AA Approaches: SPACE + STREETS

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AA Approaches is a week-long festival of ideas.

Architectural Association

AA Approaches is a week-long festival of ideas to mark the start of the new academic year, a celebration of the AA’s 175th birthday and the beginning of Ingrid Schroder’s tenure as AA Director. This is an excellent moment to question what and how we teach, and the impact of the work we produce, at a moment characterised by rapid change and urgent global challenges. Each talk pairs two related yet contrasting themes, which draw upon legacies and lineages present within the school and reassess the strategies and methods that they have produced. It is an exciting opportunity to reflect on how different approaches have evolved and come to frame the more critical concerns of the immediate and more distant future. The academic year begins within this critical moment to stop and consider where we have been - to engage, to take responsibility, to reflect on where we are going and to respond with delight and hope, as well as fear and trembling. The penultimate session sets those who see the order (and division) of our cities and regions as legible from SPACE against those who are pressing for architecture to come from the STREETS. The understanding of the world from space reveals vast territorial patterns of movement and change, and remote sensing and satellite technologies provide layers of socio-political context. However, this distant voyeurism is often too passive and fails to enact urgent change. For many, architecture must come from communities and neighbourhoods as a form of activism. This conversation is an opportunity to challenge these alternative positions – both equally political in nature but with radically different tools for the fight they are engaged in. We will explore how both collective agency and remote analysis contend with current crises and confront the pace of plausible change within the constraint of architectural education. Speakers from different moments in the AA’s past and present, together with critical friends, will come together to discuss the role of activism in architectural education and practice and the agency of the architect to operate across these scales. S﻿peakers include: Space Caviar, Matthew Gandy, Julika Gittner, Rana Haddad, Muyiwa Oki Grahame Shane, Eyal Weizman and Liam Young.

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