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Space House hosts London’s biggest student chess showdown

Level 14 of the Tower doesn't usually see this much quiet concentration broken up by the odd triumphant grin, but last week it played host to one of the biggest inter-university chess competitions London's …
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October 30, 2026
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Decentralising and Blockchain. Workshops

Space House played host to a full afternoon of workshops and panel sessions featuring some of the sharpest minds in blockchain research. We welcomed DeTaP, the first-ever Workshop on Decentralisation: Theory and Practice. It …
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October 22, 2026
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The joy of six: hexagon-hunting at Space House

Can you spot the hexagons dotted all over Space House? It's something Tim Gledstone, the architect at Squire & Partners who led the restoration of Space House, first noticed. He did something few people …
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October 22, 2026
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Making sense of DeepMind and the race for leadership in AI

Space House kicked off its AI. After Intelligence series with about as big a name as the subject allows: Sebastian Mallaby, biographer of DeepMind founder and CEO Demis Hassabis. Sebastian was talking about Demis, …
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October 22, 2026
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How To Talk To AI: an evening with Jamie Bartlett

Journalist, writer and creator of the hit podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen, Jamie Bartlett wants us all "to be just two per cent better" at using AI tools. He's gone deep into using AI …
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October 22, 2026
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Sarah O’Connor asks what work means in the AI era

The latest in our AI. After Intelligence series brought Financial Times columnist Sarah O'Connor to Space House. Sarah was talking about her new book, We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of …
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October 22, 2026
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Popcorn time at Clubhouse as Brutalism goes dystopian

Imagine it. A brutalist tower descends into chaos as social order falls apart, floor by floor. This dystopian scenario was the basis of JG Ballard's 1975 novel High Rise. It was adapted into a …
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October 22, 2026
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The piazza just got 13 metres taller, thanks to Rana Begum 

There's a new landmark outside Space House… and it's impossible to miss. Standing 13 metres tall against our Grade II-listed brutalist tower is No.1616 Fence, a striking hot-pink installation by acclaimed artist Rana Begum, …
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September 9, 2026
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The AI race between America’s lawyers and China’s engineers

Last night, Space House hosted writer and Stanford fellow Dan Wang in conversation with Alexander Evans (LSE) in the Clubhouse. It was a lively, occasionally alarming hour on what's really driving the US-China rivalry. …
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September 9, 2026
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What’s bright, citrusy and puts a smile on everyone’s face?

Space House's piazza just got a serving of colour. Sitting out on our otherwise peaceful campus is a brand-new ping pong table from Art of Ping Pong, dressed head to toe in a zingy …
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August 9, 2026
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