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Desert Island Images: Neal Shasore

Desert Island Images: Neal Shasore

Desert Island Images is a series of conversations with guests with a story to tell and a passionate relationship to the world of images. Join us as Neal Shasore shares his Desert Island Images.

What are the images that stay with you? The most inspiring or haunting. The images you can see if you close your eyes and just remember, or dream. Which would you take to that mythical desert island?

Neal Shasore is Head of School and Chief Executive of the London School of Architecture, an innovative practice-embedded network that seeks to educate future design leaders focused on the flourishing of humanity and the planet. Trained as an art historian, Neal’s work has primarily been in the world of architecture, architectural history and heritage. His research has focussed on the early twentieth century in Britain and the Empire – his first book, Designs on Democracy, was published by OUP last year.

Hosted by Alistair Cartwright, activist and researcher at the University of Liverpool.

Desert Island Images is a series of conversations with invited guests who have a story to tell and a passionate relationship to the world of images. Hosted by the Barbican Library, each event explores the handful of images they find most powerful, inspiring, comforting, haunting or generally indispensable. Encompassing photographs, paintings, drawings, graphics, illustrations, films, TV, maps, diagrams and more, Desert Island Images is an invitation to take the pulse of our image saturated world via a unique personal and critical perspective.

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