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Imaging the Earth Today, Earth Drawings panel discussion, Wednesday 20 May, 6pm BST, Zoom
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Following the launch of the Earth Drawings Virtual Gallery, which saw an array of submissions from all parts of the AA global community, a panel discussion will be held on Wednesday 20 May to discuss drawing as a medium today. Invited panellists include: architect, artist and AA Tutor Pol Esteve; designers of the virtual Earth Gallery, AA Tutors and founders of Space Popular Fredrik Hellberg and Lara Lesmes; AA Council member and architect Sam Jacob; architect and AA Tutor David Kohn; artist and founding member of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture Madelon Koolhaas-Vriesendorp; and AA Alumna Marie-Louise Raue and architect Paul Francis Feeney; all of whom have a drawing included in the exhibition. To find out more, visit What’s On
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Final Juries
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Monday 11–Friday 22 May Final juries will continue to take place online this week. This is an opportunity for students from Foundation, First Year, Experimental and Diploma Programmes to receive feedback on their projects. The full schedule is available on the AA website, and the events are open to members of the School Community. Find out more
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Q&A with Belinda and Eva
2020–25 Strategic Plan
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Monday 18 May, 12pm BST, Student Forum Team Every Monday, Belinda Flaherty, Registrar, and Eva Franch, AA Director, will be available to receive questions from all members of the School Community. Please join this session to discuss the 2020-25 Strategic Plan. Join the Session
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Open Tutorials
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Monday 18 May, 1–5pm BST Open Tutorials offer all students the opportunity to get fresh perspectives and extra advice on their design work during 30-minute feedback sessions. In the last of the sessions, Miraj Ahmed, Eleanor Dodman, Shin Egashira, Juliet Haysom, Anderson Inge, Marina Lathouri, Melodie Leung, Inigo Minns and Theo Spyropoulos will be available. Find out more
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Claire Potter
All About Presentation: Scripts, Tables and Words
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Writing Workshop, Wednesday 20 May, 10am–12pm BST, AA Writing Centre Team In this workshop hosted by Claire Potter of the AA Writing Centre, participants will develop a clear and comprehensive understanding of what goes into planning, making and delivering a presentation that captures a particular design project. Find out more
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Strategic Plan Meeting
Platforms
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Wednesday 20 May, 10am BST, AA Lecture Hall Team In the final Strategic Plan Meeting, AA Director Eva Franch and members of the Senior Management Team will introduce and discuss AA Platforms. Previous sessions on People and Pedagogy are available to watch online. Find out more
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Carolyn Steel
On Food Security
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AAction Lunchtime Lectures, Wednesday 20 May, 1pm BST, Zoom Carolyn Steel, author of Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives, will interrogate past and current modes of food production, explore their intrinsic relationship to the evolution of the climate and challenge architecture's connection to the cultivation and distribution of food worldwide. Find out more
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Ana Ribeiro
Stop Procrastinating & Get Things Done!
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Mental Health Workshop, Wednesday 20 May, 2pm BST, Zoom Chartered Clinical Psychologist Ana Ribeiro of the AA Student Care Centre will be running weekly workshops on mental health and wellbeing. This fourth session will address how to deal with time management and procrastination. Email to take part
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From the Collections:
The Bridge of Styx
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This week, Head of Archives Ed Bottoms has written about a gravity-defying, skeletal bridge of welded metal that was suspended high above Ching’s Yard by a group of students in 1988. The AA Archives contain a wide range of student projects that are available to view online. Read more about the Bridge of Styx
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Mark Morris re-screens Paul Hirst The Politics of Space
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RE-Screen, Friday 22 May, 6pm BST, Zoom The second event in the RE-Screen series will see Head of Teaching and Learning Mark Morris present Paul Hirst’s 1993 lecture from the AA Archive titled ‘The Politics of Space’. Watch the original lecture before watching Mark’s re-framing of it by finding out more
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The week at a glance
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Monday 18–Friday 22 May
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The AA Digital Worlds have been created to enable the School Community to continue its academic ambitions, social gatherings and spontaneous experiments. This map can be used to navigate these online spaces, more of which will be added in due course. View the map
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Geoffrey Salmon (1925-2020)
The AA is deeply saddened to learn of the death of AA alumnus and former Council member Geoffrey Salmon. Geoffrey graduated in 1952 and designed highly influential commercial offices and sheltered housing for the elderly. He kindly donated his student work to the AA Archive in 2010, recording an oral history of his practice with two students. Read more
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Congratulations to all students that were awarded a High Pass for their work in Environmental and Technical Studies. This project by Ignatio Bhaskhara Putra (Diploma 21), titled ‘Sana Terrae – Magenta Shadow Caster’ was awarded the ETS5 High Pass with Distinction.
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