SOS_23 presents the work of 13 emerging artists and designers. They explore ways that community-focused participatory design can work for everyone’s benefit.
School SOS works at the intersection of Higher Education after care, artist, designer and spatial practitioner development programme to help artists and spatial practitioners develop new and specific, financially viable creative practices that centre lived experiences within their community. The 2023 participants were selected from an open call and through the four-week course have had access to workshops in digital media making and presentations from leading artists, designers and writers.
This presentation in the SLG’s Fire Station attic, offers a snapshot of their individual research projects. The presentations show the beginnings of future projects, collaborations and their personal practice.
SOS23 Participants
Toyosi Adenuga
Mareena DeGuzman Khawar
Miriam Dreyer
Amy Grant
Demitri Kirlew
Dan Norman
Lucy Nurnberg
Lenny Rajmont
Caitlin Strongarm
Francesca Telling
River Wittke
Yunxi Wu
Ollie Goldman-Jacob
BIOGRAPHIES
School SOS is an ever-growing partnership between practising designers, artists, students, cultural institutions, sponsors, existing schools and universities. As such, SOS is a network of like-minded individuals.
Pierre Shaw: Cofounder and Director
Pierre obtained his BA in Architecture at the University of Sheffield before completing an MA in Architecture at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 2018. Pierre is now an Associate Lecturer and Assistant Lead of superFUTURES at the RCA School of Architecture where he has most recently exhibited for the UN Foundation at ASRA’s Currents of Change: New Horizons in Systemic Risk. He is a PhD candidate researcher in critical spatial practices and pedagogy at the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury.
Kishan San: Cofounder and Director
Kishan completed a BA in Architecture at the University of Westminster in 2015 and a Diploma in Architecture at the Architectural Association in 2019. Kishan works as a Researcher at the Turner Prize-nominated human rights research agency Forensic Architecture (FA), based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
With FA his work has been tabled for discussion at European Parliament (the LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) and has been published in numerous media outlets including, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Der Spiegel, Mediapart, Efsyn, and Madr Masr.
