Situated Practice: Live

Situated Practice: Live presents a sequence of moments through which Situated Practice MA students share their work with the public across London. Visitors are invited to participate in immersive performances, attend screenings, walk streets and paths, hear readings, share stories and contribute to workshops and discussions.

Intergenerational Symposium on Design and the Ageing Brain

Dieuwke Cappaert
Wednesday 16 October, 14:00-15:00
Room G.08, The Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street, WC1H 0QB

Dieuwke will present her work on the ageing brain, memory loss and how older people shape their home environments spatially. Using an installed drawing as a prompt Dieuwke will discuss graphic drawing as a method for research and communication in the field of design for the ageing brain. A sample box of spatial tactics devised from research of her grandfather’s house will be presented and explained.
Invited contributors from different fields will offer a short comment on this work and the topics it touches on, with opportunity for questions to be asked about the future of design for our ageing population.

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The Possibility of a Common Ground, contradictions & paradoxes

Ignacio Saavedra
Wednesday 16 October, 15:30-17:30
Room 1.02, The Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street, WC1H 0QB

In this interactive workshop, Ignacio will prepare a space for an open dialogue, with the purpose of sharing positions, experiences, logics of understanding and practical approaches to the new ways of operating in areas where art and architecture are intertwined.

There will be opportunity to use and contribute to a collection of materials that will become a tool to enter into dialogue with others. Participants in the workshop will deconstruct expertise and produce new collective readings and knowledge around this emerging field.

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A Lunar Perspective

Eloise Maltby Maland
Wednesday 16 October, 18:00-20:30
North Observatory, UCL, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

Eloise's performative reading of A Lunar Perspective travels in an irregular orbit around Lunar House, a UK Home Office Visa and Immigration building, to question how we map, control and understand our relationships to the land and the people around us.

Eloise will perform this short piece inside UCL’s North Observatory, using the work to question the practices of bordering and othering which are present in the front line of UK immigration policies and made manifest in Lunar House.

Through this orbital journey, A Lunar Perspective touches upon themes of astronomy, mapping and bordering to explore connections, real and imagined, between the body, the land and the sky and to examine the politics of traversing the border.

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The Emancipated Hill

Luofei Dong
Thursday 17 October, 1400-15:00
Northala Fields, Kensington Road, Northolt, UB5 6UR

This installation/performance is part of Luofei's project The Emancipated Hill/隐山, which attempts to address these questions:

What happens when a hill vanishes in a city, with its architectures and its people?

How will a hill emancipate itself?

Luofei will invite visitors to collectively install light and ephemeral bamboo structures, which originate from the traditional Japanese ceremonial meal of ‘flowing-water ramen’. The installation/performance will celebrate the situatedness of being on the hill and reveal the problematics of the contemporary urban ‘green’ place-making; considering landscape as a resource to be extracted, economically valuable and exclusive, ‘pleasantly designed’ views that reinforce class divisions.

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This event involves travelling from one site to another, if you have any physical access queries please contact us at least one day in advance.

Constructing Realities: Landscapes of Ladino

Anastasia Perahia Dede
Thursday 17 October, 18:30-20:30
Old Baths, Hackney Wick, E9 5JH

This event is part of The Bartlett's Constructing Realities Lecture Series, an informal discussion series exploring the current trends in the making, process and design of our built environment.
Anastasia will present a video exploring the nexus of language and landscape through the disappearance of Judeao-Spanish/Ladino in Greece.

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Constructing Realities: Il Balcone

Valeria Muteri
Thursday 17 October, 18:30-20:30
Old Baths, Hackney Wick, E9 5JH

This event is part of The Bartlett's Constructing Realities Lecture Series, an informal discussion series exploring the current trends in the making, process and design of our built environment.
Valeria will give a performative reading from an installed ‘balcony’ representing the main dissident found in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Giuseppe Cimarosa. Son of a cousin of the current mafia Godfather, Giuseppe has responded to the family by declaring his position against the mafia publicly. The project is an homage to his brave act of resistance.

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Embodying Land Values

Shivani Shah in collaboration with dancers and choreographers Camilla Isola, Gladys Wen, Iris Athanasiadi and Sophie Holland
Friday 18 October, 17:00-18:00
Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, EC2R 8AH

Shivani's collaborative site-specific performance uses human movement to reveal an alternative measure of the value of land in the Bank Junction to its workers. The performance aims to cause shifts in the land value momentarily and raise consciousness among the users of the site.
Shivani references language used by profit-driven real estate developers for explaining land value calculations. This intentionally mystifying language aims to derive the highest economic value from a piece of land and creates blind spots which are used by developers as opportunities to distort the projected values of land. The effects of this can be seen in the form of extortionate rents which are destroying the way human life is organised and the cities we live in built.

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Activation of the Thames Estuary

Jerneja Rebernak
Friday 18 October, 18:30-19:30
RAW Labs, Norton Quays, Royal Albert Wharf, E16 2QP

This interactive project invites visitors to consider their future in a post-flood scenario where climate emergency has been declared and extreme rising sea level is impacting the Thames Estuary. Jerneja critically questions how locative technologies could uncover different possibilities for collective architectures.

Visitors will have the opportunity to create an imaginary soundscape by exploring the liminal edge of the river through a collective walk using a local area network (LAN) infrastructure. As non-human living entities, water and waves, will intermingle in a temporary sound intervention activated by the presence of the audience.

The Planetary Institute is the sensorial and spatio-temporal embodied presence of the practitioner within the landscape.

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Tracing the Tow Path

Sophie Hardcastle
Saturday 19 October, 14:00-14:45
Hackney Wick Station, Wallis Road, E9 5LN

Sophie’s intervention invites visitors to take part in a collective act of walking to explore the importance of specificity, sensitivity and subjectivity within the built environment and challenge the detached, dis-embodied and distanced practices that surround urban transformation.
Participants are invited to hear the voices of the local community and welcomed to challenge their own position, perspective and interpretation of the landscape. During this intervention Sophie queries:

How can the concept of ‘situated knowledges’ be harnessed within discourses of urban planning?

How can contemporary urban practices become located within a site and grounded within the surrounding context?

How can we celebrate embodied knowledges and come to value voices that are locatable, accountable and responsible?

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An independent and flexible and precarious and overworked rehearsal

Ignacio Rivas
Saturday 19 October, 16:00-17:30
Hackney, please see Eventbrite for exact location

Ignacio’s collaboratively produced performative event relates and intersects the stories of a group of independent workers in East London. Using a narrative that shifts through time and space, the event reflects on the precarity of the flexible labour practices in our present society. Ignacio responds to the increasingly difficult to define differences between our work environment and our own lives.
The collective actions of this open rehearsal seek to expose the ‘everyday’ and the ‘personal’ in a public sphere in order to question the contemporary idealisation of the independent and flexible working style, that encourages competition, personal entrepreneurship and self-definition over the collective ideals of society.

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This event involves travelling from one site to another, if you have any physical access queries please contact us at least one day in advance.

Essay Films

Sound, image, voice. We harness the power of the essay-film as a flexible medium.
To essay, to assay, to weigh: we use the form to produce critical thought and to engage with new publics.