MArch Design for Performance and Interaction at the Bartlett School of Architecture will form its contribution around contemporary PolySocial Realities. Coined in 2011, the term PolySocial Realities has unfolded and accelerated over the past decade until it not only pervades daily life, but indeed is daily life. Initially conceived of as a model to illustrate multi-directional and multi-platform information and communication across scales of time and space (biological and artificial human/animal/plant and machine), agents and modes, PoSRs not only remains prescient after a decade but extends further than anticipated. While questions of misinterpretation and misunderstanding will always exist, at the core of PoSR in 2021 and its complex ecology of interaction lies potential. We will use concepts of interconnectivity to have real and virtual events and platforms talk to each other to form polysocial interaction; through the communication of physical and digital participants within a fragmented exhibition environment, we will ask questions and explore answers and experiences together with festival-goers.

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Autoglyph, PolySocial Realities and Virtualities, Bartlett School of Architecture [MArch Design for Performance and Interaction Interactive Architecture Lab] & Partners (UK), Credits: Alfred Cassels

BartlettTV, PolySocial Realities and Virtualities, Bartlett School of Architecture [MArch Design for Performance and Interaction Interactive Architecture Lab] & Partners (UK), Credits: Amy Johnson

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PolySocial Project Exhibition

Bartlett School of Architecture Design for Performance and Interaction Students 2020-2021

A student project exhibition showcasing MArch Design for Performance and Interaction work in progress. A physical exhibition housed in an East London venue, projects will also be made accessible online as a narrated walk-through which will be live streamed on various platforms.

Bartlett IAL in Conversation

Interactive Architecture Lab & Partners

Peeking behind the doors of London’s creative industry, this film is a collection of interviews and studio visits led by students. Interview partners and studios visited include Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Jason Bruges Studio, Marshmallow Laser Feast, and other friends of the Interactive Architecture Lab.

Polysocial Realities: the Emancipatory Potential of Technology to Build Communities

Pintian Liu, Jenn Leung, Arshiya Vij, Serra Ozdemir, Jyles Rodgers

A student-led panel conversation, exploring the following themes through the lens of technology: community building; expanding subjectivities; polysocial or parasocial; revolutionary movements; traces of communication; presence and/or absence; deferral and difference, mismatch and incongruity; provocative/viable/safe spaces; identity (politics); xenofeminism; (machine learning) bias.

Polysocial Podcast

Amy Johnson, Mahalia Henry-Richards, Christl Baur, Manuela Hillmann

Launching the first podcast in a series on Polysocial Realities, creative researchers Amy Johnson and Mahalia Henry-Richards chat with Christl Baur and Manuela Hillmann of Ars Electronica Festival. They discuss the role of cultural institutions as platforms for communication and provocation.

Credits

Bartlett School of Architecture [MArch Design for Performance and Interaction Interactive Architecture Lab] & Partners, Dr. Fiona Zisch, Michael Wagner, Alice Whewell, Dr. Ruairi Glynn