2020

Visiting Critic
Umea School of Architecture, 2019

Unit Leader
Studio in the Woods, 2018

Cultural Contexts Visiting Tutor
Birmingham School of Architecture, 2018 - 2019

Visiting Critic
Welsh School of Architecture, 2018

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