27-31 October
PROGRAMME
Inscriptive Practices
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We are thrilled to welcome Professor Perry Kulper back to the Manchester School of Architecture for a week-long series of talks, workshops, and conversations under the title Rare Breeds and Other Species. This is a packed week of drawing, thinking, and making — featuring guests Emma-Kate Matthews, Ephraim Joris, Thomas Parker, and Bea Martin — each exploring new territories of architectural imagination and representation. Check out the full programme below and book your space — seats are limited, and you do not want to miss this extraordinary week of experimentation, curiosity, and creative exchange.
MONDAY 27
EVENING LECTURE
FRIDAY 31
WEDNESDAY 29
TUESDAY 28
THURSDAY 30
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MONDAY 27
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MORNING SESSION | STUDIO C
11:00 - 12:30 Perry Kulper in the IP Lab
Join us in the IP Lab, Studio C, to welcome Visiting Professor Perry Kulper — for biscuits and an informal conversation about ideas, drawings, and everything in between.
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AFTERNOON SESSION | STUDIO C
14:00 - 16:30 Pedagogical Conversations
Join Perry, Ephraim, and Bea for a conversation on architectural education — exploring the ideas, practices, and representations that shape the making of architects. The discussion will reflect on how we learn, draw, and think architecturally, and on the evolving role of the portfolio as a reflective and projective tool in design learning.
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TUESDAY 28
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MORNING SESSION | MTC 2.22
11:00 - 12:30 Drawing the Inarchitectural: Monophorosis and the Dissected Body
Ephraim joins Perry for a conversation on drawing and the body as a site of inscription. Drawing from his own practice, Ephraim will discuss speculative and anatomical approaches where human, animal, and architectural forms merge through acts of unmaking and emergence.
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LUNCH | MTC 2.22
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch with Perry + Ephraim + BEA
Informal conversations . . . bring a drink, we will get the pizza!
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AFTERNOON SESSION | MTC 2.22
14:00 - 16:30 Pedagogies of transformation: The body as spatial instrument
Join Ephraim, Bea, and Perry for a conversation on architectural education — exploring the ideas, practices, and representations that shape the formation of architects, including reflections on portfolios and their evolving role in learning.
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WEDNESDAY 29
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MORNING SESSION | MTC 2.17
11:00 - 12:30 Thesis Constructions
Perry and Emma discuss key components for constructing a thesis through frameworks such as I Could Imagines, Entourage, and Mechanics of Engagement. The conversation explores ways of thinking that invite curiosity — from living aquatic technologies and material computation to queer and mythological ecologies — toward alternative social diagrams and architectural formations.
BOOK A SEAT
AFTERNOON SESSION | Cinema Room LW308 (Was BZ308 )
14:00 - 16:30 Resonant Bodies in Spatiosonic Fields
Join us for an afternoon talk with Dr Emma-Kate Matthews, exploring spatiosonic practice — an experimental mode of working between architecture, music, and sound art. Drawing from her creative research, Emma-Kate will discuss how sound can both articulate and be articulated by space, and how drawing, modelling, and making inform this expanded field. The session includes audio-visual excerpts and demonstrations of ongoing works, including her Resonant Bodies — custom-made fork- and bell-like instruments used to explore harmonic structures and ‘tune ideas’. The talk concludes with a conversation on experimental and transdisciplinary practice, and how sonic methods can expand our understanding of architectural space beyond the visual and measurable.space
EVENTBRITE
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THURSDAY 30
BACK TO START
MORNING SESSION | MTC 2.22
11:00 - 12:30 Speculative Assemblies
Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s idea that “there is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion,” Bea's talk explores how drawing can move beyond architectural canons to become a living, transformative process — where meaning is constructed, altered, and experienced. Through visual constructs that blur the line between representation and materialisation, the work embraces strangeness as a vital source of depth, invention, and unexpected architectural expression.
BOOK A SEAT
LUNCH | MTC 2.22
13:00 - 14:00 BROWN BAG Lunch with Perry & BEA
Bring your lunch for an informal conversation.
AFTERNOON SESSION | MTC 2.22
14:00 - 16:30 Conceptual Catalysts
This conversation frames a series of provocative phrases to expand how we think and talk about architecture — using the suggestive capacities of language as a pre-spatial form of design. Themes such as material and fabrication, atmosphere, change and flux, multiple temporalities, duration, conceptual thinking, and architectural drawing will serve as catalysts for an open and exploratory discussion.
