This was noted in a comment to a previous post, an event likely to be of interest to people in London – an evening workshop on 14th March 2013, organised by Expanded Territories. Full details here.

Architecture, urbanism and geology are deeply interconnected.  In creating conditions of habitability, our species has responded to, reorganized, transported and reshuffled earth materials to such an extent that new geological conditions have emerged, many of which will play out for thousands, if not millions of years. We have radically transformed the earth’s geomorphology, its surface, its atmosphere and its climate. Large cities are hotspots in this geological transformation. They are sites where materials that took slow and powerful earth forces millions of years to create have been intensified and where powerful new geological forces have been unleashed. This seminar proposes to examine some of these processes at work in London.
Venue: M204, Westminster University, Marylebone Campus

Participants: Lindsay Bremner, Director of Architectural Research, University of Westminster; Nick Beech, Architectural Historian, University of Westminster; Diana Clements, London Geodiversity Partnership; David Dernie, Dean, Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster; Simon Phillips, Construction Logistics Manager, Crossrail Project.