Site, Making & Collaboration

​Join us for the Winter Open Jury on Friday 12 February to see a selection of work-in-progress from this academic year presented by students from across the school.

Students who are engaging with innovative ways to re-imagine how we understand site, making and collaboration as we continue to work remotely will present their projects-in-progress to a panel of invited critics across three sessions chaired by Head of Media Studies Kate Davies, Environmental and Technical Studies Co-ordinator Nacho Marti and Head of Teaching and Learning Mark Morris.

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Schedule:

Site
Jurors: Tania Kovats, Perry Kulper and Jussi Parikka, chaired by Kate Davies

10.00 – Introduction
10.30 – Anna Glik, Diploma 13 - The Making of a State Narrative
10.50 - Vasilis Appios, Diploma 9 - BioCultural Heritage Making in the Uplands of England
11.10 - Emma Coates, Foundation - The apple doesn't fall
11.30 - Aijie Xiong, Diploma 16 - A Dissolving Rurality
11.50 - Discussion

12.30 – Lunch

Making
Jurors: Madeleine Kessler, Arthur Mamou-Mani and Pablo Zamorano, chaired by Nacho Marti

13.30 – Magdalene Monzie Tan, Juliette Bartsoen, Lee Chung Pan, Selin Nisa Açıkel, Experimental 10 - Cast
13.50 - Juntao Liu, First Year - Modes of Life: Home Learning
14.10 - Laure Segur, First Year - Perreo-tecture
14.30 - Haoyang Shi, Zhengze Yu, Yi Han, Architecture & Urbanism (DRL) - Bringing the Hospital to You
14.50 - Discussion

15.30 – break

Collaboration
Jurors: Mike Aling, Anthony Titus, Olivia Horsfall Turner and Pamela Unwin-Barkley, chaired by Mark Morris

16.00 – Camille Bongard, Diploma 12 - Performing Objects
16.20 - Paul Cristian, Experimental 13 - Institute of Extinction
16.40 - S. H. Hosea Lau, Zeena Jamil & Halima Khamis Ali, Diploma 20 - The Box Next Door
17.00 - Zoya, Yue Zhong , Can Aksan , Tong Gao, Spatial Performance & Design (AAIS) - Origins
17.20 - Discussion

18.00 – Concluding Remarks

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Mike Aling is Design Coordinator of the MArch architecture programme at the University of Greenwich Department of Architecture and Landscape and leads Unit 14 with Eva Sommeregger. He leads graphics and learning innovation teams within his department. Mike is a researcher and publications director of the AVATAR (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) group. His research explores the future of the architectural book, printed media design anatomies, architectural publishing, new media, and the utilisation of modelling in architectural education and practice. Mike has been published and exhibited internationally.

Kate Davies is an artist and architect. She is the founding director of nomadic design studio Unknown Fields, art practice LiquidFactory and field robotics group RAVEN. She undertakes site-specific and expedition-based work across the globe, making films, objects and installations. Kate was unit master of Diploma 6 [Unknown Fields] for eight years, and has taught MArch Units at The Bartlett, UCL. She is Head of Media Studies at the AA.

Madeleine Kessler trained as both an architect and engineer and is experienced in working with complex urban sites, placing community, craft and making at the heart of design. As co-curator of the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 and co-founder of Unscene Architecture, she is currently exploring how we can better open up privatised public space, making it accessible to all. Madeleine has nearly a decade of practice experience, having previously worked at Haworth Tompkins Architects, Haptic Architects, HHF Architekten, and Studio Weave. Passionate about promoting a creative understanding of the city, Madeleine sits on the National Infrastructure Commission’s Design Group, teaches at the London School of Architecture, and regularly runs workshops, including for the National Saturday Club Trust. She was awarded the 2019 RIBA Rising Star Award and named as one of the Architects' Journal's 40 under 40.

Tania Kovats’ practice and research as an artist is an exploration of our experience of landscape, increasingly with an environmental focus. Her work includes temporary and permanent sculptural works often in the public realm, drawing, and writing, that currently consider her preoccupation with water, rivers, seas and oceans. She works at the confluence of environmental, psychological, political, and the personal. Kovats is an advocate for drawing in its expanded field, as a highly significant tool of thinking and expression, that provides an infinite and varied means of communication that continues to be expanded and enriched by practitioners. She regularly seeks out engagement and impact with audiences beyond the gallery. Her works are in both public and private collections in the UK and abroad, including Arts Council, Jupiter Artland, The British Council, Government Art Collection, the National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and the V&A. She is Professor of Drawing and Making at DJCAD, University of Dundee.

