WDA Conference Alero Olympio – Session: Social Transformations – FESCH.TV

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Social Transformations

Working between architecture, fashion, music, and writing, Alero Olympio resisted categorization and embraced the productive friction between creative practices. Employing critical fabulation, she disrupted omissions in disciplinary histories and allowed those who used her spaces to reimagine their relationships with the built environment. Centering production systems that tended to be obscured into focus, she expanded these into fruitful networks of makers and craftspeople, ushering in an era of rebuilding and decolonial worldforming. Olympio’s inclusive, polyvalent practice countered normative modes of architectural production, resulting in a redefined form of social entrepreneurship that built connections across disciplines and borders.

Panelists
Baerbel Mueller, Dean of the Institute of Architecture (I oA) University of Applied Arts Vienna; Associate Professor at the I oA; Head of [A]FA, Mag.arch (Master)
DK Osseo Asare, Associate Professor of Architecture and Engineering Design at Penn State University
Juliet Sakyi-Ansah, Founder, The Architects‘ Project; PhD Candidate, Oxford Brookes University; Visiting Tutor, University of Liverpool School of Architecture