ANASTASSIA SMIRNOVA: 'THE PARADOX BOX (STRELKA INSTITUTE)'

Guest lecture by Anastassia Smirnova, researcher, educator and programme director of Strelka Institute in Moscow.
Designing a program for a school for architecture and urbanism requires a good deal of clairvoyance. Anastassia Smirnova talks about how to train urban professionals and what kind of projects they will be able to work with in yet to be imagined settlements of tomorrow.
ANASTASSIA SMIRNOVA
is a Rotterdam-based author and researcher. Since its opening in 2010, she has been teaching at Strelka institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow: first, with Rem Koolhaas and, later, with the Swedish educator David Erixon (Hyper Island). In 2012, she became the programming director of the institute and, in collaboration with Erixon, authored “Strelka Method”, a declaration of Strelka educational principles and methodology in 2014. Anastassia currently designs the new international Master's program in Advanced Urban Design: it's a collaboration between Strelka Institute and the research university the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
In 2007, in association with an architect Alexander Sverdlov she established SVESMI (Moscow_Rotterdam), the first Dutch-Russian office for architecture, urbanism and multidisciplinary research. Her current work at SVESMI deals with the problematique of re-design of urban welfare systems and historic preservation as social and cultural issue.
NEW SCHOOL
The event is the first in the series 'New School', in which institutions founded or recast in the past decade are invited to present and argue for new models for learning architecture and other spatial practices.
Introduction by Björn Ehrlemark
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Recorded at the KTH School of Architecture on Dec 3, 2015. For information about upcoming public events, lectures and exhibitions, please visit or website our social media outlets:
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