Series: Open Seminar – Plan the PlanetDate: Monday 18 November 2019Time: 18:30Venue: AA Lecture Hall Running time: 120 mins – Click HERE to check the full event in the AAschool You tube Channel – Given the climate and ecological emergency the world is facing, it is paramount to support a socially just re-structuration of the world we inhabit, intrinsically dependant on the health of the earth systems, and trigger, along the way, a radical transformation of the role designers can play in developing design proposals, mitigation strategies, advocacy initiatives and activism. One way to achieve this is by supporting a Green New Deal from those involved in designing landscapes (whether […]
18 Nov
03 Dec
Inter-american Development Bank Seminar on Governance and Urban Growth/ Key Note Speaker: Jose Alfredo Ramirez 5th December 2018
December 3, 2018
AA Landscape Urbanism Co-director Jose Alfredo Ramirez will be a key note speaker in the Seminar on Governance and Urban Growth organized by the Inter-american Development Bank in Bogota Colombia on 5th December 2018. The event will focus on a couple of metropolitan studies the Inter-american Development Bank has developed recently in the region to promote metropolitan coordination, including study cases in Colombia and Chile, and will discuss the idea of Metropolitan Landscapes and the future of Metropolis presented by Jose Alfredo Ramirez as part of an ongoing research on Metropolitan structures. Schedule of event:
10 Oct
Design Agency within Earth Systems/ 26th October 2018 @AAschool
October 10, 2018
Series: Conference Date: Friday 26 October 2018 Time: 10:00 Venue: AA Lecture Hall 8,000 meters above sea level exists what climbers call the ‘death zone’. This altitude marks the limit for human habitation, above which our species cannot survive. We thrive in the ‘life zone’ – the earth’s land surfaces and oceans, its geological layers beneath, the dynamic atmosphere above – all affected by gravitational and magnetic forces beyond. This living world is constantly being transformed by our social, economic and political interactions revealing our intricate dependencies on the the earth and its systems. Terms such as ‘Anthropocene’ and ‘Capitalocene’ have drawn attention to the role of political economy in transforming these earth systems […]
09 Oct
AA Landscape Co Directors to take part in ‘Grounded’ part of AA Positions, a conversations series on 5th November 2018
October 9, 2018
Grounded Series: Positions Date: Monday 5 November 2018 Time: 18:30 Venue: Lecture Hall watch the event HERE To be ‘Grounded’ is to be rooted in place, whether that be a type of landscape, a defined territory, a politicised site, or a locally-specific culture. How can place contribute to the making of space? This conversation will debate different strategies on how to answer this question through mapping intangible flows, generating a productive landscape and introducing stability into conflict zones or struggling economies. Following on from the What’s Next series that was a platform for AA graduates to present their unique forms of practice, this year a new series of five conversations on critical Positions will […]
09 May
Eric Rodenbeck on Data Visualization as a Creative Practice 15th May 2018
May 9, 2018
Eric Rodenbeck on Data Visualization as a Creative Practice at the Architectural Association 15th May 2018, 14:00 pm Landscape Urbanism Studio 4 Morwell Street. All welcome: It’s past time for those of us who do this work to realize that telling stories with data is not a subgenre of computer science, or of anything else for that matter, any more than movies are a subgenre of live theater or photography is a sub genre of painting. Computer science, on its own, has about as much to say about the medium of data visualization as photographic paper engineering has to say about Instagram. Computer science is the technical underpinnings of dataviz, sometimes. Dataviz is […]
09 Mar
Dubravka Sekulic on How to Code Urban commons, Architectural Association 16th March at 37 Bedford Square First Floor Front
March 9, 2018
Dubravka Sekulic, How to Code Urban commons Architectural Association , 16th March, 17:00 hrs, at 33 Bedford Square First Floor Back. Law shapes the public and common space, leading to enclosure of space or spatial dispossession. How can public space be defended and extended by learning from the protocols and social contracts of the free software culture? (Vortrag in englisch) It should not come as surprise that laws shape space as there is a whole set of legislation in most of the countries which deals with space directly. What often come as surprise is that even those laws which do not directly engage with spatial matters have an effect on it. […]
19 Feb
Elise Hunchuck on ‘An Incomplete Atlas of Stones’ 23rd February 2018, Architectural Association
February 19, 2018
An Incomplete Atlas of Stones “Je bâtis à roches mon langage.” “I build my language with rocks.” –Édouard Glissant, L’Intention poétique What does it mean to mark a stone? In the wake of the 869 Jogan tsunami along the Pacific coast of Japan, communities began to erect stone tablets called tsunami stones. These stones performed a dual function; they were warnings – markers of the edges of inundation, they indicate where to build and where to flee when oceans rise; and, they are memorials, erected as part of a ritual that memorializes geologic events and those lost. In 1743, on the coast of Sweden along the Bottenhavet […]
07 Feb
Patricio Mora, Earthquakes, rubble and memories. 12th February 2018 2PM AALU studio All Welcome
February 7, 2018
Earthquakes, rubble and memories. In preserving urban memories, what we have commonly considered to be a weakness may become our main tool. Symbolic rubble can be reinterpreted from its current identity as waste, and instead be considered as useful material to be used in projects. These are filled with memories, but where / how / when can these be reused? Patricio Mora, co-founder and executive director of Proyecta Memoria Foundation, will talk about a new form of damaged heritage conservation. Occupying squares, parks and pedestrian areas as sites for these projects, he will discuss educational approaches to creating resilient communities, and show recent work in Mexico responding to the September […]
21 Mar
Emma McNally ‘mapping in the midst’ 22 March 2017 Architectural Association
March 21, 2017
Seminar: Mapping in the midst Location: 33 Bedford Square, First Floor Back time: 2 pm All welcome Emma McNally’s drawings suggest maps or charts of things as complex and various as seas, the night sky, military bases, computer circuit boards, data-flow, flight paths. They also evoke aerial photographs, radar screens and experimental musical scores. Yet though her drawings chime with both the real and the virtual world, they all come from the imagination. If they were charts, they could map a mindscape. McNally’s recent body of work ‘Choral Fields’ (exhibited at Hayward Gallery, London and Biennale of Sydney) were made in a studio by the river Thames at London’s West […]
14 Feb
Jeremy Wood on Drawing and GPS 15th February 2 pm at the Architectural Association
February 14, 2017
Jeremy Wood on Drawing with GPS at the Architectural Association tomorrow 15th February at 33 Bedford Square First Floor Back. All welcome: http://www.jeremywood.net/about.html Jeremy Wood pioneered drawing with GPS to explore the expressive qualities of using his body as a geodesic pencil. His work responds to the ways in which maps can both inform and mislead us through their ability to state ideas that cannot be articulated by words alone. Featured in The New York Times’ 2003: Year in Ideas, his personal cartographies have been exhibited in over fifty exhibitions in the UK and abroad, and is currently held in private and public collections including the London Transport Museum and […]