Winter Open Jury 2023

T​he Winter Open Jury on Friday 10 February will highlight a selection of work-in-progress from this academic year presented by students from across the school

Students will present in relation to three themes: Wakey Wakey (projects about power structures, accountability and systemic change), Makey Makey (projects that engage with different forms of fabrication), and Dreamy Dreamy (speculative projects thinking of new or alternative futures).

The Open Jury will take place in person in the AA Lecture Hall and is open for anyone to attend. It will also be livestreamed on YouTube.

Critics include:

Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian is an award-winning designer of experiences with over a decade of working to manufacture impossible productions and complex events and projects. She is an artist, radio host, keynote speaker, amateur boxer and the director and producer of three feature-length movies (The International Space Orchestra, 2013; Disaster Playground, 2015; I am (not) a monster, 2019). Nelly is the founder of both NASA’s International Space Orchestra , the tuition-free charity University of the Underground and design agency Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios.

Edmund Fowles founded Feilden Fowles in 2009 with Fergus Feilden, following his studies at the University of Cambridge and the Architectural Association. Edmund has delivered a range of award-winning projects, from Feilden Fowles’ own studio at Waterloo City Farm, to Charlie Bigham’s Food Production Campus in Somerset. He is the Director in charge of a number of prestigious education projects, including the new dining hall for Homerton College, University of Cambridge, and graduate accommodation and student facilities for Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. He is also leading Feilden Fowles’ proposals for the Urban Nature Project at the Natural History Museum in London.

Edwin Heathcote is the Architecture critic of The Financial Times. He is an architect, designer and the author of a number of books including, most recently, 'On the Street: In-Between Architecture'. He is the Keeper of Meaning at The Cosmic House and the founder and editor of online archive readingdesign.org.

James Khamsi designs across a range of scales – from urban masterplans to furniture pieces – and has delivered projects in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Europe. Prior to founding DCSK, James was the founding principal of the New York-city based FIRM. He has practiced with leading architects, most notably at Foreign Office Architects, where he worked on the London 2012 Olympic Park Masterplan, the Sevenstone mixed-use development in Sheffield and the Virtual Metro for the RATP in Paris. He is currently a Unit Master of Intermediate 17 at the Architectural Association (London).

Angel Fernando Lara Moreira is the head of Digital Prototyping at the Architectural Association, and a faculty member of the AA Summer DLAB, an annual programme centered on form finding design research, structural performance and robotic fabrication. Angel’s passion and core research focuses on how digital fabrication influences the way in which architecture is taught, conceived, tested, evolved and ultimately built. To complement the various units and programmes throughout the school, Angel organises independent workshops to explore the limits and possibilities of architectural design centered around digital fabrication.

Parvinder Marwaha works in cultural and climate advocacy and programming, exploring core systems of gender and race. In her role at the British Council, she specialises in UK, Europe and South Asian cultural exchange. Her projects include ‘Gender Ecologies’, a cross-artform programme on the intersection of gender and climate in Bangladesh and Pakistan; and ‘DesignKind’, which explores racial and climate (in)justice.

Debika Ray is an editor and writer specialising in arts and culture, with a keen interest in the Global South, diasporic communities and social justice. She has 18 years of experience at publications ranging from the Financial Times and Al Jazeera, to Wallpaper and Icon. She is currently editor of Crafts and head of editorial at the Crafts Council.

Sebastian Tiew is an architectural designer and visual artist based in London. He co-founded Cream Projects, a hybrid practice exploring game engine tools both as means for creative production in the film, music and fashion industries, as well as subjects of contemporary critique, through moving image artworks and teaching across schools of art and architecture.

Schedule:

10:00 Introduction

WAKEY WAKEY (critics: James Khamsi, Parvinder Marwaha)
10:25 Thomas Germain-Pendry, Diploma 10 – "super- CALLY- fragilistic-expialidocious", aka The Cally: Communications in the Political Urban
10:50 Amy Brar, Projective Cities – Precarious Waters: Spatializing Agency among Fisherwomen of Lake Chilika
11:15 Mahshad Damari, Intermediate 17 – Social City System
11:40 Madeleine Griffiths, Diploma 12 – Queering the Home
12:05 Closing comments

12:30 Lunch

MAKEY MAKEY (critics: Edmund Fowles, Debika Ray, Angel Fernando Lara Moreira)
13:30 Nicholas Volpe, Design and Make – Ultranatural Timber Geometries
13:55 Esperanza Nelson, Intermediate 14 – Building from Ashes
14:20 Shraddha Nepal, Chuheng Tan, Tuoan Pan, Emergent Technologies – Design and Technology
14:45 Matthew Cooper,Diploma 6: Growing Architecture – Healing Structure, Forming Space
15:10 Closing comments

15:35 Coffee & Tea break

DREAMY DREAMY (critics: Nelly Ben Hayoun, Sebastian Tiew, Edwin Heathcote)
16:00 Zimeng Ma, Intermediate 8 – Naturepunk
16:25 Anna Shpuntova, Housing & Urbanism – Cities of Care
16:50 Yue Sun, Intermediate 11 – A Street User Guide
17:15 Foundation – Mapping Atmospheres and Conjuring Volumes
17:40 Closing comments