Annual General Meeting 2022

​The Annual General Meeting of the Registered Members of the Architectural Association (Inc) will be held on Zoom on Monday 31 January at 6.30pm GMT. The meeting will be followed by a short presentation by recent graduate Richard Aina on his RIBA award-winning dissertation A Culture of Craft: West Africa UNObjectified, and offers an occasion to bring our global membership together to reflect on the achievements of our community during the past year.

Schedule

6.30 – Introduction to the AGM and appointment of new Secretary – (President)

6.35 – Apologies and Declarations of Interest – (President)

6.37 - Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on the 20th January 2021 -­ (President)

6.40 - Trustees Report & Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31st July 2021 for AA Inc. - Presentation & Adoption - (Head of Finance & Chair of IEG)

6.50 - Appointment of the Auditors for 2021/2022 - (Chair of Audit & Risk Committee)

6.55 – Membership Register Update – For Approval – (Head of Membership)

7.00 – Any Other Business – (All)

7.10 – Close of AGM

7.15 Presentation – Richard Aina, AADipl 2021 presenting his RIBA award-winning dissertation A Culture of Craft: West Africa UNObjectified in conversation with History and Theory tutor and Dissertation supervisor Mark Campbell

For more information on Richard Aina's dissertation which was tutored by Mark Campbell and Manolis Stavrakakis:

The thesis initially explores how and why West African objects of particular tribes were crafted, within their respective contexts and the various infrastructures that have existed; and persist in allowing these sacred objects to find themselves dissociated from their socioreligious premise.

The second part of the thesis is in response to the first and current paradigm that has been triggered since President Macron’s seminal speech at the University of Ouagadougou in 2017 – in which he vowed that France would begin to return West African objects of antiquity that are in their possession. Located in traditional Lobi land, The VESSEL is introduced as a traditionally infused contemporary vernacular architecture for the LOBI peoples that rehouses and spiritually rehabilitates their BATEBA figures of antiquity.

Richard Adetokunbo Aina is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher with particular strengths that reside in architectural/spatial design, architectural writing, furniture craft, and conceptual film making. His particular interests in amalgam typologies and liminal space drive his exploration towards contemporary West African aesthetic expression, which he has recently coined as "afro-revivalism."