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...............invitation to do a short presentation at a half-day symposium on the future of architectural education on Friday, 29 May from 3-7pm.
Titled Urgent Futures: Architectural Education in 2025 -
the symposium invites different voices from across the school to
contribute their ideas to shape the future of a world that needs new
referents about the social, political, technological, and material
agency that architects are able to produce within the designed
environment and to reflect about the fundamental aspects of
architectural education from the History & Theory curriculum to the
making of buildings, while identifying new areas of design and
speculation about the near and urgent future.................
Dear
Manijeh , thanks for the invitation to Urgent
Futures
We
regret DUE TO PRIOR COMMITMENTS that AALAWuN cannot be available . TO
APPEAR VIRTUALLY LIVE, LITRALLY LIVE, ZOOMILOCALLY WITH YOU,
However
LAWuN
appreciates any interest in ITS
work and perhaps the AA is the only school that would give it ‘home
‘ ALIVE
OR DEAD
The
original description of AALAWuN’s tasks was made in 2016
and is available on blog ?
Trouble
is when
I hear
that title "A symposium on the Future Of
architectural education " the heart sinks
I
just reach for a gun !
Breaking
News , the AA has decided that it no longer defines
or experiments with the future of architectural education and
indeed architecture, and indeed the protocols of education
through the work of its students and tutors , it needs a
symposium to do this . ! TAKE
A LEAF FROM THE MICKEY ROONEY AND JUDY GARLAND STRIKE UP THE BAND
FILM - THEY DIDN’T WAIT ON A SYMPOSIUM TO DO SOMETHING THEY WOULD
JUST DO THE SHOW THERE AND THEN; HERE AND NOW!
It
was interesting to hear Paul Smith being very nostalgic
on the
radio about
the old days when he used to say to me he was the Archigram of
British Fashion .. he was now regretting the loss of the
seasonal fashion shows ..... spring , autumn etc coinciding with
the moon and tides ...sorry Paul you’ve lost it !
But
now ..
It's
every 2 weeks a new idea ... from anywhere on the planet ..
Time
and location screwed , rearranged by 4g ,5 g ?
So
perhaps the AA should take a hint from this new normal fashion
timetable ?
Timetables
are yesterday.
Where
you are matters ?
Assessment ,
by whom and in whose interest ?
A
new vocabulary is needed .
No
matter how often you weigh the pig it wont make it any fatter
Academic
calendars are an anchronism ( who said a
degree took 3 years )
Tutors
are
The
planet is a university
What
do we need the university for ???
Definitely
not for data , maybe information , tutors not teachers .
Unless
that is 5 g and its planetary infrastructure get demolished by
war or ?
AALAWuN
in 19// campaigned for a Moratorium on Building
Big
failure
Mark
Fisher used to Taunt me ... " still a lot of a lot of
new building David !'
Nevertheless
suddenly the question is forgrounded by what are buildings , why do
we need them ?
AA
, divest yourself of all that property , think about other strategies
.
We
luckily do not know the future , But we can attempt to understand
the present .
McLuhan
warned us the present is the most difficult project , like the fish
we cannot see the environment we swim in .
New
technology does not replace the previous technology , but it does
change its meaning
However
AA do not gaze into the narcissitic world of
architectrural education , look beyond IS
THIS BEYOND ANYTHING OR A POLITICALLY ENFORCED IMPOSITION ? to
the global implications of a new normal ? NEW
NONSENSE
Think
about Hakim Bey's plea to the world's students , "organise
a strike in your school on the grounds that it does
not satisfy your need for indolence and spiritual beauty ",
Indolence
as a power tool perhaps is that the educational
future realeased by 5g
You
ask about the Invisible university , Like LAWuN it is more a question
, and one that has now been made a reality by the covid lockdown
The
Tutorials we hld in Zetters Hotel bar in 19? And the first staff
meeting in regents P:ark 2004/5?? Are now a reality , zoom and its
family are crude but as a tool it will transform how we learn and
teach .
Urgent
Presents are the issue .
Constant
looking in the rear view mirror cause bad crashes , stay alert !
LAWuN
why don't we do the show right here!
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