Production still, London, UK, 2017

Production still, London, UK, 2017

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The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture

The Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—a key experiment in distance and adult education, was part of the socially progressive reforms of the Labour Party between 1964 and 1970. Through courses such as A305, The Open University extended higher education beyond a typical class of students by using media as a tool to transform both the production and transmission of knowledge. A305 used publication, correspondence, and a complex system of local and regional centres to disseminate that knowledge across an entire country.” Read more about the exhibition here.

Canadian Centre For Architectire
Curator: Joaquim Moreno
Oral history film and content director: Shahab Mihandoust

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“The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, document a series of interviews between Joaquim Moreno, the curator of the exhibition, and Stephen Bayley, Tim Benton, Adrian Forty, and Nick Levinson. The exhibition and the films will be a point of departure for a roaming public conversation on the relationship between media, technology, architecture, and public education, which will continue through 2018.” Read more here.

Adrian Forty was a lecturer in The Open University course A305, History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939, to which he contributed a consideration for the design of common objects, for anonymous history, and for electric domestic appliances. He is interested in energy systems shared by a broad collective, which he discusses with Joaquim Moreno in an interview conducted in London in July 2017.