Lunchtime Lecture: Barricade and Beacon: design for protest

Join Nick Newman, founding partner of architecture practice Studio Bark and author of Protest Architecture: Structures of Resistance (RIBA Publishing, 2024) and Sandy Jones, Assistant Curator, Architecture and Urbanism for a talk about design for protest. Through a series of international case studies, they will show how architects and designers are using their skills to design visible, safe and effective protest structures. They will introduce their display, Barricade and Beacon, which features two such structures: Barricade, made from U-Build units and Beacon, a tensegrity protest tower fabricated from bamboo and based on designs by Extinction Rebellion. The talk will end with the six-minute film, ‘Design for Protest’ produced by Dillon Parsons. Presented by the V&A+RIBA Architecture Partnership, the installation is a collaboration with London-based architects Studio Bark and coincides with the publication by founding member, Nick Newman.

Nick Newman is a Founder of Studio Bark and U-Build. Nick is an architect who's experience spans environmental architecture, climate activism, building performance evaluation and deep energy retrofits. He is author of RIBA title 'Protest Architecture: Structures of Civil Resistance', 2024, co-author of 'Everything Needs to Change: Architecture and the Climate Emergency', 2021 and was named a ‘Rising Sustainability Star’ by Building magazine.

 
Sandy Jones is Assistant Curator, Architecture and Urbanism and curator of Barricade and Beacon presented by the V&A/RIBA Partnership for the 2024 London Design Festival. She co-curated the exhibitions, The New Line: Works from the Jobbing Printing Collection and The People’s Pavilion: Our First 80 years at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea. She has published research on a range of topics including the work and collecting practices of typographer, Jan Tschichold.