AA tutor Platon Issaias, who teaches ‘Fluid Territories’ (Diploma 7) and Projective Cities will give a lecture to the Kosovo Architecture Festival at 6.30pm on Thursday 1 October. His lecture, titled ‘Territories, Equipments and Bodies: Architecture of Collective Living’ will consider different models for living together, drawing on his research and teaching.

The lecture will ask ‘what is the agency of architecture? How do we develop a pedagogical model that allows for a more effective relation between academic institutions and practice? How can architectural and urban design practice intervene in contexts where vulnerable and often in-transit population are living? How can the categories of permanence, transition, or ‘integration’ be rethought in relation to new models of social and spatial organisations that challenge conventional domestic diagrams?’

‘The spatial organization of how we live together is reflected on a series of informal and formal relations between subjects, between spaces, between structural and non-structural elements, between objects, and protocols of use and occupation. The Architecture of Collective Living therefore opens up a discussion of how the urban can be understood through specific architecture and its design, and how its effect as an urban armature is not only of spatial importance, but equally organised by larger political and social discourses. The Architecture of Collective Living expands from the molecular to the territorial and the planetary.’

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