N.A.W. Takeover: The second cohort of the New Architecture Writers present a month-long digital takeover from 01 – 30 October 2020 of exploring the changing nature of architectural criticism. Their first discussion, streamed on Thursday 01 October 2020, is a response to their first event held in July 2019: ‘Drawing the Edge to the Centre’.
“Going even further, we want to push this conversation beyond the geographical and towards the personal and theoretical. We want to get into the uncomfortable truth of labour in relation to architectural production and making. To critically examine the movement of language that has historically belonged to the ‘edge’ (like the word ‘decolonisation’). If architecture’s intimate relationship with power is essential to its realisation, what does a decolonised architectural practice look like?”
You can find paired reading materials for this event here: https://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/news/n.a.w.-takeover-drawing-the-edge-to-the-centre-2
This event was hosted by N.A.W. Members Nasra Abdullahi & Nana Biamah-Ofosu with panel members, Ibrahim Mahama, artist based in Tamale, Ghana; Akil Scafe-Smith, designer and researcher based in London, U.K & Miriam Hillawi, designer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Find the rest of the season here: https://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/news/n.a.w-takeover-oct-2020
ABOUT NEW ARCHITECTURE WRITERS
New Architecture Writers is a free programme for emerging design writers, developing the journalistic skill, editorial connections and critical voice of its participants. N.A.W. focuses on black and minority ethnic emerging writers who are under-represented across design journalism and curation. The core of the N.A.W. programme consists of a series of evening workshops, talks, and writing briefs with one-to-one mentoring from experienced design critics and editors throughout.
The second cohort (2019-20) of the New Architecture Writers consists of Nasra Abdullahi, Shawn Adams, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Lois Innes, Ewa Effiom, Ting Jui and Jasper van der Kort.
Founded in 2017, N.A.W. is run by Thomas Aquilina and Tom Wilkinson with support from the Architecture Foundation. The open call for the third cohort will be announced imminently, and details of how to apply will be posted on our website.
You can donate to the N.A.W. programme here http://newarchitecturewriters.org/news/donate/
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