Night Clubbing

This lecture will focus on the nightclub and its associated audiences and cultures, and the ways that clubs and music venues generate particular forms of social infrastructure.

The speakers will discuss how nightclubs, and the scenes they foster, are shaped by architecture and urban processes. Do we value night venues enough, as social and cultural infrastructure that supports otherwise marginalised groups? What possibilities are opened by thinking architecture through the night, and through the typologies of clubs and related venues?

The speakers and hosts will share their work curating the social, cultural and architectural histories of night-time venues. They will cover nightclub design and heritage (Catharine Rossi); Black British music and the heritage of Jamaican music in Britain (Mykaell Riley) and night-time venues associated with LGBTQ+ populations (Ben Campkin and Lo Marshall).