About the project
This project was led by Katie Lloyd Thomas and Joao Marcos de Almeida Lopes, with Linda Clarke as a member of the project Advisory Board and Christine Wall and Nick Beech as Affiliated Researchers. It is funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), £727,077 over four years, 2020-2024.
This ongoing research is a joint Brazil/UK project funded by the AHRC and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) with the aim of defining and consolidating a new field of Production Studies, structured and informed by the work of Brazilian architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro.
Translating ferro/transforming knowledge (TF/TK) explores and translates into English the single most sustained and rigorous enquiry into art, architecture and design from the perspective of labour in any language – that of the still-active Brazilian-French historian, theorist and architect, Sérgio Ferro. His work demonstrates that architecture’s very existence is predicated on the separation of design from the construction site. In the context of the depletion of resources and ever worsening and increasingly disconnected conditions of contemporary construction across the globe, TF/TK looks to Ferro’s work to advance the critical understanding of relations between architectural design and the production and labour of building, with the aim to foster, responsible and just alternatives and develop urgently needed field of Production Studies.
Contact
For further information, email Professor Emerita Christine Wall at [email protected].
Outputs
In autumn 2022 TF/TK presented a series of five lectures and discussions in collaboration with Central St Martins, drawing on the theory and ideas of Sérgio Ferro. Watch the talks here:
- Concrete Experiments - 12 October
- Emancipatory Practices - 20 October
- Beyond Separated Design - 27 October and Matrix “Making Space” Book Discussion
- Building Alliances - 3 November
- Production Pedagogies - 17 November