INDEPENDENT SCHOOL FOR THE CITY

SCHOOL'S OUT!Friday night is School's Out! Every last Friday of the month the Independent School for the City celebrates the start of the weekend with public talks, films, drinks, food, and tunes. The new favourite hangout for everyone who is interested in the city.We have an amazing line-up this semester of three designers who challenge the accepted ideas of what a designer does, for who, with who, with what and where.School's Out #7
With Liza Fior
27 September 2019

We are very happy to announce that the British architect and designer Liza Fior will be the speaker on the 7th edition of School’s Out! on the last Friday of September.

Liza is founding partner of MUF Architecture/Art, a legendary London-based practice that combines dreamlike compositions of shapes and materials with gripping narratives. Established in the mid 90s as a new type of practice that would blur the ‘fuzzy edges’ between buildings and city, architecture, art, and the structures of society, MUF has worked on various public spaces, buildings and exhibitions that have the depth and complexity of places with a history of centuries. One such project was a development strategy for the Hofbogen in Rotterdam. Liza will be talking about the way that unsolicited research into the spatial, social and economic infrastructures of the built environment re-shape the architectural brief. She is a charismatic and challenging speaker. It would be unwise to forego the chance to witness her presentation!

Programme18.00 - 19:00 Drinks, food, and tunes
19.00 - 20:00 Talk "unsolicited research" by Liza Fior + Q&A
20.00 - 20:30 Film selected by Jord den Hollander
20:30 - 22.00 Drinks, food, and tunesLiza Fior is a lecturer at the MA Architecture: Cities and Innovation at UAL’s Central St Martins and was previously a Visiting Professor at Yale School of Architecture. As part of muf, she was awarded the 2008 European Prize for Public Space for the new town square for Barking. She is the co-author of This is What We Do: A muf manual (Batsford Ltd, 2001) and Design Advocate for the London Mayor.Drinks and food for sale at the bar (pin only) // Entrance: 5 Euro - Get your tickets here

Next up in October, is Alfredo Brillembourg, the Venezuelan/American architect, teacher and media phenomenon. Alfredo is the founder of the Urban Think Tank, an office or rather a political project, with an enormous impact on our current Idea of what architecture, architects and even cities actually are. Beginning with their ‘Vertical Gym’ in the barrios of Caracas, to their projects in cities of the ‘Global South’ they have stormed the Ivory Tower of architecture and panning and have emancipated the informal neighbourhoods from places to pity to rich resources of architectural and social ingenuity. Recently he brought his approach to the City of Athens, creating a tool box of over 100 projects together with the inhabitants and users of the city in order to bring dilapidated neighborhoods back to life. Get your tickets for School's Out! #8 with Alfredo Brillembourg here

And we close of the year on 29 November with Petra Blaisse, possibly Holland's most poetic and uncompromising spatial designer. Petra and her office Inside/Outside has for decades now provided the cheerful but ultimately dispiriting banality of Dutch Design with an antidote of craft, seriousness, utility and sheer, unadulterated beauty. Her interventions are seemingly humble, insinuating themselves in the fringes and nooks and crannies of buildings and urban projects with gardens, textiles, objects and materials. The designs however undercut, insubordinate, infect and enrich the rough and often schematic ‘projects’, and turn them into real places. Seeing Inside/Outside’s projects being presented by Petra herself is a unique chance. Don’t miss it! Get your tickets for School's Out! #9 with Petra Blaisse here

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