Collective Supperclub
EVENTS | PROGRAMMING
In 2020, Collective Supperclub is an evening of food and conversation, hosted by Migrant’s Bureau, with emerging and established collectives, organisations and practitioners, who are architectural/design & cultural workers. This event enabled collective forms of practical, social and intellectual knowledge and skills sharing, whilst providing the space and time for practitioners in different stages of their professions to come together and support one another in a ‘dinner table conversation’ setting. The conversation was mediated by ‘Pecha Kucha’ style presentations by invited speakers.
OVERVIEW
Team: Migrant’s Bureau
Status: Completed
Client: Migrant’s Bureau
Location: London
ROLE
Navigating the built environment profession
“If only there was an easy way to find everything you need to know to as an architectural, design and cultural worker to achieve work and carry forward ideas towards execution whilst getting paid well, and in time, whilst having great mental and physical health, whilst knowing your rights, whilst not getting on anyone’s bad side, whilst choosing collaborators whose values match yours, whilst maintaining transparency with your collaborators, whilst knowing how to navigate through elitist and racist institutions, whilst having a social life and so on.”
To reiterate the ethos of collective knowledge sharing, each Speaker is invited to deliver a Pecha Kucha-style talk on a specific topic relating to their practice. The ‘Pecha Kucha’ (which is Japanese for ‘chit chat’) is a form of visual storytelling where the speaker shows an assortment of images whilst explaining their narrative. Taking from the quick-fire nature of a Pecha Kucha, speakers chose one particular topic to touch upon, using their images as an aid. This format is in place to challenge modes of knowledge sharing and provide starting points to engage in long term conversations with people across the room.
