Architectures of Education (2019)
A two-day convening on the education and horizons of knowledge production today in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University, University of Nottingham, Kingston University, and e-flux Architecture
Planning Game at the Notting Dale Urban Studies Centre, 1980. Courtesy of Sol Perez-Martinez and The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Local Studies & Archives.
Ho Rui An, Student Bodies (2019), video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, as pedagogical ideals change, so have their architectural form. The spatial organisation of learning is a field of design that includes the positioning of bodies, the texture and colour of surfaces, the proportionality of objects, programmatic offerings, time scheduling, and beyond. Similarly, learning can be seen as a subject of design, as the process of crafting minds and characters. With the advancement not just of new learning models but new learning technologies, the classroom and education of tomorrow may not look like how it did today.
Architectures of Education brought together some of the brightest thinkers and practitioners investigating the relationship between architecture and the cultures of education today. The convening was complemented by an online issue with contributions from the speakers, crossposted on e-flux Architecture and The Contemporary Journal, the digital strand of the Public Programmes and Research at Nottingham Contemporary.
Irit Rogoff, The Research Turn
Ho Rui An, Student Bodies (2019)
Talks by Ramon Amaro and ruangrupa (farid rakun)
Co-curators
Nick Axel, Bill Balaskas, Nikolaus Hirsch, and Carolina Rito
Contributors
Ramon Amaro, Sarah Amsler, Kehinde Andrews, Aoife Donnelly and Kristin Trommler, Tom Holert, Anna-Maria Meister, Irit Rogoff, ruangrupa (farid rakun), Ho Rui An, Ola Uduku and Mary Vaughan Johnson.
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e-flux architecture editorial
e-flux architecture issue
The Contemporary Journal
Critical Pedagogies issue