The Social in Architecture: Provisional Demos

The Spatial Agency and Tent Cities   

The second in a series of public events connected to the theme of 'the social in architecture', this talk by Mabel O. Wilson builds on a number of events that have taken place at the ICA recently, such as Urban Planning as Social Cleansing, the Architects for Social Housing residency and A Heavy Nonpresence: Housing Workshop.  

Wilson's talk responds to questions about the role of architecture in situations of precarity and the breakdown of social structures along with notions of public space. This includes themes such as migration and temporary housing, the social use of history and memory, and structures of inequality and separation.   

The previous event in this series addressed the question of the social through the neoliberal concepts of risk and opportunity in the production, design and consumption of housing in the United States.  

Preceding the public talk, from 3-5pm, is a closed seminar for CHASE PhD students, social housing residents and activists. The seminar includes presentations by Romola Sanyal, Lukazs Stanek and John Lagae. The overall theme for the day will be 'Architecture, crisis, and social sustainability’.  

If you are interested in attending the closed seminar, please email astrid.korporaal@ica.art

This series of public events and training seminars on Architecture and the Social is organised in partnership with the Architecture, Space and Society Centre (ASSC) at Birkbeck University and supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England