AA History and Theory Studies tutors Eleni Axioti, Nerma Cridge, William Orr, Stefan Cristian Popa, Ricardo Ruivo and Teresa Stoppani will present at the AHRA International Conference in Dundee, 21-23 November 2019.

Nerma Cridge is part of the panel on Feminist Approaches to Cities, Stefan Cristian Popa is part of the panel on Protest Transgression and Deviant Practices in Cities and Teresa Stoppani will chair Beyond History before Criticism: Architecture in (as) Conversation.

Eleni Axioti, William Orr and Ricardo Ruivo together with Charlotte Grace (CSM & Oxford Brookes) and Tilo Ahmoff (University of Brighton), will be presenting as part of panel on entitled Constructing the Collective: State Planning and the Public Sector.

The panel deals with notion of collective life, which appears today as part of a debate that, in the contemporary context of neoliberalism, prolonged austerity, and displaced populations, aims to recover a social and political engagement for architecture. The “collective” names an institutional ambiguity in architecture’s relation to the political sphere. Contributions to the panel will take up this problematic from various angles. Not only a set of critical challenges to contemporary discourse, the panel will also present historical research into tensions internal to social democratic building in the post-war era. In addition, it will suggest the difficult relationship between popular mobilisations and institutions. Overall, the panel aims to direct the discussion toward the challenges and the opportunities which can only be found within the material transformation of the collective world.

For more information visit the AHRA conference website.