Tenements Talking

Bilge Serin is an urban researcher with a diverse background including urban development, urban design, politics and architecture. She works as a Lecturer in Global Urbanism, University of Glasgow. She worked at the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University and Middle East Technical University as well as the Chamber of City Planners in Turkey before joining University of Glasgow. Her research interests are inequality in urban space, commons and commoning, representations of urban space in mass media, everyday life (particularly in controlled living environments), and the dynamics of contemporary commodification urban space.

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A walking workshop exploring the over-100-year journey of Glasgow’s tenements, as part of the Architecture Fringe Festival 2025

Hillhead Subway Station

Tenements Talking invites you to walk with us among the tenements and listen to their tumultuous stories.Tenements Talking is a walking workshop about the transformation of Glasgow’s tenements over the years. During the workshop, we will walk among the tenements as living monuments of the change of Glasgow’s urban scene within the last century.We will discuss tenements’ stories starting from their construction and 1915 rent strikes which took place in Glasgow tenement neighbourhoods and spread over the UK. We will explore tenements’ adaptation to modern life and technology over the years, and how we can adapt them to respond to climate emergency.We will meet in front of Hillhead Subway Station and go to the nearby tenement neighbourhood where the workshop will take place.

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