City Voices Symposium at the Royal Academy
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Facilitation’ and ‘Documentation’. This symposium brings together some of the most exciting emerging talent in architecture to discuss how we think about cities, film and living together.
LINA is a European platform that brings together emerging creatives from across the continent who are responding to pressing issues like climate change, the housing crisis and ongoing conflicts. This event brings together LINA fellows with local practitioners to respond to the themes of the London Festival of Architecture (voices) and the Summer Exhibition (dialogues).
The event will be broken up in to two sessions, each addressing a different topic.
Facilitation, chaired by Lou-Atessa Marcellin
Utilising their architectural education, Rubble and Community Maintenance Club are using local materials and community knowledge to create physical interventions and new frameworks for making.
Documentation, chaired by Marko Milovanovic
Over 2 million hours of video footage is uploaded to the internet every day. Film and video are now a major part of making and architecture is no exception. docar. are using film to talk about how we navigate space and the afterlives of buildings. Learn more about their process and be the first to see one of their new films in this session. Joining them is Norman Mine, performance artist and member of the 2024 cohort of PolyVocalCity. He will present and explain the collaborative process behind ParasiteTV, a four-episode show created by his cohort, which explores imagined urban narratives.
Lou-Atessa Marcellin is Director at Theatrum Mundi. Lou researches ideas of ecosophy in the ecological framework which interconnects social and environmental spheres. With a background in fine art, a graduate of the Royal College of Art (MA Performance) and UAL Camberwell College of Art (BA Photography), she founded the multidisciplinary research platform Diaspore and more recently a seasonal school called RONCES exploring the making of landscapes in the rural and the urban environment. She has been a visiting lecturer for UAL, the Royal College of Art, The Slade and Goldsmiths University.
Marko Milovanovic is an architect, artist and journalist. He is the founder of the knowledge and space production practice Mylomark and the educational conversational platform Free School Of. Marko’s research and practice revolve around cross-disciplinary dialogues, time-based media, and craft, framed within wider phenomenological and metaphysical discourses. In addition to teaching at the RCA, Marko currently leads an MArchD design studio at Oxford Brookes University and an undergraduate studio at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.