School SOS_21, 2021. Photo credit: Fred Howarth.
School SOS is a nomadic not-for-profit school for creative practices in art, architecture and design. School SOS works at the intersection of Higher Education after care, artist, designer and spatial practitioner development programme and community-focused participatory design for public benefit. It works on how we can collectively make the use and experience of space fairer for everyone through education.
This year’s programme culminated in a one week-long residency at the South London Gallery. 13 participants from a wide range of design and art backgrounds share their response to this year’s brief in the Fire Station Gallery.
The designers, artists, and architects exhibit fragments of their developing practice ranging from research projects of indigenous Sami communities, investigations of state-controlled resource extraction, through to developing pathways in black arts education and decolonising photo-journalism practices.
School SOS_22 Participants:
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Moyo Adebayo
Ivan Bezerra
Vernetta Chukwu
Zakiyyah Haffejee
Tanya Haldipur
Isaac Huxtable
Jennifer Jones
Dan Johnston
Lara Kobeissi
Saffron Mustafa
Chandni Patel
Malgorzata (Margo) Sulek
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.
