24cc

The Postgraduate Diploma in Spatial Performance and Design aims to create and define spatial arrangements and objects through performance and interaction. The studio utilises and links creative intelligence across multiple disciplines to achieve unique spatial conditions and generate a lasting interprofessional ethos among its participants.

This year the studio will create a series of three events that form the framework of the creative process. These events are the driving force behind the development of our creativity and innovation. Due to the overlap of the various disciplines that are involved in our work, the projects are experimental and often unprecedented.

The series '24cc' will explore the spatial and creative potential of three different locations throughout Europe. Each event will last 24 hours and attempt to create a continuously transforming environment that forms a '24-hour cinematic choreography' between architecture, dance, film, design, photography, fashion and art.

The first event in the series will take place in Cologne in conjunction with our local partners the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (HfMt) and the KunstSalon Foundation. The ideas and design explorations that are generated in the studio will be developed together with a local artist and will result in the first experimental day-long performance for the programme.

The unique results that are the outcome of the first event will be extended, varied and transformed into a 24 hour-long festival, which will take place in the Matadero Madrid plaza and its surrounding buildings. At this event the students will extend the initial structural ideas transforming them into the main spatial environments of the work; the music, dramaturgy and choreography will be elaborated and rehearsed; and the methods of documenting the process will attempt to allow for more precision and creative variation. The project is specifically placed within the socio-political environment of the Matadero area. In various workshops the students will test and discuss the events with the local community and audience alongside the event, which will have a profound effect on the outcome.

The final event takes place in London and has a direct relation to the AA. The event itself forms the basis for the discussion of the unique methods that are inherent and important to interprofessional design. This discussion takes place between the students, the partners, the Architectural Association, as well as with the creative community of London and beyond. The final event offers the students the possibility to establish their creative work within the community and to expand their professional network beyond the scope of the course.

AAIS Programme Tutors

Andy Dean is a British record producer, remixer, DJ, songwriter and soundtrack composer who is credited with 20 million album sales and numerous awards for his work with artists Joss Stone, Texas and Gabrielle. Currently he is the CEO and Founder of Music Technology Ltd, producing expert interactive digital engagement and communication tools for Pete Tong, Space nightclub in Ibiza and Sonica FM.

Renaud Wiser is a professional dance artist and choreographer who has worked for major dance companies across Europe including the Ballet Nattional de Marseille, The Gothenburg Ballet and Rambert Dance Company. He regularly leads a workshop creating dance works for students at Roehampton University and the Place and Rambert school. He is part of the dance collective New Movement.

Studio Master

Tanja Siems is an urban designer and infrastructural planner and the director of the interdisciplinary practice T2 spatialwork. The office addresses social, political, economic and environmental problems as fuel for the design process and the development of a dialogue that can lead to an enhanced built proposal or solution, rather than a reduced compromise. She co-leads the AAIS programme and is Professor of Urban Design at the BUW, Germany.

Studio Director

Theo Lorenz is a registered architect in England and Germany, as well as a painter and media artist. Working between art and architecture, his interest lies in the relation of digital and physical space and the associations between subjects and objects. He has been teaching at the AA since 2000 and has directed the AAIS programme since 2008.