AA Design Research Lab (DRL) Programme Co-ordinator, Spatial Performance and Design (AAIS) Tutor and Intermediate History and Theory Lecturer, Nerma Cridge, will be presenting a paper titled The colours of the black sky for the session, Space, Architecture, Design, next week. Cridge is also chairing a session on Metaphor, Meaning and Language at an interdisciplinary conference called Darkness: Invisible imaginaries in Nuuk, at the Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland from 20–23 January 2025.

The paper explores how darkness and its apparent opposites, for example colourful and bright fireworks, mutually depend on each other. We need darkness in order to appreciate the temporal, the elusive and the small to start to comprehend its all-encompassing effects. Darkness has the power to make huge landscapes shrink, rendering them apparently small and intimate. The link between Nordic landscapes’ sky, water and ice, and a virtual space; suggesting an ambiguous and a malleable space, full of secrecy and deception will be speculated upon in the concluding parts of the presentation.

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Image: Iceberg in Greenland, November 2018. Courtesy of Nerma Cridge.