The Night School: FREE STUDIO

​The Night School (TNS) is running two live, in person events as part of The Architecture Lobby's online ABC 2022.

​This event, FREE STUDIO - Liberation as Praxis will take an online workshop developed by Gustavo Garcia Vaca in Los Angeles, and adapt it to Tāmaki Makaurau.

​FREE STUDIO envisions the academic design studio setting as an interdisciplinary space that elevates freedom of creative endeavor and a multiplicity of approaches. FREE STUDIO connects the studio with abstract visual art, abolitionist practice, futurism and liberatory music concepts.The work of author/artist Patrisse Cullors, architect Sumayya Vally and Detroit Techno artists Underground Resistance and Jeff Mills, and others will be discussed. Opening up new ways of thinking [both from within and from without ourselves] can potentially lead to material changes in our bodies and our environment. FREE STUDIO is liberated from the constraints of grading, administrative systems, client concerns, programmatic limitations and prescribed outcomes. FREE STUDIO allows the flow of ideas from our pasts/heritages/cultures, from our tenuous yet precious present and from the future selves that we are becoming.

​This event will be hosted at Brightside at AUT behind Mojo Cafe on Symonds Street. Follow TNS Signage for entry.

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​Please Note: This is an in-person event only that will test the act of ‘methodology borrowing’: adapting an online event into a live format to be performed in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa (New Zealand). Registration for the online event can be accessed through Lu.ma.

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​The Night School is part of a practice-based doctoral research project at the Auckland University of Technology’s Huri te Ao - School of Future Environments. Because reflections on this event, photographs, and other recording tools used at this event may be included in the research and its outputs, attendees will need to read and sign an information sheet providing their voluntary consent, accessible here: Information for participants - The Night School (TNS)

​All TNS events will adhere to the AUT ethical guidelines of partnership, protection and participation.