The conversation will focus on institutions surrounding and mitigating architectural and urban design practice; governing and licensing bodies, local authorities, those forces which are at once nebulous and pervasive, and which have more impact on the realisation of the built environment than the singular genius of any designer. Institutionalised hopes to question the validity of top-down institutionalism such as is represented by RIBA, ARB and other disparate bodies, as well as the agenda and parameters such institutions provide for architectural and urban agency, expression, and citizenship.
Institutionalised will take place inside Black Maria, a temporary event space housed inside the new campus for Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Black Maria is a commissioned installation, designed and built by Richard Wentworth and Swiss architectural practice GRUPPE.
The event is free and open to the public; space is limited but you can register here.
Wouter Vanstiphout is a founding member of Crimson Architectural Historians, an extremely diverse Rotterdam-based practice engaged in city-making on many levels, from art exhibitions to policy advice; he is also Professor of Design As Politics at TU Delft. Recently Wouter has been writing a regular column discussing the intersections between current affairs and architecture for Building Design.
Jeremy Till is an architect, educator and writer, currently Head of Central Saint Martin's College of Arts and Design and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of the Arts London. His written work includes Flexible Housing (with Tatjana Schneider, 2007), Architecture Depends (2009) and Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture (with Nishat Awan and Tatjana Schneider, 2011), all three of which won the RIBA President's Award for Outstanding Research.
Institutionalised
Black Maria at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
1 Granary Square, King's Cross, London
19:00 — 22:00
Free entrance