Last year, the Royal College of Art participated in BASE’s “Convivial Laboratory” exploring the agency of conviviality as an active construct related to the interdependencies between humans, other-than-humans, media, and material objects.
This year, through four conversations with prominent artists, designers, curators and historians from the Milanese architectural scene, we will expand on the construction of specific convivial dynamics and tangible kinships inside some of RCA’s multiple departments.
The conversations will take place alongside a curated selection of students’ work – highlighting the intersections between design, research and material practices within the nuanced ecosystems of the College.
4 Conversations:
→ Christina Geros (RCA Environmental Architecture) + Dubravka Sekulic & Dima Srouji (RCA City Design) with Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli (2050+)
→ Mark Campbell (RCA Architecture) + Graeme Brooker (RCA Interior Design) with Rebecca Carrai and Mitre and Mondays
→ David Burns (RCA Media Studies) + Sandra Denicke & Thandi Loewenson (RCA Design Practice) with Claudia Mainardi (Fosbury Architecture)
→ Adrian Lahoud (RCA Dean School of Architecture) / Nina Bassoli and Andrea Bagnato
Moderator: Lemonot (Sabrina Morreale & Lorenzo Perri)
Starting from 18:30, the whole happening will culminate with an aperitivo at bistroBASE – whose premises have been recently re-designed by Lemonot through a series of performative, exceptionally ordinary, interventions, that were developed in collaboration with MA Architecture students.