Title: Designing Spaces for Thought : Antony Gormley, Professor Richard Sennett, Neven Sidor
Location: LSE, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Description: LSE Literary Weekend/ Urban Age panel discussion - Free Event
Start Time: 11.30
Date: 2009-02-28

By exploring the experiential and social impacts of creating spaces for public engagement, contemplation and education - including the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square and the LSE’s New Academic Building - an artist, an architect and a sociologist discuss the intellectual practice of ‘designing spaces for thought’.

Antony Gormley is an award winning British sculptor.  Over the last 25 years he has revitalised the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool and material.

Richard Sennett was born in Chicago in 1943. Richard Sennett is currently centennial professor of Sociology at LSE and Bemis professor of Social Sciences at MIT.

Neven Sidor is a partner in Grimshaw Architects, who designed LSE’s New Academic Building.