UTOPIAA 2020 - ExQuiZic Facts
A FESTIVAL FOR RECREATIONAL ARCHITECTURE
SAN FRANCISCO / LONDON • 25 & 26 JULY 2020
As COVID-19 prevention measures kicked in worldwide, creative processes and cultural practices typically conducted in the public sphere — schools, museums, offices — moved into our domestic spaces. From students and educators transitioning their kitchen tables into classrooms to working parents sharing their children’s playspace as their office, art and architectural institutions have had to adjust to unique challenges in adapting homes for full-time work. At this critical moment when the personal and professional have become blurred, how can designers reimagine our spaces for both work and play?
Taking up virtual residence at Gray Area throughout 2020, the Architectural Association’s new AA Visiting School San Francisco presents UTOPIAA — a global festival for radical architectural visions to rework our world. This conference features an eclectic mix of online events held across San Francisco and London including live meditation, collaborative workshops, archive digs and panel discussions with leading designers and thinkers from AA, CCA, Gray Area, and SFAI’s global community. The stream of festival programming runs all day in the US and all night in Europe on July 25 & 26, 2020.
UTOPIAA
EXQuIZICfacts, LAWuN Project 32 a channel of the InvisibleUniversity in collaboration with UTOPIAA.
LAWUN is a department within the Architects Association, London and is run by Eddie Farrell and David Green.
Documentation of the night, presented by Eddie Farrell and David Green.
With Special Thanks to: Pati de Souza, Michael Wedgwood,
Quentin Martin, Lingxiu Chong, Lucy Moroney, Nara Ha, AAVS SF, Gray Area.
