Event overview
Centre for Research Architecture graduating exhibition
This year’s graduating MA exhibition includes work, talks, and workshops from both the Research Architecture Studio and the Forensic Architecture studio.
The "Fielding" exhibition designed by the Research Architecture Studio departs from spatially-driven practice-led research to investigate struggles across fields of ecology, labor, land rights, mobility and urban space. The students' research sits between different disciplines and is always engaged in a process of 'fielding' questions and questioning 'fields'. At the centre of the exhibition is a space for workshops and conversations. This 'field' hub also acts as a waypoint, offering threads to and through the politics, places, and struggles of this year’s projects. Through the idea of “fielding,” the MA graduates in Research Architecture invite the public to slow down and spend time with each other as well as the materials that inform their work.
The "Some Assembly Needed " public platform designed by the Forensic Architecture Studio conceives ‘the forum’ as an ongoing process of assembly. In some cases, this involves the work connecting to existing forums of protest, elsewhere wholly shifting the focal point to assemble new forums is necessary. The assembly and reassembly of spatial, testimonial, digital, and mineral evidence forms the basis of six research projects. From reconstructing police killings in Brazil, to navigating the toxic shipbreaking port of Aliağa in Turkey, the exhibition moves through the legacies of war in Kosovo and Sri Lanka, before two distinct projects contest the British chicken industry and platform capitalism’s entrance into the frame of cultural heritage dispossession. Through modes of assembly and reassembly, these architectures of protest both inform and take form in the design of the exhibition space. Collaborating with U-Build, the modular assemblies that occupy and structure the space give definition to the many iterations of forums at work. Guests are invited to attend, move through, and gather between these assemblies. We believe their and the wider public’s engagement with the forums they contain and uphold is something that is very much needed.
Dates & times
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29 Sep 2022 |
6:00pm - 11:00pm Opening preview celebration |
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30 Sep 2022 | 2:00pm - 8:00pm | |
1 Oct 2022 | 10:00am - 8:00pm | |
2 Oct 2022 | 10:00am - 8:00pm | |
3 Oct 2022 | 2:00pm - 8:00pm | |
4 Oct 2022 | 2:00pm - 8:00pm | |
5 Oct 2022 | 2:00pm - 8:00pm | |
6 Oct 2022 | 2:00pm - 8:00pm |
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