Subversion, Resistance and Disobedience : Dolls houses as site and method.

FREE EVENT! At UCL London.
May 15th 2025 : 17.00 – 18.00
UCL, London WC1H 0BW

We are excited to announce that Dalia Iskander (associate Professor in Medical Anthropology) has organised an interesting evening of dolls house based discussion with fellow UCL college, Daniel Ovalle Costal, an architect based at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture.

Daniel has a special interest in forms of making that relate to popular culture, including dolls houses, paper theatres and pop-up books. Daniel will give a brief overview of his research as well as provide a tour around his ‘Disobedient Dollhouse’ – a form of critique against architecture’s disciplinary conventions, and the associated normative spaces and aesthetics of domesticity.

Dalia will be talking about her most recent research, Miniature Antidotes, which explores why people make dolls houses and other miniatures in the UK, and the effect this practice has on makers’ lives and wider society.

This will be an interesting discussion about a different side to the dolls house world & looking at this hobby from a different angle.

Tickets are FREE but limited, so please make sure you book now!