{"title": "What is the scale of the estate?: Towards a trans-scalar sense of place", "start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T14:00:00Z", "place": "Department of Geography", "address": "Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/housing"], "description": "A seminar in the UCL Human Geography Seminar Series, open to staff, students and visitors. Professor Steven Pile of the Open University examines the social housing estate as a dynamic site of spatial negotiation, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, participatory mapping and a public art intervention on the Hilgrove Estate in north London. His co-authored paper argues that estates are neither purely hyper-local nor borderless, proposing a framework of trans-scalarity to capture how boundedness and openness coexist in everyday estate life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-is-the-scale-of-the-estate-towards-a-trans-scalar-sense-89040/", "official_url": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/events/2026/nov/what-scale-estate-towards-trans-scalar-sense-place", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T14:00:00Z", "place": "Department of Geography", "address": "Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The ecologies of the marginalised, everyday socio-environmental struggles in São Paulo’s peripheries", "start": "2026-11-12T14:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T16:00:00Z", "place": "Development Planning Unit, UCL", "address": "Tavistock Square 34, WC1H 9EZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society"], "description": "A talk in the DPU Dialogues in Development series about everyday socio-environmental struggles in the peripheries of São Paulo, at the intersection of housing exclusion and environmental crisis. 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Also screened is 'Taking over King's Land' (2014, 23 mins) by Gillian McIver, following Nazir Tanbouli as he battles weather, vandalism and lack of funds to create a massive mural installation across a condemned housing estate in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics. The evening includes a free-flowing conversation around the Talkaoke table, with refreshments provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/estate-a-reverie-film-screenings-talkaoke-part-of-estate-tal-39535/", "official_url": "https://thepeoplespeak.org.uk/event/film-screenings-talkaoke-part-of-estate-talks/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ed5d15bcca3ae42ca1b5995bfc0f6e8dfd00147cc3502068b60943d1b51d117-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The power of place: how where you live shapes your health", "start": "2026-11-06T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/health", "wellness"], "description": "The power of place: how where you live shapes your health is a free interactive event open to everyone. 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The community-led programme includes trans+ 2000s themed screenings curated and hosted by TGirlsOnFilm, trans+ poetry readings with Gayathiri Kamalakanthan and Danni Spooner, a trans+ artists and makers market, a panel talk led by Trans Action for Housing Justice, and a cabaret with Major Dom, Jet Moon, Laz Lighning and Cyro.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/changing-rooms-celebrating-trans-domesticities-37223/", "official_url": "https://museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/changing-rooms-celebrating-trans-domesticities/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/54df97b475ae986c96fdd485ca6580a986a892b690439bffe55929fa26aa7aef-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Transnational Diaries: a conversation across borders", "start": "2026-11-06T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration"], "description": "Transnational Diaries: a conversation across borders is an interdisciplinary roundtable held in and around the Transnational Diaries exhibition at the Peltz Gallery at Birkbeck. 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Participants are invited to consider how public space holds multiple histories and to share their own memories and reflections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/walking-tour-mapping-histories-of-migration-community-and-pu-35044/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/walking-tour-mapping-histories-of-migration-community-and-public-art-with-kuda-mushangi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74d0ddaf428855060e861a2ad69f00fcdd7dcec0e4f8cfaea29d498f5555acf3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Building Common Ground Talks", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St. Mary-Le-Bow", "address": "Cheapside, EC2V 6AU London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism"], "description": "Building Common Ground Talks is a weekly series of short talks and conversations exploring issues affecting the City and wider society. Each week brings a different speaker and perspective. 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Participants tell the most compelling, well-evidenced story they can from real datasets, shaping policy briefs, dashboards and models. It is the fourth in a monthly series hosted by House London!, organised by Jam Coombes, with cash prizes voted by fellow hackers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/house-london-data-hackathon-41764/", "official_url": "https://luma.com/m3pbljlh", "image": "https://noky.io/images/195bd0beac3dddd84dd248791055543f14c7864ef15dfd5f0e416e17374a5f6c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Transnational Resistances", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/activism"], "description": "Transnational Resistances is a two-day symposium at Tate Modern rooted in artistic practices of transnational resistance and solidarity. It is organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor, in collaboration with IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and supported by the Irish and UK Governments. Artists and academics explore support networks, feminist methodologies, memory work, counter-archiving and embodied knowledge across communities resisting erasure. The Friday programme includes workshops, talks, a communal meal, an audiovisual intervention and a keynote in Starr Cinema and Clore Foyer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transnational-resistances-87905/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/transnational-resistances", "image": "https://noky.io/images/95b14b0c428d32be58e657aa555606139f1b05612c7b1a26c2f664211fdb1632-1200.webp"}]}