15.07. - 22.07.2022

Places are still available for this year’s AA Visiting School Stuttgart, a joint workshop between the AA School in London and the ABK Stuttgart. This event brings architects, artists and researchers together to speculate about our life in the future – putting the responsibility for our future back into our own court. Can architecture / architects safe the world? With this question even more pressing in 2022, we continue to investigate the role of the architect in initiating change towards a climate positive future.

For this year’s topic “About Tomorrow – Solar Pavilion”, we will team up with “KulturRegion Stuttgart”, an interdisciplinary region-wide festival that invites artists, thinkers and local communities to address the crisis of nature, work and technology through artistic means and discourse and extent to the “Solar Biennale” in Rotterdam which presents a new and holistic perspective on the energy of the sun.

We will focus on designing a public pavilion that initiates and supports dialog and exchange about present climate challenges in the context of this regional festival and beyond. This pavilion should serve as a prototype and statement for the systemic change urgently needed today and initiate participation and debate as a public platform. As a stage, exhibition structure and living archive, it should allow audiences to engage and document this exchange of knowledge for future use. Initiating the act of talking about Tomorrow and providing a particular setting for these talks to take place, the structure should gather and accommodate various audiences during the festival – globally and locally in Stuttgart.

The design will be developed in collaboration with local artist Tobias Ruppert, input from renewable energy experts and the local community of Ostfildern, Stuttgart, where the journey will begin. Over the course of the festival, the structure will move from site to site, driving the debate across the region, a choreography that needs to be designed as part of this workshop and explored through field trips. Studio visits and expert lectures accompany this onsite event.

The pavilion will be fabricated by the “KulturRegion Stuttgart“ after the workshop. It is possible for students to take part in the fabrication process as an extension of the workshop. The pavilion will be presented at the “Solar Biennale“ in Rotterdam in autumn 2022.

The workshop is credited with 3 ECTS.
Full scholarships are available for ABK students.

For information and application see 
https://stuttgart.aaschool.ac.uk/
https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/academicprogrammes/visitingschool
or contact Prof. Marianne Mueller or Chrissie Muhr, AA Visiting School Programme Heads at the ABK Campus.