NEW STANDARDS
Event Series: Architectural Association
The New Standards event series was designed to identify and confront some of the barriers to architecture, its education and practice, and consider how these can be overcome to embrace wider forms of creativity. Each event in the series addressed the idea of comfort to challenge the idea of ‘standards’ as a bare minimum or one-size-fits-all approach. Together questioning how we might better provide comfort in all its nuanced forms.
As part of the second event in the series titled Movement, we collectively explored movement through our different experiences of how we pass through spaces, how long we get to spend in them, and how we define and can defy expectations of movement in places of domesticity, education and practice. Pip Jackson shared her work on inclusive design and co-design across UCL, the City of London, the GLA, Camden Council. Christopher Scarffe presented his work examining how spatial design and the built environment play a role in empowering or disabling differently-abled minds and bodies. I shared my research on the work and pedagogies of Andrew Walker - founder of the Environmental Access course at the Architectural Association in the 1990s.
