The symposium ‘Post-Carbon Material Practices’ probes and charts the contemporary frontiers of material practices in the age of climate change putting the responsibility for our future back into our own court. Can architecture/architects safe the world? Three roundtables feature AA and ABK staff, invited guests and leading experts like Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Territorial Agency or Marjan van Aubel around the themes of ‘Embodied Material Actions’, ‘Expanded Material Agency’ and ‘Affective Material Matters’.

Format

The event will be staged in‐person at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design and will simultaneously be broadcasted live on Vimeo.

Fees

£50 Professionals on site (maximum capacity: 45)

£30 Professionals online

£15 Students on site

£15 Students online

‘Post Carbon Material Practices’ is organised by The Laboratory / AA Visiting School Stuttgart, a cross-disciplinary initiative of the AA at the ABK Stuttgart that brings together architects, artists, designers and researchers to speculate about our life in the future.

Speakers

Marjan van Aubel / Solar Design

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes / Harvard Graduate School of Design

Sven Pfeifer / MY-CO-X, UdK Berlin

John Palmesino & Ann-Sofi Rönnskog / Territorial Agency

Galaad van Daele / ETH Zurich, Accattone magazine

Ye Jin Lee & Hanna Fastrich / Tropos

Kerstin Müller / Zirkular

Christopher Pierce / Director AA Visiting School

For more information see

www.aaschool.ac.uk/academicprogrammes/visitingschool

https://stuttgart.aaschool.ac.uk

https://www.instagram.com/aavs_stuttgart/

or contact us directly

Marianne Müller marianne.mueller@aaschool.ac.uk

Chrissie Muhr chrissie.muhr@aaschool.ac.uk

Covid-19:

Please note that you will have to provide a valid Covid-19 certificate (2 G rule: proof of vaccination or recovery) to enter the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ABK). Medical face coverings will have to be worn in the public areas. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the event.