The Olympic Stadium as Home Live Online Session

The Olympic Stadium as Home: Architecture, Memory and Belonging online event with presentations on the theme of Olympic architecture.

Image: Olympic Studies Research Centre at UEL

The Olympic Stadium as Home Live Online Session

The Olympic Stadium as Home: Architecture, Memory and Belonging online event with presentations on the theme of Olympic architecture.

Wednesday 3rd June

1800 - 1930

Activity Type
Talk
Free
Audience
Built environment professionals
College and university students
Local residents

London is the first City to host the Summer Olympic Games three times. This event will bring together speakers Geraint John and Professor John Gold to discuss the Olympic architecture from a past, present and future perspective.

Geraint John will be on Olympic Stadia incorporating his work for the book Theatre of Dreams and the London 2012 Olympic Stadium.

Professor John Goldand Margaret Gold have kindly agreed to present on the subject of “Olympic arenas and post-games transformation: narrative, memory, belonging and London 2012.”

The Q&A will be chaired by Dr Deborah Benros, Cluster lead for Architecture at UEL.

Location

Online

This is a digital event

Captioned activity

This event will be hosted virtually through the Microsoft Teams platform. We will endeavour to make this event as accessible as possible on the day and we are also planning to record the event for posterity.

Image: Olympic Studies Research Centre at UEL

Free

Booking required

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