Now is the moment to reinvent our cities and society. Culture can lead the way.
Following the official media announcement of the Nighttime Foundation on September 25—with features in Resident Advisor, MixMag Asia, and Attack Magazine —ADE Nighttime Lab served as its public debut.
The AA Interprofessional Studio (AAIS) is a unique programme exploring practices of spatial performance and design that reach beyond standard definitions of architecture and performance. The programme focuses on fields such as dance, theatre, music, exhibitions and festivals, with a focus on the sociopolitical effect of works in these fields.
Synthesising over 80 recent studies spanning neuroscience, cognitive science, environmental psychology, place-based studies, and urban design, this first of its kind Report demonstrates the measurable impact of façades in shaping body, mind and behaviour, with actionable insights to shape the future of our cities.
Emotional City was a two-day forum which brought together more than 300 participants – city leaders, creatives, academics, developers, designers and citizens – for leading-edge research, expert lectures and creative community projects to ask: how do the outsides of buildings affect our health and society? How do we create buildings people truly love, so that they last?
A honour to share my work on neuroscience and humanising our cities at the Biennale’s opening forum, Emotional City. Video here
Leading research for the Humanise, a 10 year global campaign to make our built environment more radically human and joyful.
Thanks to the Türkiye Design Council for the invitation to explore design origins and futures with bright minds in Istanbul, and to all who joined me on the big thought journey, from the Big Bang to humanitarian design and planetary sapience, Looking back and into the deep future to find our way forward, with hope, in catastrophic times.
“Placemaking, performance and infrastructures of belonging: the role of ritual healing and mass cultural gatherings in the wake of trauma” contributes to a wide-ranging series of essays from a global cohort of place leaders and communities on new approaches to placemaking from the perspective of trauma. More details here.
New essay, “On Making the Disappeared Reappear”, commissioned to accompany the exhibition currently at The Photographers’ Gallery London and catalog featuring Hrair Sarkissian and other nominees for the 2024 DBFP Prize. Read excerpts and order the catalog here.
Commissioned article on The Gallery.org.uk for The Artichoke Trust articulates the power of this thought-provoking, radically inclusive and barrier-breaking initiative in making the arts more democratic and fostering the creative citizenship at the heart of civic agency.
Glad to announce my involvement to develop and co-curate a new Project Space in the heart of Venice with colleague Jacek Ludwig Scarso as part of the Marta Czok Foundation.
Launched in conjunction with the 2023 Architecture Biennale and an official site for the 2024 Venice Art Biennale, Project Space Venezia brings works of the artist Marta Czok into dialogue with international artists, cultural organisations, researchers and thinkers.
Newly launched in our Project Space for the second part of an exhibition on The Rise and Fall of the Ideal City, a selection of films curated by Anna Marazuela Kim is a collaboration with Takflix, which partners with international organizations to showcase the best of Ukrainian cinema abroad.
Also featured are two recent films by Kyiv-based artists Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei. Taken together, this selection highlights the richness of Ukrainian culture–from its priceless cultural heritage under threat to its cities and ways of life, including artistic, and is presented in solidarity with Ukraine, its cultural workers still in its cities and in exile.
Winning bid for summer installation and activation by MA cohort, Public Art and Performative Practices, London Metropolitan University, sponsored by Aldgate Connect.
Senior Researcher and Contributing Writer for the London Studios at 72 Upper Ground, a groundbreaking strategy for a creative ecosystem of innovation. Commissioned by Futurecity.