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ARAt the Architectural Institute of Paris, architect and researcher Maria Fedorchenko presented a public lecture exploring how architecture can respond to complex infrastructural systems and dynamic processes while retaining architectural expertise. Drawing on more than a decade of experimentation in her research-design studio at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, the talk focused on projects addressing circular material ecologies, transit infrastructures, and systemic interdependencies.
The lecture outlined an emerging working methodology that bridges analytical and speculative modes—linking data-driven diagnostics and world-modelling with cartographic and diagrammatic tools, as well as narrative and visual techniques. Through a series of research and design projects, the presentation reconstructed key stages of work: constructing and visualising contexts, mapping processes and building microcosms, and formulating possible futures and architectural scenarios.
Moving across media, scales, and ideological positions, this hybrid methodology reasserts architecture’s ability to negotiate between fact and fiction, diagram and narrative, and the abstract and the concrete. The lecture ultimately called for speculative architectural projects capable of engaging with current crises while projecting radical alternatives.
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