Manijeh Verghese will be joined by Sumitra Upham (Crafts Council) and Chee-Kit Lai (The Bartlett School of Architecture) on a panel discussion chaired by Neba Sere, titled CRUNCH: The Source of the Everyday. The panel will discuss the experience of home, identity and the everyday in relation to the theme of resource.

The discipline of architecture often considers British post-war architecture and its relation to sociology to think about design shaped by material cultures of the everyday. However, art movements and architecture collectives in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s celebrated a sense of belonging and everyday practice in intimate, domestic, community, and public space. While contemporary practices demonstrate that the everyday is an inexhaustible field for architectural creation.

The 2023 British Pavilion exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Dancing Before The Moon, turned to material culture and practices of the everyday to explore diasporic senses of home, roots, and identity in the UK. Building on such themes, this panel discussion addresses the annual theme of resource as the construction of one’s home or as a return to the resilient source of the everyday.

This event is part of the inaugural CRUNCH Series at The Bartlett School of Architecture.
It is a free event with limited capacity, seating is given on a first-come first-served basis. For more information click here.

6.30–8pm, 2 November 2023 GMT
The Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street, London, Room G.12

Image: South Asia Gallery, Manchester Museum in partnership with the British Museum; Image credit: Gareth Gardner.