Professorial Inaugural Lecture: “Helsinki to Kumasi: Stories from the Centre” by Harry Charrington

In this lecture Professor Harry Charrington advocated for a more engaged history of architecture and place-making. He discussed some remarkable work in Helsinki and Kumasi, and introduces individuals with their own distinctive agency. He argued that we need to share more stories like these if we are to develop a praxis capable of addressing the complexity of the living world.  Reflecting on over thirty years of practice, teaching, and research, and utilising archival material and oral histories, Charrington suggested how we might restore them to history – i.e. to humanity.