The TF/TK project is delighted to announce that our Production Studies: Work in Progress lecture series launches live next week with 'Concrete Experiments’ on Wednesday 12 October 6.30-8.00 at Central St Martins, London, and online. The series is hosted by Central Saint Martins and Spatial Practices and continues with events on Thursday evenings through October and November. Please find details and the link to register for free (registration required for either in-person attendance at Central Saint Martins, London or to receive the live Zoom link). Please circulate widely to any networks and others who may be interested.
https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins/whats-on-at-csm/production-studies-work-in-progress
Concrete Experiments - Production Studies: Work in Progress 1
Location: LVMH Lecture Theatre, Central St. Martins, 1 Granary Square King's Cross London (also live streamed on Zoom with link).
Time: Wednesday 12 October 6.30-8.00 p.m.
Discussing the role and relevance of technical aid past and present for emancipatory practices of building with:
João Marcos de Almeida Lopes (Brazil, USP-SC) – founder of Usina CTAH
Mary Kelly (UK) – Freeform, ACTAC and WDS.
Martin Hughes(UK) - Support
Sol Perez Martinez (ETH, UCL) – Spatial Engagement Network
Jorge Fiori (AA)
Alex Warnock Smith (CSM) – chair
This first of two sessions showcasing contemporary examples from Brazil of what Sérgio Ferro described as ‘concrete experiments with the possibilities of emancipatory practice’ introduces the work of technical advisory Usina CTAH who since 1990 have enabled social movements and land occupiers to build more than 5000 homes. We revisit the history of architects’ engagement with technical aid in the UK, and discuss with practitioners and academics - what are the challenges and potentials for the provision of technical aid today?
For the other talks in the series please see below.
We look forward to seeing you at the sessions in person and online,
Best wishes,
- Katie Lloyd Thomas, Will Thomson and the TF/TK Project Team
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Production Studies: Work in Progress
A lecture series from the TF/TK Project www.tf-tk.com in collaboration with Central St Martins. CSM, LMVH. Weds 12 October and Thursday evenings, 20 October - 17 November 2022, 6.30-8.00.
Drawing on the work of the Brazilian theorist Sérgio Ferro, who has conducted the single most sustained enquiry into design from the perspective of labour and the construction site available in any language, PS: Work in Progress challenges the tendency of architectural theorists, historians, and designers to sideline the industrial, technical, and socio-economic contexts in which building is constituted—or to maintain that these are not the proper concerns of architecture. At a time when enslavement and deaths at building sites make international headlines, and the distance is growing between architects and the sites of production for their design, accompanied by the increasing deskilling, precarization and forced migration of construction workers across the globe, we ask what critical tools and methods can we employ to do this work, and what alternative forms of practice can we identify? The series explores the 3 areas of action, which Ferro argued in his persuasive talk at CSM in February 2022, are needed to develop the possibility of 'The Emancipatory Building Site'.*
Emancipatory Practices - 2
Thursday 20 October 6.30-8.00 pm
Beyond Separated Design - 3 (followed by Matrix Making Space book launch with original book authors)
Thursday 27 October 6.30-8.00/ 9.30 pm
Building Alliances - 4
Thursday 3 November 6.30-8.00 pm
Production Pedagogies - 5
Thursday 17 November 6.30-8.00 pm
*From Ferro's abstract for his February 2022 talk: 'An experimental building site that aims at emancipation and real social needs requires a course of action involving three basic dimensions:
1) drawing on what is available to us today in the field of building;
2) deepening the theoretical and practical critique of the current mode of production as it manifests itself in this field;
3) concretely experimenting with the possibilities of emancipatory practices.'
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