Co-director Thomas Aquilina and alumnus Abiba Coulibaly have been invited by the Nordic Review of Architecture in Bergen to present the project of New Architecture Writers as an experiment in radical architectural pedagogy. The presentation will focus on different forms of architectural writing and what it means to write through difference.
Thomas and Abiba will be joined in discussion by the principal of the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS), Emma Nilsson, and the audience. The evening and discussion will be moderated by Anders Rubing, a member of the working committee in the Art Section of the Critics’ Association, architecture critic, and editor-in-chief of the architecture magazine Nordic Review of Architecture.
More details about the event and how to join the live stream can be found here.
Time and Date: 18.00 GMT, Wednesday 27 November 2024
Location: Bergen Assembly (Halfdan Kjerulfs Gate 4)
The event is in collaboration with Bergen Assembly, Tekstallianse, and BAF.
With generous support from Fritt Ord and Arts Council Norway.
Thomas Aquilina is an architect and academic dedicated to building communities of radical imagination and collective practice. He is an Associate Professor of Spatial Justice at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Thomas is co-director of New Architecture Writers and a co-founder of publishing collective Afterparti.
Abiba Coulibaly is a film curator with a background in critical geography. Her projects Brixton Community Cinema and Atlas Cinema are experiments in democratising access to cinema. Abiba is an alumnus of fourth cohort of New Architecture Writers.