Perry Kulper is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. In a prior life he was a SCI-Arc faculty member for 17 years and held visiting teaching positions at Penn and ASU during that time. Subsequent to his graduate studies at Columbia University he worked in the offices of Eisenman/ Robertson, Robert A.M. Stern and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown before moving to Los Angeles. His primary interests include: the roles and generative potential of architectural drawing; the different spatial opportunities offered by using diverse design methods in design practices; and in broadening the conceptual range by which architecture contributes to our cultural imagination. He was the Sir Banister Fletcher Visiting Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL 2018-19. In 2013 he published Pamphlet Architecture 34, ‘Fathoming the Unfathomable: Archival Ghosts and Paradoxical Shadows’ with friend and collaborator Nat Chard. They are at work on a new book to be published by UCL Press. Recently he optimistically ventured into the world of the digital, attempting to get a handle on ‘cut + paste’ and ‘magic wand’ operations in Photoshop—as a result he has encountered one of his steeper learning curves. Even more recently he has also been snooping around under the metaphorical hood of said digital realms… fantastic beasts have also been on his mind.

Arthur Mamou-Mani is a French architect and Director of Mamou-Mani Architects who specialises in a new kind of digitally designed and fabricated architecture. He is a lecturer at the University of Westminster and owns a digital fabrication laboratory called the Fab.Pub. Arthur was selected as one of the RIBAj's 2017 cohort of Rising Stars. He has won the Gold Prize at the American Architecture Prize for the Wooden Wave project installed at BuroHappold Engineering and since 2016, he is a fellow of the The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Prior to founding Mamou-Mani in 2011, he worked with Atelier Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid Architects and Proctor and Matthews Architects.

Nacho Marti graduated from Elisava School of Design in Barcelona and the Emergent Technologies and Design MSc at the AA. His projects have been exhibited, published and awarded internationally, including a nomination for the 2007 Index Design Award in Copenhagen, the FAD prize in 2008, the IPlus award in 2009 and a High Commendation in the TTJ Achievement in Engineered Timber Award in 2013. He founded his design studio in 2004 and is the Head of the Visiting School Amazon, Studio Master in First Year and Technical Studies Coordinator at the AA.

Mark Morris, the Head of Teaching and Learning at the AA, works with staff and students on diverse curricular objectives across the School as well as teaches within History and Theory Studies. His research focuses on questions of visual representation in the context of the history of architectural education. He previously taught theory and design at Cornell University where he served as Director of Graduate Studies. He is the author of two books, Models: Architecture and the Miniature and Automatic Architecture. He represents the AA at the Higher Education Academy and London Higher International. He is a member of the V&A Museum’s Architectural Models Network and RIBA Academic Publications Panel. He chairs the AA Teaching and Learning Committee and is a member of the Academic Board and the Senior Management Team.

Jussi Parikka is Professor of Technological Culture and Aesthetics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He is also Visiting Professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague where he leads the five-year project on Operational Images and Visual Culture (funded by the Czech Science Foundation). His books include Insect Media (2010), Digital Contagions (2nd ed. 2016) and A Geology of Media (2015). His new co-edited volume Photography Off the Scale is just out and the co-author Lab Book is forthcoming later in 2021. Jussi also teaches as part of the Terraforming programme at Strelka institute, Moscow. https://jussiparikka.net/.

Anthony Titus leads First-Year Architecture and teaches a range of interdisciplinary courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in New York. He received his undergraduate degree in architecture from the Cooper Union, and MFA from the University of Chicago. Anthony has exhibited his work widely, including three recent solo exhibitions. His essays have been included in numerous publications, including Urban Hopes: Made in China as well as The Great White Whale is Black, The Work of Tony Candido. Titus is a recipient of a research grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for his project “Twisted Siblings: Relationships Between Contemporary Painting and Digital Architecture.”

Olivia Horsfall Turner is the Senior Curator of Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Lead Curator of the V&A+RIBA partnership. Olivia studied History and History of Art at Cambridge and Yale, and took her PhD at University College London. Her essays have featured in several journals and books, including The Lost House Revisited, Images of Egypt, and Irish Gothic Architecture: construction, decay and reinvention. She previously worked at Trinity College Dublin before joining English Heritage as an Architectural Investigator and the Survey of London project.

Pamela Unwin-Barkley has taught design and spatial dynamics at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) since 2004. Her research investigates landscape, monumental form, and design narratives. She received the Helen Fagen Tyler Fellowship and earned a Master of Architecture from Cornell University. In addition to teaching and her Greenwich Bay design practice, Unwin-Barkley serves as the president of the Warwick Museum of Art and on the board of the Woman’s Development Corporation, an organization that provides affordable housing in Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Pablo Zamorano is a Chilean architect and Head of Geometry and Computational Design at Heatherwick Studio where he works across all studio projects providing expertise and guidance on new technologies, techniques, and the execution of challenging geometries. He graduated from Universidad Central in Chile in 2004 and holds a MSc from the Emergent Technologies and Design programme at the AA. He’s practiced in Santiago Chile, New York, and London.