As part of the Summer Public Programme, Shumon Basar brings together a range of cultural figures for a set of interdisciplinary conversations around change changing.
The vibe keeps shifting. Art movements used to last decades; now memes barely last a day. That’s the thing about change: it won’t stop changing. And changing. It makes the present more impossible to predict. Welcome to the end of the end of HSTRY.
In these presentations and conversations with leading architects, academics, content makers and critics, Shumon Basar explores today’s new endings and new beginnings via multiverses and metaverses, Balenciaga and archipelagos, the Chinese Dream and HSTRY2. Featuring isolarii publisher Sebastian Clark, economics critic Jacob Dreyer, academic Dr Daniel Felstead, media stream and community New Models (Caroline Busta and Lil Internet), editor/advisor Charlie Robin Jones, educator Natasha Sandmeier and architect Sumayya Valli.
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Sebastian Clark is the founder of isolarii, a media company launched in 2020 that began with a series of books by creative figures throughout the world. They are designed to be distributed internationally by alternative means and have received recognition for their timeliness. Previously, he was a political analyst in Kashmir, Sicily, and the Pearl River Delta. He was also formerly a PhD student at the Architectural Association.
Jacob Dreyer is a Shanghai-based researcher into the Chinese political economy and built environment, working as senior editor at the publisher Palgrave as well as frequently contributing to Noema magazine in English, FT Chinese in Chinese, and a wide range of other publications. He has been writing about the vanishing of “Chimerica.”
Dr. Daniel Felstead is Course Leader of MA Fashion Media & Communication at the London College of Fashion (UAL), and co-founder of Emergence of Tomorrow, an interdisciplinary discussion space and community think-tank positioned at the intersection of fashion, culture, and technology.
Charlie Robin Jones is former staff editor at 032c, the Guardian, Real Review and Dazed. He now advises organisations on their presence in the world, writes a quarterly column on fashion for Flash Art, and is concerned with finding ways for the emancipatory ideas contained in radical culture to infiltrate global discourse.
Natasha Sandmeier is an architect, educator and founding partner of Office UR (OUR). Her work and research straddles the worlds of architecture and visualization, with a long-standing interest in the role of media within the creation and production of speculative architectures and environments. She leads the postgraduate Entertainment Studio at UCLA Architecture & Urban Design. She is the author and editor of Little Worlds: a monograph of projects and essays re-examining the role of the architect within contemporary architectural culture.
Sumayya Vally is Principal of the Johannesburg-based practice Counterspace. Vally’s design, research and pedagogical practice is searching for expression for hybrid identities and territory, particularly for African and Islamic conditions. Her design process is often forensic, and draws on the aural, performance, the supernatural, and the overlooked as generative places of history and work. She was the architect of the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion, and is the curator of the first Islamic Arts Biennale, set to take place in Jeddah in 2023.
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