Talk
unbauhaus
Organised by University of The Arts London (UAL)
Join us to explore creative responses and challenges to the framing of the EU New European Bauhaus initiative launched in 2020.
About this event
University of the Arts London (UAL) is curating a half-day public event on July 7 called unbauhaus.
We invite you to join us as we share a collective response to the European Commission’s New European Bauhaus (NEB). The initiative is a call to shape the future of Europe as a creative and interdisciplinary movement in the making. Aiming to connect the European Green Deal to our living spaces, NEB calls for us “to imagine and build together a sustainable and inclusive future that is beautiful for our eyes minds, and souls.” Unbauhaus responds to the call by offering a range of critical and creative perspectives on NEB’s values – ‘beautiful, sustainable, inclusive’.
Committing to social and climate justice requires dismantling and reimagining the ‘new’. As a contemporary creative university, UAL encompasses many art and design practices, research and partnerships that allow us to approach and engage in societal challenges in unexpected ways. Confronting injustice and unsustainability in our societies and ways of living today, we explore alternatives, make the invisible visible and the inaudible heard, and enable different ways of seeing, listening, thinking and making.
Our online event on 7 July (1pm – 4pm, BST; 2 – 5pm CET), accompanied by a digital summary, will challenge the NEB’s framing and suggest possible alternative futures.
Format and speakers
The three-hour event will be structured as a series of short talks followed by a roundtable discussion with external guest speakers. Short talks will be given by a many creative practitioners and academics from across UAL, spanning a wide range of fields and perspectives, intersectional positions and identities. Collectively, we will explore these three questions:
Beyond Beauty: How can we imagine and create objects, practices, structures and places that acknowledge and address exclusions, absences and silences?
More than Sustainability: What equitable, circular, anticipatory relations between non- and human beings (past, present and future) and Earth ecologies can be imagined and realised?
Matters of Inclusion: What formats and forms of sensory and creative engagements can be imagined and realised to bring about inclusive and diverse participation, deliberation and agencies?
Speakers include
International scholar, digital artist and course leader for BA (Hons) Virtual Reality, Dr Annie Wan, London College of Communication
Founder and Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, Professor Dilys Williams FRSA
PhD candidate designing feminist pensions policy, Daniella Jenkins, Central Saint Martins
Professor Pratap Rughani, award-winning documentary filmmaker and Associate Dean of Research, London College of Communication
Designer and architect, Executive Director of Dark Matter Laboratories, Indy Johar
Event details
Date: 7 July 2021
Time: 1 – 4 pm BST; 2 – 5pm CET Streaming live on Youtube
Open to all, free.
Register your place to attend.
There will be live closed captions and the event will be recorded.
Don’t forget to join us in sharing and discussing this event using #unbauhaus
Agenda
13:00: Welcome from President and Vice Chancellor of UAL, James Purnell
– Beyond Beauty
– More than Sustainability
– Matters of Inclusion
15:20: Round table moderated by Professor Shahidha Bari, Professor of Fashion Cultures and Histories, London College of Fashion, UAL
16:00: Closing