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THURSDAY 30
BACK TO START
EVENING LECTURE | 5:30 - 7pm | Lowry Building 403
6 (+1) Characters in Search of an (Amateur) Author(s)
Loosely inspired by Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, Perry Kulper’s lecture, 6 (+1) Characters in Search of an (Amateur) Author(s), explores the metaphorical organs that nourish his creative and teaching practice. These include language prompts, analogous thinking, tailored visualisations, and heterogeneous ideas — conceptual tools that sustain an agile, diverse, and exploratory approach to design.Through these organs, Kulper investigates how architectural thinking can be enriched by different “speeds of working,” by play between languages of architecture and visualisation, and by embracing uncertainty as a productive space for invention. In addition to sharing a range of work, the talk will focus on the David’s Island Strategic Plot, unpacking how influences, intuition, and speculative acts contribute to a spatial and pedagogical practice aimed at enlarging the cultural imaginary.
EVENTBRITE
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FRIDAY 31
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MORNING SESSION | MTC 2.22
11:00 - 12:30 Design(ed)(ing) Methods
Perry and Thomas discuss one of the most undertaught characteristics of design education, this conversation will unfold 14 diverse design methods framing them and showing student work examples. This knowledge is paramount to deeper understanding of how we work. Followed by Thomas Parker’s Introduction to Noise-like Fields — a 30-minute talk drawing from his PhD research, exploring the relationship between image, imagination, and artificial intelligence, and what these evolving conditions might mean for drawing practices. This session sets the stage for his afternoon workshop.
BOOK A SEAT
AFTERNOON SESSION | MTC 2.22
14:00 - 16:30 Dissonant Assemblages WORKSHOP
Thomas's workshop explores the relationship between drawing, imaging, and AI modelling — asking how drawings operate within intelligent systems and what new forms of authorship and materiality emerge. Framed through alternative digital pedagogies, the session invites participants to rethink the language and agency of drawings composed through artificial means, engaging hands-on with the dissonant intersections of human intention, machine learning, and visual imagination.
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27-31 October
PROGRAMME
Inscriptive Practices
START HERE
BACK TO START
We are thrilled to welcome Professor Perry Kulper back to the Manchester School of Architecture for a week-long series of talks, workshops, and conversations under the title Rare Breeds and Other Species. This is a packed week of drawing, thinking, and making — featuring guests Emma-Kate Matthews, Ephraim Joris, Thomas Parker, and Bea Martin — each exploring new territories of architectural imagination and representation. Check out the full programme below and book your space — seats are limited, and you do not want to miss this extraordinary week of experimentation, curiosity, and creative exchange.
MONDAY 27
EVENING LECTURE
FRIDAY 31
WEDNESDAY 29
TUESDAY 28
THURSDAY 30
GO TO PAGE
GO TO PAGE
GO TO PAGE
GO TO PAGE
GO TO PAGE
GO TO PAGE
MONDAY 27
BACK TO START
MORNING SESSION | STUDIO C
11:00 - 12:30 Perry Kulper in the IP Lab
Join us in the IP Lab, Studio C, to welcome Visiting Professor Perry Kulper — for biscuits and an informal conversation about ideas, drawings, and everything in between.
BOOK A SEAT
AFTERNOON SESSION | STUDIO C
14:00 - 16:30 Pedagogical Conversations
Join Perry, Ephraim, and Bea for a conversation on architectural education — exploring the ideas, practices, and representations that shape the making of architects. The discussion will reflect on how we learn, draw, and think architecturally, and on the evolving role of the portfolio as a reflective and projective tool in design learning.
BOOK A SEAT
TUESDAY 28
BACK TO START
MORNING SESSION | MTC 2.22
11:00 - 12:30 Drawing the Inarchitectural: Monophorosis and the Dissected Body
Ephraim joins Perry for a conversation on drawing and the body as a site of inscription. Drawing from his own practice, Ephraim will discuss speculative and anatomical approaches where human, animal, and architectural forms merge through acts of unmaking and emergence.
BOOK A SEAT
LUNCH | MTC 2.22
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch with Perry + Ephraim + BEA
Informal conversations . . . bring a drink, we will get the pizza!
BOOK A SEAT
AFTERNOON SESSION | MTC 2.22
14:00 - 16:30 Pedagogies of transformation: The body as spatial instrument
Join Ephraim, Bea, and Perry for a conversation on architectural education — exploring the ideas, practices, and representations that shape the formation of architects, including reflections on portfolios and their evolving role in learning.
