COOP COAST is a design & research unit within the graduate diploma school of CSA*. Over the course of the academic year 2010/11 the studio is investigating the political, socioeconomic and spatial realities of coastal towns, both in Kent and across the English Channel. Oscillating between macro and micro scales, between urban and rural, temporal and typological conditions, the studio embraces strategic and activist design practices alike; and will explore the potential for cooperative action within the realms of regional design, programmatic urbanism and performative architecture.

Studio: Pauline Harris, Alasdair McNab, Joao Neves, Sarjay Patel, Benjamin Reay, Sara Resende, Migle Saltynite, Richard Saunders, Rhea Shepherd, Lawrence Sherwood, Hannah Wyatt & Gabor Stark

* Canterbury School of Architecture | University for the Creative Arts. www.cantarch.com

Friday 18 February 2011

OMA – CRONOCAOS @ ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS

Preservation / Destruction: OMA – CRONOCAOS

In their 2010 Venice Biennale installation, Rem Koolhaas’ OMA addressed the growing concern for preservation and its consequences for how and what we remember. “Through our respect for the past, heritage is becoming more and more the dominant metaphor for our lives today – a situation we call cronocaos. We are trying to find what the future of our memory will look like”. Ippolito Pestellini and Kayoko Otaof OMA discuss the provocations and implications of preservation, exploring how “our obsession with heritage is creating an artificial re-engineered version of our memory…”

Respondents include Simon Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage, and the artists,Jane and Louise Wilson.

6.30–8pm; followed by a drink

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