MA RESEARCH ARCHITECTURE PUBLIC FORUM

RESEARCH AGENCY

This Public Forum emerges out of the MA Research Architecture student cohort 2025-26. It is not simply a presentation of individual research projects, it is rather an assembly of concerns, that we have navigated collectively. Instead of an exhibition, we hold a forum: not a room in which merely to look projects, but a space in which to speak.

We speak up about both distant and close struggles and how they relate to here, now, and one another. We also take a stance against the growing global educational crisis, which has directly affected our university, degree programme, staff and students. We stand in solidarity with the strike action against Goldsmiths’ restructuring program and hope to open up this space to showcase and workshop how to navigate hardship both near and far, together.

PUBLIC FORUM // Programme
Thursday 24 September 5-9pm Public Forum launch “Research Agency”

Location: St James Hatcham With fritters and relaxing drinks provided by Kelapa Gading

SOFA TALK
Thursday 24 September 5pm Sofa Talk: Goldsmiths' Future?
We bring our studio sofa to the picket line for a conversation about the institutional crisis caused by the "Future Goldsmiths" restructuring programme. Guests include Free Goldsmiths, the Goldsmiths University and College Union, and CRA students and staff.

Location: St James Hatcham

ACTIVATION WEEKEND
Saturday 26-27 September Public Forum Programme all day - schedule available on CRA Instagram and other media channels

RESEARCH AGENCY

It can seem naive to believe research has agency as crises erupt and unfold at unprecedented scales across the planet and as critical humanistic education is besieged by a political economy that no longer tolerates dissent. (Goldsmiths is under its third round of management-directed staffing cuts in five years, and CRA staff have not been paid for several months). Through this exhibition we do nonetheless insist that research has agency and that it is possible—with a network of support—to make forays into today’s ubiquitous brutality without becoming coarse, exhausted or losing sight of other horizons.

Locations: St James Hatcham, RHB Cinema, Ian Guilland Lecture Theatre

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