Join us for a series of Discursive Talks as part of Ilona Sagar’s Fellowship exhibition Other Actors. Each session will be held in the exhibition space. In the first hour you are invited to watch the Other Actors film (59’40” minutes) followed by a discursive talk with invited guest speakers.
Wed 11 June 2-3pm Film Screening / 3-4pm Discursive Talk
Designing for Health: Bodies, Buildings, and the Leaky Legacies of Modernism with Penny Sparke, Aoife Donnelly and Douglas Murphy.
Wed 2 July 6-7pm Film Screening / 7-8pm Discursive Talk
Horizontal Knowledges with Julliet Jacques and Owen Hatherley.
Wed 16 July 6-7pm Film Screening / 7-8pm Discursive Talk
Borders, Bodies, Viral Landscapes with Pranabashis Haldar and Marsha Rosengarten.
Biography
Aoife Donnelly is an Irish, London-based registered Architect, who combines education, practice and research. Aoife leads the M.Arch Architecture program at Kingston School of Art. Research takes the form of built projects, temporary installations, exhibitions and writing, exploring topics such as participatory practice, democracy and agency over the built environment, radical pedagogies, enmeshing questions of landscape and environment, time and tangible heritage, with cultures of building and making.
Douglas Murphy is a writer and architect. He is the author of The Architecture of Failure (Zero), Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture (Verso). He writes for a wide range of publications on architecture, fine art and photography, and lectures widely. Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Kingston University, where he teaches within the Department of Architecture and Landscape.
Penny Sparke is Professor of Design History at Kingston University and the Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre. Her research areas cover modern design, interiors, gender, identity, and nature, and her most important publications include An Introduction to Design and Culture, 1900 to the present (1986, 2004, 2013); Design in Context (1987); Electrical Appliances (1988); Italian Design from 1860 to the present (1989); The Plastics Age (1990); As Long as It’s Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste (1995); Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration (2005); The Modern Interior (2008); and Nature Inside: Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior (2021).
