Tomorrow’s Talks

5:00 pm
“Techno-Natural Environments in the Era of Climate Change”
with Stefania Strouza & The New Raw, Zinovia Toloudi and Michael Young

7:00 pm
“Garments for a Surveilled Future”
with Behnaz Farahi and Adam Harvey

8:30 pm
“Images from the City of Tomorrow”
with Penelope Haralambidou and Liam Young

Behnaz Farahi

Behnaz Farahi is an architect and interaction designer whose work explores the potential of interactive environments (from fashion to architecture) and their relationship to the human body through the implementation of emerging technologies in contemporary art/architecture practice. Her goal is to enhance the relationship between human beings and the built environment by implementing design/motion principles inspired by natural systems. Holding a Bachelor’s and two Masters degrees in Architecture, currently she is an Annenberg Fellow and PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice at the USC School of Cinematic.
http://www.behnazfarahi.com/caress-of-the-gaze/

Penelope Haralambidou

Dr Penelope Haralambidou(GR/UK), Senior Lecturer at Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, is acting director of the MPhil/PhD Architectural Design programme and MArch Unit 24 coordinator. Her work lies between practice and theory, she has used filmmaking and architectural design as a research method, and her projects have been exhibited internationally. Her monograph “Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire” was published by Routledge (2013), and she has contributed writing on themes such allegory, figural theory, stereoscopy and film in architecture to a wide range of publications. Her recent research focuses on what she has defined as the ‘architectural essay film.’ She has organised the symposiums Architecture | Essay | Film, 2016, at UCL, and Film | Making | Space, February 2017, at the Royal Academy, and is the author of “The Architectural Essay Film” (“ARQ”, volume 19 issue 03, 2015), and “With-Drawing Room on Vellum” (“Drawing Futures”, UCL Press, 2016). http://www.unittwentyfour.com/

Adam Harvey

Adam Harvey is an artist and independent researcher based in Berlin. His work includes developing camouflage from face detection (“CV Dazzle”, 2010), anti-drone garments (“Stealth Wear”, 2013), a faraday cage phone case (“OFF Pocket”, 2013), and a Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing device (“SkyLift”, 2016). Harvey's multidisciplinary approach to exploiting surveillance technologies has been widely noted in a wide range of publications from “The New York Times” to the “Air Force Times”. He has been nominated as a Future Great by “Art Review” magazine in 2014, received a Core77 design award in 2011 for his work on “CV Dazzle”, and was recently awarded a web-residency by Schloss Solitude and ZKM for continued development of “SkyLift”. Harvey's current work continues to explore low-cost methods for averting high-tech surveillance. https://ahprojects.com

The New Raw (TNR)

The New Raw (TNR) is a creative practice that explores the merging fields of digital fabrication and ma­terial resourcing. TNR’s projects focus on creating closed loops by introducing digital fabrication technologies in the recycling process of discarded materials. In this manner, the studio explores what design can do for waste-over­production and material misuse. The New Raw was founded in Rotterdam in 2015 by Foteini Se­taki and Panos Sakkas. www.thenewraw.org

Stefania Strouza

Stefania Strouza is an artist and architect living and working in Vienna and Athens. Her artistic practice is based on the idea of the Eastern Mediterranean region as the merging point of diverse cultural currents, between the East and the West, the archaic and the modern. In her current research, she focuses on the notion of the ‘shore’ as a physical and conceptual site, both in terms of its materiality as well as its geopolitical and symbolic implications. Part of this ongoing project was developed during her residency at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies of Princeton University. www.stefaniastrouza.com

Zenovia Toloudi

Zenovia Toloudi is an architect, artist, and Assistant Professor at Studio Art, Dartmouth College. In 2000, Zenovia founded Studio Z, a research and art-architecture practice. Her installations have been exhibited internationally, including Venice Biennale, The Lab at Harvard, Dartmouth, MIT, and Athens Byzantine Museum. Her public art projects have been placed in Fenway Boston, the lobby of MIT Stata and the central entrance of two buildings in New England of Optometry in Boston. Other works of her belong to permanent collections such as Aristotle University's Sculpture Collection, Threcian Pinacotheca and Leslie Center for the Humanities, at Dartmouth. Her essays have been published in Routledge, “Technoetic Arts”, “MAS Context” and “WAr journals”. Zenovia has received a Doctor of Design degree from Harvard GSD, a Master of Architecture from Illinois Institute of Technology (as a Fulbright Fellow), and a Diploma in Architectural Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. http://zenovia.net

Michael Young

Liam Young

Liam Young is a speculative architect and filmmaker who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the think tank “Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today”, a group whose work explores the possibilities of fantastic, speculative and imaginary urbanisms, and co-runs the “Unknown Fields Division”, a nomadic research studio that travels on location shoots and expeditions to the ends of the earth to document emerging trends and uncover the weak signals of possible futures. Liam is a producer of a BAFTA nominated short, has premiered films at the London Film Festival and has been collected by institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of Metropolitan Art in New York and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. http://www.tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com/