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Material Reform: Building for a Post-Carbon Future

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Room 4 - ENSAPLV - Site Ardennes, 23 rue des Ardennes, 75019 Paris

Material Cultures: Material Reform, Ed. Mack Books, 2022, front cover – © DR

Videoconference in English organized by Brent Patterson as part of his teaching at ENSA Paris-la Villette and ENSA Paris-Malaquais, in particular CCA EXPLO710 – Meaning in practice and the practice of meaning.

Open discussion in English, with Amica Dall, starting from the observation that our current modus operandi does not allow us to envisage the future we want for ourselves and for those to come. So, as architects and citizens, we urgently need to rethink our relationship with the earth and other living beings, in order to produce new forms of material practice, culture and economy, in solidarity with those who surround us and our landscapes.

  

Biographical details
Amica Dall is a founding member ofAssemble, a multidisciplinary collective working in the fields of architecture, design, art and research. Assemble was awarded the 2015 Turner Prize for its long-term collaboration with a Community Land Trust in Liverpool. Amica Dall’s work as a writer and filmmaker has been broadcast on the BBC, exhibited at the Venice Biennale and published in E-Flux, etc. She co-authored a book on the post-carbon future of architecture in the UK with the architecture practice Material Cultures, published by Mack Books (2022), and collaborated on a volume edited by Assemble for Common Ground on contemporary rural design (2025). She is a founding trustee of Baltic Street Adventure Playground and also of Theatrum Mundi, an international arts research organization initiated by Richard Sennett. She currently directs a new seminar, “Childhood, Culture, Design”, at the Architectural Association, teaches history and theory, as well as the Masters in ‘situated practice’ at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

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