[ images: Eva Eylers presenting, photo by Valerie Bennett; Morning panel dicussion moderated by Marina Lathouri, clockwise, Yara Sharif, Kathleen O'Donnell, Eva Eylers, Marina Lathouri, Hyun-Tae Jung and Emma Cheattle, photo by Kirk Wooller; Roemer va toorn Q&A after the lecture ]
' [...] The event counted with presentations by ten PhD candidates from six invited institutions around the world, namely the AA, The Bartlett School of Built Environment, Columbia GSAPP, ETSA Seville, The London Consortium, and University of Westminster. Marina Lathouri (Co-Director of the AA Histories and Theories Graduate Programme) and Murray Fraser (Professor of Architecture and Coordinator for Postgraduate Studies and Research at the University of Westminster) moderated the two panel discussions. The day was concluded with a keynote address by Roemer van Toorn, Professor and Director of the Projective Theory Programme at the Berlage Institute. Roemer’s talk, entitled ‘Learning from Free Indirect Discourse: Aesthetics as a Form of Politics’, argued that ‘free indirect discourse’ – a cinematic conceptual method initially theorised by Pasolini - has spatial and aesthetic implications that could be of decisive importance to make architecture politically again. [...]'
[ extract from the review by Kirk Wooller and myself to be published in the AA Projects Review 08/09, forthcoming ]
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