Feeling Planning – MRes Architecture Colloquium
28 June 2019 | 9.30am 5pm
Show Architecture, The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, Lambeth, London SE1 7AG
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 Friday 21 June
How do we feel in urban space? How can intimate sensations, emotions and feelings come into discourses around planning for urban futures? Contesting the rational, colonial and gendered history of urban planning and planning law, students from the Master of Research in Architecture at the Royal College of Art invite participation in this colloquium workshop on ‘Feeling Planning’.
The first half of the day will be a facilitated workshop/discussion on the relationship of feelings, emotions, space and planning. 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, a description of research interests, community work, activism etc. that responds to or explores these ideas. After lunch, participants will go on a ‘Marking Feeling’ walk, where they will be introduced to concepts of care and feeling in the built environment through a collective act of walking and marking led by students from the MRes Architecture programme. Marking these forms of care in space becomes a way of mapping in real scale, drawing, thinking and participating. This walk forms part of the public programming of the London Festival of Architecture. The day will end with a collective discussion of participants’ own ideas about spatial care and feeling planning.
We invite participants from all backgrounds and with all interests – no formal knowledge of urban planning is required. Students at the MA and PhD/MPhil level are encouraged to attend.
This event has been organised by the MRes RCA: Architecture Pathway programme. For more information please contact Adam Kaasa.