The Architecture of Loss: RCA MRes x Architecture Foundation

What is the relationship between architecture and loss? How can loss be understood as a mechanism that is distributed unequally across intersections of race, ability, sexuality, gender, geography and class? How is loss spatialised? How does ritual figure in the history of urban loss? What is the relationship between urban change, memory, ritual, loss and grief? Organised by the MRes RCA: Architecture students at the Royal College of Art.

Speakers

Francesca Dell'Aglio is an architect and writer. Her research considers how the history of architecture is the history of bodies in space. She is a tutor at the Architectural Association and at the Royal College of Art where she is also a PhD candidate.

Ibiye Camp’s art practice focuses on postcolonial subjectivities, technology, and the built environment in West Africa. She designed a fashion series called 'Such A Fan', which has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2016). Her first solo show took place at Kanya Berlin in 2017, and she contributed to the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial in 201920.

Chair

Adam Kaasa's work moves between urban theory, facilitation and performance. As an interdisciplinary scholar he specialises in the intersection of culture, history and inequality in the city, foregrounding the role of architecture and design.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85299737228?pwd=blpPcmJyYWZQM3VVT0g0Wlh3K29EQT09