WALKlondon
my
proposal for the walks.
They
could be a great opportunity for the AA to engage more with the city
where it lives and breathes.
I
really do believe that the AA lacks on its connection with London,
and maybe some people see it as one of its strengths, but I do
believe that understanding the local context, engaging and working
with it is one our responsibilities as
thinkers/makers/designers/architects/urbanists / p e o p l e!
I
really think it would be nice to kick off with a walk lead by a
tutor, staff or colleague.
I
have assembled a list of tutors that I know from the different parts
of the school and can write emails to invite them. What do you think?
And we could discuss more this friday?
We
need to think when these walks could work - it could be Saturday
morning? Or weekdays afternoon? Or weekdays morning before 10?
As
weeks go by, we become busier and busier in school. I was thinking to
kick off with the first walk in two weeks time, so we have time to
make it visible to the school.
It
would great to have a really strong image for these walks -
physically and virtually!
It
would be nice to document the walk and the building or whatever is
being shown by the tutor/colleague and then publish a small zine
after?
We
could aim and have 4 walks for this term 1 and all could culminate
with an open debate in january about its impact of these walks/
within the student body? There are 2 months until the end of term 1
which gives us 8 weeks to do these walks. I think if we already start
next week planning it and pressing the green button, 4 walks is a
decent number.
Questions:
-which
days?
-it
has to be a free event - we will need small amount of money for
printing posters - membership office usually do walks around the city
but it is always ticketed
-a
one hour walk - the meeting point could be the AA or another tube sta
-what
are the conversations we would want to have in school? what themes to
explore?
what
themes would be interesting to explore? the city, buildings, high
streets, health system, housing, education, museums/galleries,
follies, archaeology, public/private spaces, media and technologies
I
guess tutors/colleagues will be happy to do this for free?
I
did speak with Shin about the walks and he said it would probably be
more interesting from his perspective if we do a joint walk with
let's say studios that share their sites in a certain geography of
London. For example inter5 with dip11. I guess it will be nice to see
tomorrow the list with all the units and where they base their sites
in London too. Shin also mentioned it might be interesting to invite
externals that do walks, he mentioned a stone tour exploring all the
different stones of London etc.
I
think I would much more enjoy if these walks would be walked by
people that work and study at the AA. So here is the list I have
assembled. I have also included admin and the director as David
suggested. There is an extended list as I was thinking maybe it's a
good way to check quickly who would like to walk these walks and also
it's an easy way to make this initiative visible too.
Let
me know what you think.
Miraj
Ahmed
Pascal
Babeau
Sabrina
Blakstad
Valentin
Bontjes van Beek
Edward
Bottoms
Ryan
Dillon
Shin
Egashira
Julia
Frazer
Samantha
Hardingham
Ebere
Nwosu
Ann-Sofi
Rönnskog
Hiroe
Shin Shigemitsu
Trystrem
Smith
Manja
van de Worp
Nuria
Alvarez Lombardero
Ana
Araujo
Charles
Arsène-Henry
Pier
Vittorio Aureli
Shumon
Basar
Sue
Barr
Mark
Cousins
Kate
Davies
Belinda
Flaherty
Hugo
Hinsley
Alex
Kaiser
Konstantinos
Kizis
Saskia
Lewis
Kirstie
Little
Antoni
Malinowski
Simine
Marine
Nina
McCallion
Joel
Newman
John
Ng
John
Palmesino
Anita
Pfauntsch
Christopher
Pierce
Sandra
Simmonds
Aileen
Smith
Theodore
Spyropoulos
Manolis
Stavrakakis
Antoine
Vaxelaire
Carlos
Villanueva Brandt
Open
week is from the 30th of October to the 3rd of November and it would
be great if one of the walks takes place then - I know quite a few
units are away then but maybe I can trace which ones will be in
London? So we know roughly that we can count on students.
I
will bring tomorrow some examples for the visual identity of the
walks.
Andreea Visilcin ( Inter 10 )
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