‘Practices and Pedagogies’ is a public lecture series organised by Projective Cities MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design. The six talks aim to discuss models and forms of practice that intersect with architectural education – old, new, and emerging pedagogical agendas.
Yesterday was a disaster, tomorrow will be hell and yet here we stand, teaching and practicing architecture. Heaven does not need architects, only hell does. Theorist of speed and power Paul Virilio advocated for the creation of a School of Disaster. The invention of the 1000-passenger plane, he said, is also the invention of the 1000-casualty crash. Teaching and practicing architecture is to play this difficult game of finding a solution that will also create a problem. To practice and learn architecture is to accept to take a position, knowing that it won’t help while hoping that it might.
Traumnovelle is a militant faction of architecture founded by three Belgian architects: Léone Drapeaud, Manuel León Fanjul and Johnny Leya. Traumnovelle uses architecture and fiction as analytical, critical and subversive tools to address contemporary issues.
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