Group Chat – Constructing Conversational Architectures

With Freddy Tuppen

What is the architecture of modern communication? How does the next generation define a new language of public space in the current era of mobile communications?

Taking inspiration from the history of Russian and Soviet broadcasting architecture and technology, for this workshop the students will be asked to investigate how we might reverse the negative stereotype of mobile messaging and transform it into a public and performative gesture. How can architecture and public space play a role in our digital lives and communications?

Participants will be pushed to refine their core architectural skills from model-making, drawing, site analysis, consideration of public and urban space to proto-typing and one-to-one construction, building a temporary structure on a prominent riverside site in central Moscow.

By using modular construction techniques, tubular assembly and lighting design students will realise and program an ambitious temporary public space under under the guidance of members of STORE, a London-based collective of artists and architects.

The workshop is aimed at ambitious students interested in Art, Design, Architecture and Urbanism, especially those wishing to study or currently studying these subjects at university. During the workshop, participants will be able to get a general idea about public space programming, professional teachers consulting, also they will come up with ideas and projects that can be added to the portfolio.