AA Files 77 Launch

On September 22 we will launch AA Files 77 with a virtual roundtable with some of the authors who contributed to the ‘Home’ section of this issue – a special File that gathers a series of reflections on the changed meaning of being home during lockdown. AA Files 77 is structured as a series of thematic Files covering topics that range from ecological conservation to the architecture of logistics; this launch event highlights a File that was created as a response to the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 outbreak. While it is too early to assess yet what kind of impact the pandemic has had on the way architecture is produced and experienced, the Home File opens up a moment of discussion on the small scale changes that affect the everyday lives of all those who live and work from home, as well as casting a critical light on what it means to write, read, and publish in the present condition. Charles Rice, Ethel Barona Pohl, Harriet Harriss, Peer Illner, and Socks Studio’s Fosco Lucarelli and Mariabruna Fabrizi will share their perspectives with AA Files editor Maria Shéhérazade Giudici, in a discussion that will challenge all the participants to reimagine ways in which designers, teachers, and students can exploit the condition of social distancing as a (paradoxical) platform for new kinds of political agency.