Amica Dall / Assemble Studio

Friday 23 March / 10:30 – 11:30

 

Short Biography

Amica is a founding director of Assemble, a non-heirarchical collective whose work focuses on the social and material processes through which cities are made, producing architecture, art, urban design and research.

 

Assemble were awarded the 2015 Turner Prize for their long-term collaboration with a Community Land Trust in Liverpool. Video work from her on-going research project on contemporary urban childhood, The Voice of Children, was presented in the curator’s selection at 15th Biennale di Architecttura di Venezia in 2016.

 

Current projects include a collaboration with ground-breaking youth theatre company, Company 3, on teenagers and the right to the city, early stage development of plan to incrementally refurbish a community hall with the residents association of housing estate in Bethnal Green, and is researching a two part documentary for BBC Radio 4 she will write and present with Assemble co-founder Giles Smith, airing in May 2018.

 

Aside from her work in Assemble, Amica is a trustee of Theatrum Mundi, an independent international research network founded in LSE by Richard Sennett in 2010. She was a juror for the 2016 Royal Institute of British Architects President’s Medal for Resesarch and has been teaching history and theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London since 2014.

 

 

Abstract

Amica will consider the usefulness of the growing body of work around the theory commons in thinking about how we interact with complex urban situations. Amica will propose the Adventure Playground as a model for an urban commons, and use it to explore how unstable, precarious, complicated and ultimately limited attempts to create new commons can be.

 

 

Statements

The artist’s freedom has always been ›individual‹, but true freedom can only be collective. A freedom aware of social responsibilities, which can knock down the frontiers of aesthetics« / Lina Bo Bardi