AHRA PhD Student Symposium 2024 Day 1 / Invisible Actants: undoing, remaking and building-with.
1:30pm – Table Manners: Reshaping the Institutional “Opentable”, Organised by Section of Architectural Workers, SAW- Unite
Speakers:
Reham Elwakil (Cambridge University)
Maia Rollo (SAW Campaigns)
Jordan Whitewood-Neal (DisCollective)
Chair: Cristina Gaidos (SAW Campaigns)
Invisible Actants seeks to explore the importance of stories that go beneath, beside, and between normative architectural conditions, questioning the traditional methods and research tools used in architectural practice, research, and historiography.
Hosted at the Architectural Association over two days, the AHRA PhD Student Symposium 2024 brings together PhD candidates and young researchers from various institutions in the UK and abroad to present their work, engage in roundtable discussions, and collectively reflect on how invisible stories enact defiance and resistance. Drawing inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin’s concept of a ‘carrier bag’, foregrounding complexity and mundane aspects of existence becomes the terrain for exploring ways of imagining otherwise.
On the first day of the event, the roundtable discussions will invite us to explore the body as a thinking tool, unveil invisible types of knowledge through stories from across the globe, and dissect the importance of reshaping existing methods and practices in pursuit of transformative justice. On the second day, the various sessions will aim to trace ruptures in and dismantle monolithic narratives, reveal struggles for equality and everyday practices of living-with.
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The symposium is organised by the AA PhD Programme.
