Week 1 Room

Each student will be assigned an unbuilt tower of London which they will reappropriate in a group collage to create the skyline of Babylon. This will become the backdrop to our first stage: the room. Within the room the students will frame Babylon, exploring city life at a human scale. A newspaper will be produced, for delivery each morning, reporting on the latest news from Babylon.

Week 2 Tower

In the second week students will continue to develop a narrative for Babylon, but this time at Tower scale. Students will divide into pairs to create backdrops for individual towers of Babylon. News of Babylon’s development and expansion will continue to be reported through the daily newspaper, addressing how the city is read at Tower scale.

Week 3 City

For the final week we will insert our towers into the wider urban grain and explore what it is like to live in Babylon at City scale. In pairs, the students will now develop the stage to become that of the city. The daily newspaper will continue to report the city’s news, now questioning the difference between the room, the tower and the city.

Activities

• AA Cinema Screening of Syndecdoche New York

• National Theatre Backstage Tour

Output• Research unbuilt Towers• Group Collage of Babylon• Room Stage Set• Daily Newspaper

Activities

• Centre Point Viewing Platform and Drinks

• PunchDrunk Talk / Tour• AA Student Archives

Output• Tower Stage Sets• Daily Newspaper

Activities

• Visit to Gallery• AA Cinema Screening of

Metropolis

Output• City Stage Sets• Daily Newspaper• Special Newspaper Archive

Edition

Questions• What is the relationship

between the room and the skyline?

• Who lives in Babylon? • What is life like in Babylon?

Questions• How does the tower relate

to the room and the skyline? • How do people and

buildings interact with their neighbours?

Questions• What are people talking

about in Babylon? • What are the latest

development proposals for Babylon?

• How are these being received?

Madeleine Kessler AADipl MEng.(Hons.)Maddie has been working at Studio Weave since graduating from the AA in 2013. Previously she gained a Masters degree in Structural Engineering and Architecture from Sheffield University. Maddie is interested in urbanism and the condition of the global city. She has worked in China, Switzerland, Belgium and The UK. Most recently, Maddie was awarded the

Manijeh Verghese AADipl(Hons)An AA graduate with a previous degree in Architecture and Mathematics, Manijeh is a tutor, editor and writer. Having previously worked for practices in London and Boston, she currently teaches an Intermediate unit at the AA, is the Salon coordinator at Disegno magazine and is the editor and founder of the website, AA Conversations. Manijeh is interested in the idea of cultural context and the communication of information through various media

KPF Traveling Fellowship, facilitating anexploration in cross-cultural exchange between urban centres along The Silk Road through Central Asia.

and formats, which is the subject of her monthly article for Balmond Studio’s website, Thinking in Practice.

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