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Architecture for the Future

with architects Mollie Claypool and Jack Self 

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As we look to the future, how might architecture and design help to bring about a brighter one? Indeed, how can architecture engage with feminism, anti-capitalism, and sustainability? What tools are available within the field to support society-wide change? These are the questions that two leaders in imaginative architecture and design, Mollie Claypool and Jack Self, will seek to ask and answer. 

A specialist in architecture and automation, Mollie Claypool argues for a rethinking of architectural production. Considering the individual parts that make up a building, she asks how we might employ automation to create more equitable frameworks for design production. Architect Jack Self, for his part, works in domestic design and housing, the history of communitarian life, alternative modes of finance and ownership, and new environmental standards. In their work, both Claypool and Self are critical of the state of the world. But, as Self writes, “Criticism does not mean negativity. I believe powerfully in the proposition, the project, and the positive act. The present and past are tools for constructing the future.” Together, the two will discuss the positive role of criticism in architecture, while also considering the role of the practical and the imaginative in creating alternative futures.

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About the speakers:

Mollie Claypool is an architecture theorist focused on issues of social justice highlighted by increasing automation in architecture and design production. She is Co-Founder and CEO of technology company Automated Architecture (AUAR) Ltd and Co-Director of AUAR Labs at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where she is an Associate Professor in Architecture. She isco-author of Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation (Detail Edition 2019) and author of the SPACE10 report “The Digital in Architecture: Then, Now and in the Future” (2019).

Jack Self is a London-based architect, curator, and writer. He is the Director of REAL, a cultural institute and architectural practice, Editor-in-Chief of Real Review and co-founder of REAL homes. Self curated the British Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale with the show Home Economics. He is the author of Real Estates: Life Without Debt (2014), and Home Economics: New Models of Domestic Life (2016), among other works.

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