TM co-leads Spatial Practices studio with Jayden Ali for a second year

Studio 4 (D): Performing Architectural Citizenship

Theatrum Mundi is excited to co-host with Jayden Ali an MArch studio in the Spatial Practices programme at CSM for a second year. 

The studio will explore, though a performative lens, what it means to be an architectural citizen in our contemporary world of cultural collision. Specifically, it will foreground notions of displacement – a feeling of being foreign and ill at ease.

One may be displaced physically: the immigrant, the exile, the expatriate – a condition where, for one reason or another, one is forced across borders to seek out sanctuary. But one may also be displaced socially: the outcast, the misfit, the pariah – a condition where collective cultural identity has shifted, leaving some behind. In both instances, displacement is representative of a detachment from territory, whether that territory be physical or metaphysical. 

It is at this intersection of the material and immaterial that the studio will focus, for the city is composed of infrastructural forces – permanent and/or fleeting processes, networks and economies which come together to facilitate forms of social governance, practice, communication, expression – that extend beyond the ‘built’ environment.