THE WAPPING PROJECT & THE ICARUS PROJECT, EAST LONDON
Saturday 20 August 2013
Accompanied by Pimms, the smell of magnolias, a cushion in the garden, and assured sunshine, talk ranges across a thousand ideas:
Tickets for each afternoon (including a glass of Pimms) £12.00.
14.00-15.00
BABY TALK: HOW MONARCHY INFANTILISES US ALL
Joan Smith is a columnist, novelist, human rights activist – and a Classicist
15.30-16.30
BROOKLYNBRIDGE: THE GREAT EAST RIVER BRIDGE AND WAGNER’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE MAN WHO BUILT IT.
Erica Wagner is an author and is the Literary Editor of The Times
17.00-18.00
ETERNITY IS OVERRATED: THE USES OF TIME IN ARCHITECTURE
Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer and author of Why We Build:
power and desire in architecture