QUESTIONNAIRE:
Do you have a position on the architectural object in the city - what makes it urban and what propels it into the future?
Could you see inspiring models in the past or the present, and confront their need to mutate, grow and rise up to new meta-levels?
What if you could pull together your boldest and most unapologetic ideas and visions, would you give urban architecture that crucial push, kick or blast towards radical transformation?
Are you brave enough to face the potentially monstrous yet catalytic outcomes of your extreme hypotheses and provocations?
PREVIEW:
If YES, please join us for a super-charged, accelerated and fun one-day workshop, run by the Plakat Platform, on Wednesday, February 21, 2018.
Tackling quite serious questions within the light and easy atmosphere of quick brainstorms and provocations, we will help you convert your initial input (a chosen precedent project or a sample of your current design work) through intense critique and bombardment with ideas. Drawing on our combined experience, the disciplinary histories and the contemporary culture, you will review your “victim”-object in much broader contexts, expand its capacities, select a route for its extreme makeover – and then, follow it through with courage and abandon! Combining speed and depth in our trademark approach, we will exploit the magic of collisions and variations, hacks and other shortcuts – with the final “monsters” allowing you to break away from the habitual and the expected, and giving your emerging position a strong pitch and an arresting image.
WHEN: Wednesday, February 21, 2018
WHERE: Diploma 8 Unit Space
WHO: Participants: Open to the AA Diploma students only, with a limited number of spaces. To sign up, please contact Maria directly (mfedorchenko@hotmail.com);
Plakat Team: Maria Fedorchenko, Lorenzo Perri, Minh Duc Le (full list tbc.); for background, see www.plakat-platform.one.
Maria Fedorchenko runs Diploma 8, and has been a Unit Master at the AA since 2010. She has also held teaching positions at UC Berkeley, UCLA and California College of the Art. Primarily an educator and theorist, focusing on diagram and infrastructure, she is also a creative practitioner and an urban consultant. She is a co-founder of the Plakat Platform.
Lorenzo Perri graduated from the AA with Honours in 2016. He has conducted a number of design workshops for Intermediate 7 and Diploma 8. He also taught in the AA Summer School and co-directed the AA Visiting School in La Paz with Sabrina Morreale in 2018. He a co-founder of Plakat Platform and architectural practice Ecòl, with recent work in Italy and Austria.
Minh Duc Le graduated from the AA in 2016, and have worked with Twelve Architects and Boyarsky Murphy Architects in London. He collaborated with AA Visiting Schoo Tropicality in 2016 and initiated research project The Grid of Vietnamese Modernism focusing on the narratives and formation of Vietnamese Architecture in the 20th century.
(Image Credit: Olympia Simopoulou, Urban Kaleidoscope.)