Join Conor Clarke, Director Design Factory, Founder & Course Leader, Design West,  Jordan Ralph of Studio Drop and Jeffrey Bolhuis + Laurence Lord of Design + Research studio, AP+E for conversation relating to context of a summer school in Galway.

Part of a series of conversations, hosted by Niall Maxwell from Rural Office for Architecture, where creative practitioners are invited to discuss their own practice and engagement strategies to inform how Galway may host its own summer school in 2021. 

Join Xenia Adjoubei, @artaslabour , Niklas Fanelsa, Atelier Fanelsa, and Professor Andrew Clancy, Drawing Matter, architecture summer school, Somerset, for a conversation on three different international summer school models, looking at varying methods of practise, pitfalls, and pleasures.

Part of a series of conversations, hosted by Niall Maxwell from Rural Office for Architecture, where creative practitioners are invited to discuss their own practice and engagement strategies to inform how Galway may host its own summer school in 2021.

Link via https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87376224467?pwd=cmlLcHZHb3hOOG1GZHU1QnMrM090dz09

Xenia Adjoubei (MA Dip.Arch) is a researcher and architect, Director of AdjoubeiScottWhitby Studio and 2021 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Pratt Institute, New York City, working on proposals for how rural technologies and collective craft practices can improve quality of life in cities. Xenia has run Design Studios in universities in Europe and Russia, is founder of the Nikola-Lenivets Classroom (Russia) a research and education centre based in the largest art park in Europe, which is part of the Global Free Unit decentralised network for education. Her research and design projects cover topics such as Degrowth, the New Rural: a village for the future; Art as Labour: how art creates and sustains communities; Virtual Museum in the Open Air: digital mapping of the natural environment. 

Recently Xenia led the Sol y Sombraproject, which proposes solutions to aid the South American migration crisis through creating digital shared spaces for support and improvement of migrant and host communities' physical environments. Xenia’s interest lies in how new technologies can complement ‘designing through making’ with the hand, which is the subject of the Tectonic Performance: the Science and Craft of Building MA studio she co-teaches with Alejandro Haiek and Carl-Johan Vesterlund in Umeå University, Sweden. @artaslabour

Atelier Fanelsa is an international team of architects based in Berlin and Gerswalde (Brandenburg). The studio investigates contemporary forms of working, living and commoning in the countryside, the periphery, and the city. We realize private projects, public buildings, exhibitions, and workshops. Within these formats we develop innovative and qualitative answers to questions regarding the conditions of today’s society.

Atelier Fanelsa was founded by Niklas Fanelsa (*1985) in 2016, having studied Architecture at RWTH Aachen University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. After his studies Niklas Fanelsa worked for De Vylder Vinck Taillieu in Gent and Thomas Baecker Bettina Kraus Architekten in Berlin. He was also a Teaching and Research Associate at RWTH Aachen University, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, and the Chair for Design and Housing at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. In 2019/20, he is Emerging Curator at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal.

Andrew Clancy is an architect with Clancy Moore in Dublin, and Professor of Architecture at the Kingston School of Art in London.

Jes Fernie, Lee Ivett, (Baxendale), and Alexander Römer, (ConstructLab), for conversation about working in the public realm and mixed disciplinary practice. Understanding how to make things happen, by what means to creatively respond, and if/when it is suitable to deploy guerrilla tactics.

Thursday 26th November at 7:30pm
via zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85887945920?pwd=OXYyYnI5T0kyR1htN2Z6UDFlWVNYdz09

Hosted by Niall Maxwell, Rural Office for Architecture 

Jes Fernie is an independent curator and writer based in Essex, UK. She works with galleries, architectural practices and public realm organisations on public programmes, commissioning schemes, exhibitions and residency projects across the UK and abroad. Working primarily beyond gallery walls, she is interested in an expansive idea of contemporary artistic practice, which encompasses dialogue, research and engagement. She writes and lectures widely and has worked with a broad range of organisations including Tate, Manchester International Festival, Serpentine Gallery, Flat Time House, RIBA, Skissernas Museum, Arts Council England, Central St Martins, Milton Keynes Gallery, Lund Cathedral, St Paul’s Cathedral and the RCA.

Lee Ivett is an architect and designer and founder of Baxendale Studio. His mode of practice is intensely generative, developing low-budget socially-focused projects that test and establish changes in behavior and circumstance within marginalised communities of people and place. Lee has been recognized internationally for the impact and quality of his work and was selected for inclusion in New Architects 3 - a survey of the best British architects to have set up practice since 2005 and has recently produced critically acclaimed work representing Scotland at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Lee is also under-graduate programme leader at the Grenfell-Baines Institute of Architecture in his home city of Preston.

Alexander Römer studied carpentry and architecture. He founded ConstructLab as a forum for participative design-build projects in 1998. In 2005 he joined the Parisian collective EXYZT and worked on many projects among others the French contribution to the 10th architecture biennial in Venice 2006. With the idea of ConstructLab and its network of designers, builders, architects, photographs, graphic designers, gardeners or cooks he initiated and designed numerous projects internationally.

Part 3 off 5 a series of conversations where creative practitioners are invited to discuss their own practice and engagement strategies to inform how Galway may host its own summer school in 2021.

In case you've missed it see; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCepd5O8ObFQAu2FCYpipeuw?view_as=subscriber

Daisy Froud, AOC Architecture Ltd, Sebastião de Botton, Colectivo Warehouse, and Mhairi McVicar , Community Gateway, joined for conversation relating to techniques of engagement / co-creation.

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Meeting ID: 858 9790 3225

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Daisy Froud is a strategist specialising in ‘community engagement’ and participatory design, with a particular focus on collaborative and deliberative decision-making. Having started her career in environmental campaigning and community-led regeneration, from 2003 to 2014 Daisy was a founding director of architecture practice AOC and in 2014 was shortlisted for The AJ’s Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award. She is a Teaching Fellow at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where she lectures on the history and theory of spatial politics, and a Mayoral Design Advocate, advising on community engagement, to the Mayor of London.

Warehouse is an architecture and art collective founded in 2013. In our search for what architecture is nowadays and what role the architects play, Warehouse fundaments its architectural praxis through design, experimentation, mediation, civic participation processes, collaboration and practical intervention. Warehouse develops participatory architecture projects in the cultural and social scope. These processes lead to results with greater impact in the emerging urban landscape. Warehouse seeks to contribute to the collective and responsible construction of the public and private space. We understand the role of the architect as a mediator, aware of the impact that urban space activation initiatives and social interventions have with the communities that inhabit the city. The idiosyncratic factor of the collective is its ability to design and build their own projects. Hands-on approach is transversal in our practice. Warehouse develops collaborative projects because we believe that through co-creation and multidisciplinary, it’s possible to achieve better results.
see http://warehouse.pt/about/

Dr Mhairi McVicar is Project Lead of Community Gateway, overseeing a community-university engagement platform through a team who facilitate over 50 partnership projects between Grangetown and Cardiff University, including the £1.6 million community-led partnership redevelopment of a vacant civic building. She joined WSA in 2006, following practice in the USA and UK. Is an RIBA Affiliate member, former Chair of Design Circle RSAW South, having acted as juror on the RIBA President's Medal for Dissertations and the National Eisteddfod Gold Medal for Architecture, and co-ordinated several national architectural exhibitions. In 2017, Community Gateway was awarded the Professor Sir David Watson international award, and Mhairi received Leading Wales' Leadership in the Public Sector award.