Winter Open Jury 2022

​Join us for the Winter Open Jury on Friday 11 February to see a selection of work-in-progress from this academic year presented by students from across the school to re-imagine forms of architectural practice based around the themes of narration, participation and manifestation.

Whether it is using writing and criticism as a form of practice, designing inclusive processes for community-led practice or finding new ways to translate research into design proposals, a jury of invited critics will give feedback on these projects in progress. Students are encouraged to sign up to present their projects under one of these three themes and explain how they are addressing it both in the context of their unit / programme brief and in finding new ways of working and communicating their ideas.

Schedule:

10:00 – Introduction

Narration - chaired by Marina Lathouri, Head of History and Critical Thinking with Barbara Campbell-Lange and Aoi Phillips as critics

10:30 – Aude Tollo, Diploma 13: Accountabilities

10:50 – Melis Ugurlu, History and Critical Thinking: Critique Fictionnée, or the scintillating leaps of imagination that bear the lightning of possible storms

11:10 – Anna Kloos, Experimental 4: A Sonic Odyssey

11:30 – Can Aksan, AAIS - Spatial Design & Performance: The Music of Dreams - Conducted Intelligence

11:50 – discussion

12:30 – Lunch

Participation – chaired by Seth Scafe-Smith, Experimental Unit 4 and Resolve Collective with Joel De Mowbray, Carlotta Novella and Manijeh Verghese as critics

13:30 – Thomas Faulkner, Diploma 1: The Art Of Getting By: Moving From Domestic Abuse to Social Housing

13:50 – Reva Kushwah, Experimental 11: London: Noah's Ark City

14:10 – Matthew Oliver David Cooper, Diploma 6: Architectural Trash

14:30 – Zeena Jamil, Diploma 9: Reconstructing the Public in Damascus

14:50 – discussion

15:30 – break

Manifestation – chaired by Mark Morris, Head of Teaching and Learning with Melodie Leung, Eszter Steierhoffer and Vanessa Norwood as critics

16:00 – Daria Nepop, Cesar Jucker, Sonia Syed, Ammara Asdar, Diploma 11: The Landscape of Excess and Void

16:20 – Amanpreet Kaur, Ashwin Abraham, Yi Jun Ling, Emergent Technologies & Design (EmTech): COALESCE

16:40 – Cem Dilekci and Isabel Su Yi Tan, First Year: Inquiring through making

17:00 – Michal Chudner, Experimental 10: Water horizons

17:20 – discussion

Critics include:

Professor Barbara Campbell-Lange is based at the Bartlett. Her current project, situated between collaborations with MA Landscape and MA Historic Urban Environments, endeavours to recuperate and reinvent tangible and intangible heritages of an artist’s studio in central London for those who are no longer and not yet present.

Joel De Mowbray is a multidisciplinary designer, maker, educator whose practice blends sculpture and structure, to create uniquely warm public spaces that provide a stark counterpoint to the shiny steel, glass and straight lines that now dominate our city. He founded Yes Make in 2020 to include local people in the physical construction of new public spaces such as ‘The Ark’ in Hither Green.

Melodie Leung is an Associate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) where she has been a leading designer within the practice for over 15 years. She has overseen the delivery of notable projects across architecture, public realm, interiors, product design, and experiential design and continues to work closely with the firm's research teams in incorporating the latest strategies in digital fabrication and design.

Vanessa Norwood is Creative Director at the Building Centre, London. Vanessa was previously Head of Exhibitions at the AA. She was co-curator of the exhibition Venice Takeaway for the British Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Biennale in 2012. Vanessa has contributed to publications, magazines and blogs on the subject of art and architecture and is a guest critic at international competitions, industry awards and student juries. Vanessa is part of the Selection Committee for the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.

Carlotta Novella is an artist, architect, teacher and host, part of London based practice public works. Through projects that challenge the idea of gathering, her work looks at how spaces and rituals of food and conviviality can develop civic practices, promoting direct involvement and collective action in order to transform and reclaim contemporary public life. Carlotta has taught at UAL, UCA Canterbury, UMA Sweden and is currently acting BA architecture Stage 1 leader as part of Spatial Practice at Central Saint Martins.

Aoi Phillips is a co-founder of the event and zine collective Afterparti. She received her Diploma from the AA and currently works as an architectural designer at Lisa Shell Architects. She balances architectural practice with graphic design and university teaching, devising the graphic identity of Afterparti and delivering guest seminars at Central Saint Martins and Greenwich University. Aoi is also collaborating on the RE-SET-GO programme and ARUP Foresight initiative.

Eszter Steierhoffer is an art historian and curator based in London. Her curatorial practice situates architecture in its broader cultural, historical, and socio-political contexts. Her academic research revolves around the histories of exhibiting architecture. She is Artistic Director of the Jencks Foundation.