The Architecture of Loss – 3rd Annual MRes Architecture Colloquium
24 June 2020 | 1pm 5pm
This event will be facilitated via Zoom.
What is the relationship between loss and inequality in the city? 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?
Over the past four months, students from the MRes RCA Architecture have been engaged with these questions, and now invite participation in this colloquium workshop on The Architecture of Loss.
The afternoon (1–5pm) will be a facilitated workshop/discussion on the relationship of architecture, space, inequality, loss, individual and collective ritual, and grief in the city. Participants will be asked to bring a short five minute intervention in the form of an image or images, video or audio work, a short text, or a description of research interests, community work or activism that explore these ideas. Contributions can very much be work in progress, current thoughts, provocations for discussion.
The workshop adopts an emergent method developed in the ‘Feelings of Structure’ workshops by Yoke-Sum Wong and Karen Engle.* In this method, a schedule is not drawn up, rather participants offer to present their work when they feel it connects to an idea, project, or previous participant on the day. This allows for an emerging collectively made discussion. The colloqium will end with a discussion of participants’ own ideas about the architecture of loss and rituals for collective grief.
We invite participants from all backgrounds and interests – no formal knowledge of architecture or urban planning is required. Students at the Masters and Doctoral level are encouraged to attend as well as those outside any institutional affiliation.
Price/Booking Information: Spaces are limited to encourage active participation. To attend, please send an email introducing yourself, and a short note (100 words max) about your interest in the topic to Adam Kaasa ([email protected]) by Monday 15 June. You will be informed of your participation by Wednesday 17 June, and full details of the event circulated then.