Fiction is a powerful yet largely overlooked form of architectural criticism. Infectious, freeing and universal in its nature, fiction is critical but not limiting, informative but not didactic, it helps us to imagine together.
To celebrate our work over the past year at New Architecture Writers (N.A.W.), the sixth cohort will collectively present a manuscript of fictional pieces exploring a diverse range of topics. These pieces will be presented in different formats from satire and poetry to fictional histories. What unites the work is a desire to write about, and experiment with, imagined spatial alternatives.
The evening will feature a showcase of the cohort’s manuscript bookended by two dicussions. We invite you to read and converse, engaging with the cohort and each other over curated music and food. A detailed programme will be shared with you closer to the event date.
We present to you: Spatial Fictions.
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Fiction is freeing.
Fiction is a reprieve.
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The sixth cohort of New Architecture Writers:
Laxmi Andrews, Walid Bhatt, Leithan ‘Xajji’ Brimah, Julia Cabanas, Yanqi Huang, Chloe Shang, Alfred Yatlong Yeung, Salimat Yéwándé and Daniel Owusu.
19.00 – 22.00, Thursday 12 December 2024
Staffordshire St, 49 Staffordshire St, London, SE15 5TJ
The ticket price is £12, which includes dinner and a copy of the cohort’s manuscript. We invite you to bring a plus one (they will need to purchase their own ticket and register separately) as we would love to meet the friends of our friends.
Tickets are available here
If you wish to donate more to support N.A.W., please use the ‘donation’ section after selecting the general ticket. Your extra contribution will go towards the next generation of N.A.W. Meanwhile, if you cannot pay the ticket price but still wish to come, please email cohort member Yanqi Huang at yanqi.huang.a@gmail.com to reserve a subsidised slot.
