Now What: Re-thinking Practice

Metropolitan Architecture Student Society

In conversation with Hani Salih, Amahra Spence and Thomas Aquilina. Hosted by MASS.

Re-thinking Practice is the second event in the &#x27;Now What&#x27; series, this time bringing together built-environment practitioners to reflect on and discuss the opportunities brought by &#x27;non-traditional&#x27; forms of practice. The evening will aim to question the power multi-disciplinary practice holds in reshaping the dynamics of the built-environment to become more just and responsive to the urgencies of our time, as well as enabling the wider community to understand the city as something that can be engaged with and influenced. How can the practice of designers and architects move beyond a singular position of influence to claim an interdisciplinary role as advocate and facilitator? In what way are architects still necessary in a model of interdisciplinary design and community engagement?The guests will each present their work and reflections on the topic and later engage in discussion. We will welcome questions from the audience which you are able to submit in advance or ask on the day. Please send through any questions you would like to ask the panel to: massatmet@gmail.com.Hani Salih is the Co-founder and Director of Migrant&#x27;s Bureau, a multi-disciplinary social design &amp; urbanism practice facilitating sustainable design interventions, research, podcasts and community workshops for both trans-local and global disenfranchised &amp; migrant communities. Currently completing his post-graduate studies in Urbanisation and Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Hani&#x27;s interests sit at the intersection of architecture, policy, economics, international development and urbanism. Hani is also a Trustee at the Architecture Centre, Occasional Lecturer at University West of England and an Advisor at Theatrum Mundi. In each of these roles, he attempts to bring together questions about systems and an interdisciplinary line of questioning.Amahra Spence is an artist, organiser and spatial practitioner, passionate about community systems architecture. Through her practice, she has been exploring the possibilities of &#x27;healing infrastructure&#x27;, particularly in the context of intergenerational wisdom, Black liberation and the radical imagination. In 2013, she founded MAIA, an arts and social justice organisation, supporting people to change the world through resource redistribution, infrastructure building, platforming and programming. In 2020, Amahra launched The Black Land and Spatial Justice Project with a campaign to raise £30,000 to invest in knowledge production, experimentation and transformative action in natural, virtual and built environments.Thomas Aquilina is a London-based designer invested in building communities of radical thought and progressive practice. Since 2017 he has worked for Adjaye Associates. He co-directs the New Architecture Writers (N.A.W.) programme and is a co-founder of collective Afterparti with an eponymous zine series working to reshape urban space in a way that is more equitable and diverse.

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