Sites and Insights – Intereferantial Drawing is an intimate and co-creative student centred lunchtime activity hosted by architect Sumayya Vally, facilitated by BSA design tutor Jhono Bennett. The exercise will see students working with Sumayya to co-produce a drawn artefact through facilitated series of co-production. Through drawn discussion based on inter-related insights and sited experiences, the group will work through questions on referentiality in architectural research and practice.
Lunch will be provided free of charge for those signed up via Eventbrite.
Sumayya Vally is a South African architect, and founder and principal of the architecture and research firm, Counterspace, with whom she designed the 20th Serpentine Pavilion (2020/2021). In 2021 she was the only architect on The Time100 Next List. The list, which gathers emerging leaders, pioneers and creators ‘poised to make history’, identified her as ‘shaping the future of the architectural canon and practice’. She is the Artistic Director of the first Islamic Arts Biennale in the Middle East, which has extended opening throughout the summer 2023. She has recently won the competition for the design of the new Asiat-Darse pedestrian bridge in Vilvoord, Belgium. Her response to the brief drew on complex histories of colonial and migrant pasts through the story and legacy of the Congolose intellectual, Paul Panda Farnana, a significant but largely forgotten former resident of the city.
FINAL DRAWINGS
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