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Transmissions, a cross-college research symposium at the Royal College of Art

9 May 2022

Pedagogy
Conference
Dialogue
Transmissions, conceived in a paradoxical climate of hyperconnectivity and restricted mobility, seeks to explore how various mediums of communication have enabled close encounter, tender gathering and urgent collectivism, in a time of quarantine and its attendant isolationist and individualising registers of foreclosure.

We are interested in forms of social encounter alongside the matter that has served as its conduit, taking in our scope transmission mediums of varying material qualities and relationships to Earth and body (cables, broadcast, waves, satellites, viruses, voice, gesture, post, messaging, wire, ghosts, utterance, etc.).

The symposium is conceived and led by Adam Kaasa, Thandi Loewenson and David Burns of the Fiction Feeling Frame research collective in the Royal College of Art School of Architecture.

See full symposium programme here.

Funded by the RCA Cross-College Symposium Fund. 



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From ‘Frames of Love, or Love’s Perspective’ (2018)

‘Love’s perspective might be a window into someone’s life. Or perhaps it is more like a signal that one sees and likes and recognizes what another or other put/s forward as a framed structure of their feeling of life.’
- Adam Kaasa
From ‘Feeling Bodies of Architecture: Towards an Incommensurable Pedagogy’ (2023)

‘Space, time, energy must be made for the bodies of architecture to be present in this new pedagogic performance, for feeling in both senses of the word to happen, for bodies that have moved to be moved again, by and through each other.’
- Adam Kaasa