AA Approaches is a week-long festival of ideas to mark the start of the new academic year, a celebration of the AA’s 175th birthday and the beginning of Ingrid Schroder’s tenure as AA Director. This is an excellent moment to question what and how we teach, and the impact of the work we produce, at a moment characterised by rapid change and urgent global challenges. Each talk pairs two related yet contrasting themes, which draw upon legacies and lineages present within the school and reassess the strategies and methods that they have produced. It is an exciting opportunity to reflect on how different approaches have evolved and come to frame the more critical concerns of the immediate and more distant future. The academic year begins within this critical moment to stop and consider where we have been – to engage, to take responsibility, to reflect on where we are going and to respond with delight and hope, as well as fear and trembling.
The final session brings together contributors for whom architecture emerges as STORIES and those for whom the medium, the image, the drawing on the PAGE contains the complexity of a condition and its potential. Find out more here.
Speakers include: Fenella Collingridge, Adam Nathaniel Furman, Julia Koerner, Perry Kulper, Madelon Vriesendorp and MAciej Woroniecki.
