AAction Lunchtime Lecture, Wednesday 6 May, 1pm BST, Zoom
This second instalment of the From Now On series will see Duncan Baker Brown, the architect and academic behind Europe's first public building made of discarded and recycled material, discuss how the circular economy applies to the built environment and how architectural education can implement its principles and push for new and alternative means of production. Find out more

AA PhD Seminar, Wednesday 6 May, 4pm BST, Zoom
In the face of escalating crises across the world, citizens are taking matters into their own hands, self-organising by pooling resources and claiming their collective right to the city. What creative insights can architects learn from these efforts to create new commons? This talk will reflect on the long-term exhibition and publication project An Atlas of Commoning and discuss the commons as a contested field. Find out more

Fridays, 6pm BST, AA Visiting School Instagram
The El Alto Visiting School has organised a series of live Instagram talks with Andrew Kovacs, Delphine Blast, Manuel Seoane, Patricio Crooker and more will question how architecture can be seen as a means by which to reclaim a cultural identity, and how in an informal Bolivian context it might be possible to construct a new approach to architecture. Find out more

Global Forums Exhibition, 8-20 May
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, last week the AA launched an open call for drawings that depict our world today. The selected drawings will be exhibited in an online gallery and will form part of a future AA publication. View the exhibition

From designing for the climate to re-interpreting nature itself Philippe Rahm, David Gissen, and DK Osseo-Asare and Yasmine Abbas reflect on the meaning of climate in a trio of articles from AA Files. Their writings seek to radically rethink the intersections of architecture and climate, including the architectural and cultural significance of waste Read now

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