Architecture Of Loss is an online publication of the students of Master of Research in Architecture at the Royal College of Art. It is dealing with the research question of : « How can rituals helps us adapt to limited space when we no longer have access to the city? How can we give meaning to a habi

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t and through it generate a discourse in relation to the lost city? ».

I explored this question through a drawing ritual. Water was a central element as an inspiration and a subject, as memories and as a method. A walk of the River Fleet was chosen as a subject embodying the loss of contact with the city. I used a drawing habit as a base to frame this experimentation into a weekly ritual, re-making the same 4 views starting with watercolor and drawing up to stop-motion This iteration is addressing three needs link to the
current health crisis: entertaining good memories; escaping the loss feeling through remembrance; anticipating an after through experimentations and skill development.

This project was an interesting way to work layers upon layers within an image, exploring if it could push above its weight in meaning by this layering, and trying a way to do research by project. The group have been engaged with this question in a process to develop a broader research question of « What is the relationship between loss and inequality in the city? How can loss be understood as a mechanism that is distributed unequally? How is loss spatialised? What is the relationship between urban change, memory, ritual, loss and grief?». Those questions have
been addressed through the organisation of an afternoon colloquium and a Q&A hosted by the Architectural Fondation a 100 days Studio.

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Type

Video, Research, Ritual, Group Work, Graphisme and Illustration

Methods

Research by Project, Stop Motion Video, Site Walking, Writting

Materials

Online Publication

Softwares

Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, PremierePro