BOOK A SEAT
WEDNESDAY 29
BACK TO START
MORNING SESSION | MTC 2.17
11:00 - 12:30 Thesis Constructions
Perry and Emma discuss key components for constructing a thesis through frameworks such as I Could Imagines, Entourage, and Mechanics of Engagement. The conversation explores ways of thinking that invite curiosity — from living aquatic technologies and material computation to queer and mythological ecologies — toward alternative social diagrams and architectural formations.
BOOK A SEAT
AFTERNOON SESSION | Cinema Room LW308 (Was BZ308 )
14:00 - 16:30 Resonant Bodies in Spatiosonic Fields
Join us for an afternoon talk with Dr Emma-Kate Matthews, exploring spatiosonic practice — an experimental mode of working between architecture, music, and sound art. Drawing from her creative research, Emma-Kate will discuss how sound can both articulate and be articulated by space, and how drawing, modelling, and making inform this expanded field. The session includes audio-visual excerpts and demonstrations of ongoing works, including her Resonant Bodies — custom-made fork- and bell-like instruments used to explore harmonic structures and ‘tune ideas’. The talk concludes with a conversation on experimental and transdisciplinary practice, and how sonic methods can expand our understanding of architectural space beyond the visual and measurable.space
EVENTBRITE
BOOK A SEAT
THURSDAY 30
BACK TO START
MORNING SESSION | MTC 2.22
11:00 - 12:30 Speculative Assemblies
Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s idea that “there is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion,” Bea's talk explores how drawing can move beyond architectural canons to become a living, transformative process — where meaning is constructed, altered, and experienced. Through visual constructs that blur the line between representation and materialisation, the work embraces strangeness as a vital source of depth, invention, and unexpected architectural expression.
BOOK A SEAT
LUNCH | MTC 2.22
13:00 - 14:00 BROWN BAG Lunch with Perry & BEA
Bring your lunch for an informal conversation.
AFTERNOON SESSION | MTC 2.22
14:00 - 16:30 Conceptual Catalysts
This conversation frames a series of provocative phrases to expand how we think and talk about architecture — using the suggestive capacities of language as a pre-spatial form of design. Themes such as material and fabrication, atmosphere, change and flux, multiple temporalities, duration, conceptual thinking, and architectural drawing will serve as catalysts for an open and exploratory discussion.
BOOK A SEAT
THURSDAY 30
BACK TO START
EVENING LECTURE | 5:30 - 7pm | Lowry Building 403
6 (+1) Characters in Search of an (Amateur) Author(s)
Loosely inspired by Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, Perry Kulper’s lecture, 6 (+1) Characters in Search of an (Amateur) Author(s), explores the metaphorical organs that nourish his creative and teaching practice. These include language prompts, analogous thinking, tailored visualisations, and heterogeneous ideas — conceptual tools that sustain an agile, diverse, and exploratory approach to design.Through these organs, Kulper investigates how architectural thinking can be enriched by different “speeds of working,” by play between languages of architecture and visualisation, and by embracing uncertainty as a productive space for invention. In addition to sharing a range of work, the talk will focus on the David’s Island Strategic Plot, unpacking how influences, intuition, and speculative acts contribute to a spatial and pedagogical practice aimed at enlarging the cultural imaginary.
EVENTBRITE
BOOK YOUR SEAT
FRIDAY 31
BACK TO START
MORNING SESSION | MTC 2.22
11:00 - 12:30 Design(ed)(ing) Methods
Perry and Thomas discuss one of the most undertaught characteristics of design education, this conversation will unfold 14 diverse design methods framing them and showing student work examples. This knowledge is paramount to deeper understanding of how we work. Followed by Thomas Parker’s Introduction to Noise-like Fields — a 30-minute talk drawing from his PhD research, exploring the relationship between image, imagination, and artificial intelligence, and what these evolving conditions might mean for drawing practices. This session sets the stage for his afternoon workshop.
BOOK A SEAT
AFTERNOON SESSION | MTC 2.22
14:00 - 16:30 Dissonant Assemblages WORKSHOP
Thomas's workshop explores the relationship between drawing, imaging, and AI modelling — asking how drawings operate within intelligent systems and what new forms of authorship and materiality emerge. Framed through alternative digital pedagogies, the session invites participants to rethink the language and agency of drawings composed through artificial means, engaging hands-on with the dissonant intersections of human intention, machine learning, and visual imagination.
BOOK A SEAT