The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL CRUNCH: Passing Place, Staying in Motion

Rozana Montiel delivers a lecture on how architecture can emerge through movement and adaptation. The talk explores what it means to think about places not as fixed objects, but as environments that can respond to change, support different forms of inhabitation, and create space for belonging.

Drawing on spaces that are continually redefined through everyday life, the lecture considers architecture as something that is shaped by encounter, appropriation and use. Rather than treating movement as the opposite of architecture, it asks how design can work with movement to generate temporary, adaptable and meaningful places.

The event forms part of the CRUNCH Series at the Bartlett School of Architecture and includes respondents Pablo Sendra and Mpho Matsipa, with Fernando Gutiérrez chairing. It is an in-person public talk aimed at anyone interested in architecture, urban space and the social life of places.