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Sea Ranch, United States	The Sea Ranch as Prototype – Form. Culture. Context.	19–28 July 2026	Tyan Masten
Mexico City, Mexico	Excess and Experiment	20–31 July 2026	Andrés Souto Vilaros, Elliot Rogosin
Bedford Square, London, UK	DLAB: Robotic 3D Printing	20 July to 7 August 2026	Milad Showkatbakhsh
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Subjective Tectonics: Roof / Teto	23 July – 1 August 2026	Roberto Boettger, Olivia Neves Marra
Bedford Square, London, UK	Film-Architecture Forum	24–28 July 2026	Marko Milovanovic
Kanazawa, Japan	Vernacular Craft to Digital Fabrication	27 July – 9 August 2026	Andres Luhr, Erika Suzuki
Hooke Park, United Kingdom	The Earthbound Groundscraper	27 July – 1 August 2026	Paul Feeney, Marie-Louise Raue
South Korea, South Korea	Encoded Heritage	29 July – 9 August 2026	Jisoo Hwang, Shot Ito, Terrance Tae Hyuk Kim
Bedford Square, London, UK	Publishing-Architecture Forum	31 July – 4 August 2026	Marko Milovanovic
Viljandi, Estonia	Fellin Retreat Chapter One: Tuli	2–8 August 2026	Emma Marta Berzin, Sam Aleksander

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Location

Chengdu, China

Programme

Adapting the City

Dates

29 June – 10 July 2026

Programme Heads

Stewart Dodd, Zhaoxi Tian, Zhuxuan Yang

Brief

When our perception, behaviours and judgements are constantly recorded, calculated and guided, do we still have control over our own bodily experience? As algorithms become embedded in everyday life, the body is no longer simply something that belongs to us, but increasingly operates as an interface – one that can be identified, predicted and directed. This year, the programme begins from here, exploring how bodily experience is produced and translated within digital systems.

Chengdu is a major city in southwest China, a key inland–west connector, and an increasingly visible, attention-driven city. Here, the city can be understood as an 'algorithmic centre' layered through cultural symbols, consumer spaces and social media circulation. Through observation, research, analysis and drawing, students will identify the key structures of bodily experience and examine how they intersect with the algorithmic rules embedded in the city. These investigations will be further filtered and developed into a relational framework between bodies and digital systems.

Building on this research, students will design and produce a series of 'bodily devices' – ranging from wearable structures (XS) to spatial interventions (XL), from low-tech to high-tech, translating research into embodied experiments. These devices, will act both as responses to algorithmic environments and as mediums to reopen the possibilities of bodily experience, exploring how bodies might negotiate, deviate from or reimagine their position within these systems.

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Biographies

Stewart Dodd is a registered architect and educator. Having taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and the AA since 1995 and worked in architectural practices throughout the world, his focus over the past 10 years has been on the bringing together of design and making to create built forms in the teaching environment. From 2011–13 he ran the AAVS in Oregon, US and since 2014 he has led the AAVS in Chengdu, China.

Zhaoxi Tian is a multidisciplinary designer, architect, educator and a graduate of the AA. He is a visiting professor at Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts and teaches as a visiting tutor at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and the University of Liverpool. He has contributed to and led numerous large-scale cultural projects and exhibited works at prestigious venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Power Station of Art in Shanghai and the TATE. As a cofounder of the interdisciplinary studio HALF BOTTLE, he focuses on spatial narratives through exhibition-making and spatial design.

Zhuxuan Yang is an architectural designer, teacher and cofounder of HALF BOTTLE. She holds a BA from the University of Liverpool and a MA from Royal College of Art (RCA), and currently a visiting professor at Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. Her professional practice has spanned the UK and China, where she has engaged in projects shaped by urban renewal and cultural identity. Working across disciplines, she and her studio have engaged with emerging formats and multimedia technologies through various projects. Together, their projects have been presented at major art fairs and institutions, including ART 021 Shanghai Art Fair, Beijing International Design Week, and the Power Station of Art.

Skills

Teaching delivered by architects, interaction designers, digital artists with backgrounds in spatial experimentation, installation practice and research-led design.
Contribute through interdisciplinary dialogue, critical discussion and hands-on testing.
Experiment across multiple media, including physical installations, digital imaging, interactive software and AI-assisted tools.
Explore how the body can be re-understood as a site of perception, judgment and action within contemporary environments increasingly shaped by predictive and algorithmic systems, building interdisciplinary thinking that bridges architecture, media and technology.

Eligibility

The workshop is open to prospective and current architecture students, recent graduates and young architecture professionals, designers, artists and all creatives.

Fees

£695 – Full Fee
£550 – Early Bird Fee (apply before 30 April 2026 to redeem)

Students are required to bring their own laptops.

Applications

Applications for this programme close 22 June 2026

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