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OPEN2020 Rolling Programme and Launch

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The OPEN2020 has been revised to more accurately reflect its nature as a rolling programme of events and an evolving platform being created by the School’s staff and students.

As a result, the schedule of events is planned to take place as follows:

6.30pm, Thursday 2 July

  • Introduction to the VirtualOPEN2020 programme and the collaborative OPENwestminster.london exhibition platform
  • OPEN2020 Catalogue and Film presentation

11am, Monday 6, Wednesday 8, and Friday 10 July

Digital Employability Skills for the Post Covid-19 World Webinar Series – for all SA+C students, hosted within the construction site of the Virtual OPEN2020 platform.

6.30pm, Thursday 16 July 

  • Opening of the VirtualOPEN2020 Exhibition Platform
  • Opening speech by Prof Sadie Morgan

OPEN 2020: School of Architecture and Cities Virtual Degree Show | Launch: Thursday, July 2 from 6pm to 9pm

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Exhibition continues online from Friday, July 3 to Wednesday, September 30, 2020

OPEN 2020 is a virtual exhibition of projects that reflect the varied design approaches of the School’s diverse students and staff, and our place at the heart of London.

Projects explore architecture at all scales, from door-handles to territories, with generosity, wit and verve. Not all of the projects quite work – but then they shouldn’t. Architecture school is a place for experimentation.

OPEN 2020 exhibits all manner of hand and digital drawings, models, films, and prototypes in a virtual setting.

Please join us online for the opening night, or at any time in the following weeks, to revel in the unpredictable, the challenging and the entertaining.

University of Westminster [westminster.ac.uk/events]

Preview

We are delighted to announce that the exhibition will be open by Professor Sadie Morgan OBE, on Thursday 2nd of July at 6pm.

To attend the preview, please register via Eventbrite. 

The show features the work of students from Architecture BA (Hons), Designing Cities: Planning and Architecture BA (Hons), Interior Architecture BA (Hons), Architectural Technology BSc (Hons), Architecture and Environmental Design BSc (Hons), Architecture MA.

It will continue online until Wednesday 30 September at 
http://openwestminster.london/

VirtualOPEN 2020, launch on July 2, 6pm!

Posted on by Mirna Pedalo

Due to exceptional circumstances caused by COVID-19 and the impossibility of holding our annual OPEN exhibition in our Marylebone Studios, we will conclude this academic year by launching VirtualOPEN. This will be the first online annual Exhibition celebrating the work of the School of Architecture + Cities. It has been envisaged as a navigable online show in which visitors will be able to view the work of all our design studios and year groups, as well as interact with each other. 

VirtualOPEN will celebrate the amazingly innovative output that has been created this year under the most difficult of circumstances. It will promote the collective endeavour of our students, staff and support staff, and give us a positive and celebratory end to the academic year after all the gloom of recent months. VirtualOPEN will feature the energy and talent of more than 750 students, re-tuned to the possibilities of a virtual environment to produce something experimental, unexpected and exciting. 

We look forward to welcoming you all to the opening at 6pm, Thursday, July 2!

Details of how the show will work and how you can contribute can be found here.