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JUN 2012
By Daniel Portilla — Filed under: Events ,Exhibition , Architectural Association, London
From next Friday 22nd will take place the AA Projects Review Exhibition. The place of the event is located in the Architectural Association’s main building at 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B3ES.
Projects Review offers an overview of the AA’s 2011/12 acadamic year. On display are hundreds of drawings, models, installations, phogographs and other materials documenting the diversity and experimental nature of the AA School.
‘At the AA architecture is pursued as a form of cultural knowledge, across year-long design projects and portfolios. We believe that truly great schools don’t just nurture and support architectural talent: they build audiences for experimentation, out of which new architectural ideas, visions and projects emerge. Please join us as part of this audience, which the AA remains committed to promoting at the cutting edge of architectural cuture, practice and learning.’
The access to this Friday event required invitation but will be free the rest of the days until 14th July.
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Inter 13 – Richard Leung, City Think Tank – a heterotopia that challenges the existing values of the City of London.
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Dip 6 – William Gowland, Here be Dragons: The unstable Landscapes of GPS – the world is now concealed and manipulated in ways that make answering the question of ‘where am I?’ an impossibility. Glitches in the big and fragile infrastructures of Global Positioning Systems mean we are sometimes both here and there, as a pulsing blue dot locates us to within 500m. What are the implications of a navigational system based solely on the virtual? Will, in our Department of Landscape Glitches, has jammed the GPS networks and revealed an alternative virtual topography, a territorial architecture of spoofed cartography. It is an emerging landscape that operates and exits in two parallel worlds, the physical and the virtual. Imaginary protest icebergs drift through the autonomously navigated oil shipping lanes. We get lost in a wilderness of illegal signal-jamming formations and we glimpse the faint flicker of covert militarised GPS territories, super stable under a secret sky of black satellites. Some are landscapes of misdirection, others are navigational markers guiding one safely through unstable terrain. We now put our faith in a digital territory that is just as unknown and fallible as the physical.
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Dip 3 – Fung Tsui – an inhabited wall linking Troy’s acropolis with the surrounding villages and functioning as a vast communal corridor.