Penny Lewis is a lecturer at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. She is a founding member of the AE Foundation (http://aefoundation.co.uk) and she writes for newspapers and architectural publications. Her work includes; Challenging Contextualism (2004) and Curious Rationalism (2006). She is co-author of In Defence of the Dome (1999), and contributed a chapter to Future of the Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated (2008). |
Style: In Defence of Metabolism (Machine Books 2016)
Life off Earth: are the aliens out there?
"Who would choose to go to a session on free will at 10:30 on a Sunday morning? A few hundred of the most engaged, passionate and discursive participants I have encountered. As a neuroscientist on the panel I felt my science was aired and challenged in exemplary fashion. As a passionate believer in engagement I couldn’t have been more delighted."
Daniel Glaser, head, special projects, public engagement, Wellcome Trust