Professor Kerstin SailerJul 8, 2024

Fascinating blog post by my #BartlettSchoolOfArchitecture colleague Prof Sophia Psarra on the configuration of the House of Commons and how Labour's supermajority might change the dynamics of the opposing benches political culture

http://con-figurations.com/2024/07/07/how-will-they-sit-architecture-and-politics-in-the-uk-commons-chamber-elections-2024-special-blog/

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How Will They Sit? Architecture and Politics in the UK Commons Chamber – Elections 2024 Special Blog

Can you fit a supermajority into a space designed for confrontational politics on opposing benches and maintain the political culture? According to the former Labour leader, Neil Kinnock, the extra…

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More on #parliament #buildings and the #architecture of power in this book edited by Sophia Psarra, Uta Staiger and Claudia Sternberg

Available for free to download from #UCL #UCLPress #OpenAccess

https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/223070

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Parliament Buildings

Jul 8, 2024 at 4:47pmWeb
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The book on "Parliament Buildings" includes a short chapter written by me on "Degrees of opposition and cooperation: how seating plans and parliament layouts reflect and give rise to political cultures"

In this, I compare visibility relations in the House of Commons and the German Bundestag, and analyse who sits next to whom in the plenary of the European Parliament in Brussels and how that shapes solidarities and political cultures

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