Panel Discussion
Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation 2023
Join our annual collaboration with the London Festival of Architecture showcasing progressive manifestos envisioning a more inclusive London, developed by emerging voices in architecture and the built environment.
Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation returns for a 5th year, presenting thought-provoking manifestos from four emerging voices who are expanding the parameters of what architecture can be, who London is for and what its future holds.
This year, a panel of respected voices in architecture and design have nominated a brilliant line-up of creatives, who they regard as being engaged with and committed to the act of progressive, inclusive placemaking in London.
The nominees will present and discuss their manifestos as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
This year's nominators are Jos Boys, Dr. Ruth Lang, Shahed Saleem and Dr. Neal Shasore.
Nominees to be announced in April.
Nominators
Boys is co-founder and co-director, with Zoe Partington, of The DisOrdinary Architecture Project which brings disabled artists into built environment education and practice to critically and creatively re-think access and inclusion. Originally trained in architecture, she was co-founder of Matrix feminist architecture and research collective in London UK in the 1980s. Boys has also been a journalist, critic, researcher, consultant, educator and photographer; and has published many books and articles.
Lang is an architect, researcher, writer, and senior lecturer at the Royal College of Art and the London School of Architecture. Her work focuses on the networks and mechanisms we engage with in delivering architectural projects, exploring how we might practice differently in order to achieve a more socially and environmentally equitable profession. She is currently leading the Low Carbon Housing research in the Design Museum’s Future Observatory.
Saleem is an architect, author and Reader in Architecture at the University of Westminster. His research and practice explore the architecture of diaspora communities, in particular their relationship to heritage, belonging and nationhood. Saleem’s design and research has been recognised widely. Saleem’s book, ‘The British Mosque, an architectural and social history’, was published by Historic England in 2018 and he co-curated the Victoria and Albert Museum's Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021.
Shasore is Head of School and Chief Executive of the London School of Architecture. He is particularly passionate about diversifying architectural education, heritage and practice. An architectural historian by training, his research and writing has primarily focussed on architectural culture in Britain and the Empire in the first half of the twentieth century. This critical perspective informs his own pedagogy and practice. He is a member of the Design Museum Learning & Research Committee.
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