Counter-Figures

JA Projects founding director Jayden Ali, has curated a series of broadcasts, Counter-Figures. The three broadcasts explore the new heroes of our time, tell new stories, advocate for new agendas, frame new questions and articulate new aesthetics. Each one will be hosted by a cultural space which traditionally has the power to sanctify people and their practice.

Profits, Gods and Icons (with Architecture Foundation)
Tuesday 1 December 6.30pm GMT

Jayden Ali and Shumi Bose introduce the series via a film-screening-come-lecture, structured around Ali’s recent cinematic triptych that questions society’s relationship to cultural icons and their influence on the built environment.

Watch Profits, Gods and Icons here.

 Sound Advice Awards
Thursday 3 December 6.00pm GMT

Sound Advice provide a visual and sonic carnival of an awards ceremony, showcasing the work of undervalued and alternative spatial practitioners that point a way towards the delivery of a more equitable city.

Watch the Sound Advice Awards here.

The Future is A Common History (with the Royal Academy)
Thursday 10 December 18.30 GMT

JA Projects in collaboration with Black Females in Architecture and Dr Adesola Akinleye, perform an alternative history that champions the making of a diverse public realm via an investigation of the Royal Academy of Arts and its setting. The performance will be followed by a conversation between the authors and Kate Goodwin (RA Head of Architecture and Drue Heinz Curator), taking a closer look at the history and context of these conversations, both specific to the RA and in general.

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