Shin Egashira is an architect, artist, educator and PhD candidate. His collaborative work includes experiments to reconstruct Alfred Jarry's Time Machine with astrophysicist Andrew Jaffe and conducting landscape workshops with rural and inner-city communities. Shin joined the AA in 1990 and since 1996 has been Unit Lead of Diploma 11, which critically documenting neoliberal urban development in London. Shin holds visiting professorships at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and the University of Hong Kong. 

Participants will move between different geographical and cultural contexts, allowing experiences from one site to inform the next:

• Landscape – observation of territory and rural knowledge
• City – social and cultural infrastructures of neighbourhood life
• Making – fabrication, craft, and material experimentation

Through the process, design knowledge emerges through encounters between place, people and material practice