Transversal Alliances: Architecture, Anthropology, Filmmaking and Performance Symposium
Architectural Association
London
11 October 2024
“The Transversal Alliances symposium takes the process-oriented, transdisciplinary approach explored in Ripple Ripple Rippling as its starting point while going beyond the specific Chinese context.
In a world where debates are becoming increasingly divisive, transversal alliances are needed more than ever to defy flattened narrative and reductive abstraction. Through presentations, conversations, screenings and performative sections, this symposium shares boundary-pushing practices across architecture, anthropology, filmmaking and performance. Grounded in the complex, messy realities of life, this gathering charts ways of confronting the fractured, disjunctive conditions of all our existences, while affirming how one’s life is intricately connected to another.
With contributions from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (associate director Francesco Garutti), London’s Delfina Foundation (visual and performance artist Moe Satt and curator Erin Li), artist filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán, Prof. May Adadol Ingawanij (co-director of the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster), Dr Stephen Putnam Hughes (Film Officer & Festival Director at the Royal Anthropological Institute), editor and curator Shumi Bose (chief editor at KoozArch), the Ripple Ripple Rippling project team (Jingru Cyan Cheng, Chen Zhan, Mengfan Wang), and AA Director Ingrid Schroder” (Architectural Association).