Soapbox is a weekly series delivering a curated set of lectures, talks and symposia concerning contemporary themes but explored through the archives of lectures past and present. With the plethora of lectures, talks, symposia and panels occurring world wide on a daily basis, how can we begin to keep up and if not, find them once they are gone? Soapbox looks to assemble a selection of recent, archived and outlier lectures surrounding a given theme. Soapbox looks to curate this never-ending library of ideas into an engaging and diverse list of thoughts and provocations. Soapbox is just that, a collection aimed at discovering the occasional needle in a haystack.

This week, we present, Aesthetics. 

1. “The Aesthetic Today” Jacques Rancière in Conversation with Mark Foster Gage (2015)

2. Francis Halsall "Object Oriented Aesthetics and the Re-Materialization of the Art Object" (2014)

3. “Aesthetics and the Progressive: Architecture and the State of the Contemporary” Panel (2015)

4. Slavoj Žižek Aesthetics and Architecture (2014)

5.  Aesthetics and Architecture, David Adjaye & Murat Tabanlioglu, Selale Kadak (2016)

6. Looking, Talking, Drawing, Doing : Bartlett International Lecture Series  // Peter Cook (2013)

7. Margaret McCurry Lecture: Ross Lovegrove (2016)

8. Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art (2017)

9. Closing Remarks “Aesthetic Activism” by David Ruy (2015)