ZHF partners with the Architecture Foundation for POST PRESS, an eight-week public programme
On June 16th the Architecture Foundation published New Architects 5, the latest edition in its landmark series of guides to the UK’s best emerging practices. Throughout the summer, we are collaborating with them to present POST PRESS, a temporary event space programmed by the 93 practices featured in the book.
Housed at the Zaha Hadid Foundation’s premises at 10 Bowling Green Lane in Clerkenwell, POST PRESS plays host to more than 30 events focused on subjects ranging from football to conservation, club culture to clay. The space is also open as a library bookshop where visitors can browse New Architects 5 alongside a selection of titles donated by the featured practices.
Read on to discover what’s coming up and register to attend:
Thursday 16th July – Three Sisters on Greenway Close
Medium, in collaboration with Mia Hull and Sylvie Field, presents Three Sisters on Greenway Close, a film screening that blurs the lines between theatrical performance and cinema. Played out across an immersive scenography built for the event, the project explores our relationship to public and private space, the domestic sphere’s possibilities for artistic creation, and a rejection of the property market’s commodification of the home.
Friday July 17th – Magma 95: Architecture launch
Join us for the launch of Magma 95: Architecture, a special issue of the celebrated poetry magazine exploring the resonant intersections of poetry and the built environment. Hosted by co-editors Leo Boix and Stav Poleg, this intimate evening brings together poets and architects for readings and conversation about space, memory, language and dwelling. The issue features a specially commissioned cover by artist Pablo Bronstein and a crown of sonnets developed by researchers from the University of Cambridge and The New School, exploring ideas of home, rooms within rooms, and diasporic experience.
Wednesday July 22nd – Between Rock and a Hard Place
Between Rock and a Hard Place is an event presented by Other People’s Dreams that explores how the people, places and communities that shape regional spatial practice are documented, represented and shared through alternative forms of publishing and cultural production. Bringing together zine-making, photography, writing, conversation and exhibition, the event examines the role that independent media and grassroots cultural activity play in shaping contemporary architectural and spatial discourse beyond the UK’s major urban centres. Part zine fair, part exhibition, part reading and part public conversation, the event brings together contributors whose work is rooted in the North West and committed to amplifying overlooked stories, voices and places. Featuring contributions from Stat Magazine, Ash Hardman, SHOP Preston, and Other People’s Dreams, the event will showcase a diverse range of printed matter, photographic work, texts and research that engage directly with the realities of regional life and practice. The event seeks to challenge dominant narratives that position cultural innovation as something concentrated elsewhere and asks what conditions are needed for a progressive and contemporary culture of spatial production to emerge outside the gravitational pull of larger cities. Instead, it highlights regional towns and communities as vital sites of inquiry, experimentation and impact for emerging practitioners.
Join the Scottish architects for a good old Friday night ceilidh! Tonight we are bringing a bit of Scotland to London – or perhaps taking London on a brief and mostly unsanctioned trip to Scotland. Whatever it is, we guarantee a good time! The evening will be introduced by fellow Scot Roz Barr before descending into reels, readings and revelry. Absolutely zero ceilidh experience is required – enthusiasm is far more useful than competence, and an experienced caller will be on hand to guide us through the dances. Whether you’re a seasoned Gay Gordon or someone who assumes a Dashing White Sergeant is the sort of person who comments extensively on planning applications, you’ll fit right in. And if dancing isn’t your thing, come anyway – there’ll be a cold, crisp Tennents waiting for your arrival and a massive beer garden to soak in the atmosphere.
Saturday July 25th – Majlis Conversations
In arabic, the majlis is a semi-public space found within homes and neighbourhoods: a room, courtyard or threshold where conversation unfolds, hospitality is offered, and ideas are exchanged. We will shape the space as a majlis, inviting artists, designers and writers to present an object, room, building or landscape that speaks to ideas of home, belonging and cross-cultural hybridity. Through a series of informal conversations, each contribution becomes a point of departure for reflecting on the interconnectedness of our ways of living. Hosted by Msoma, with Lubna Chowdhary, Krish Nathaniel, Farhad Malik (Wadhal) and Adam Nathaniel-Furman. Tea will be served. All are welcome.
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