The 2020 LFA digital symposium, in partnership with Royal Academy captured, challenged, and explored the relationship between power, people and our built environment.
Emerging and established voices contributed to two sessions consisting of presentations and discussion – investigating the complex power relationships involved in the production of architecture, how it impacts people’s lives and how it can be used as a tool to affect change.
With presentations on issues ranging from London’s digital visibility to the notion of housing as a signifier of social standing, the first panel examined “power of place” in both geographical and digital terms.
The second panel explored key conversations around the “power of people”, including political activism as an alternative mode of urban design practice as well as the role of community protest in relations to the Olympic Games.
To see the recording of the symposium click on each of the videos below.
