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11/1/2015

Valeria Guzman Verri

AA - Architectural Association School of Architecture, London

Otto Neurath's From Hieroglyphics to Isotype, A Visual Autobiography, published for the first time in 2010, recounts the ways in which its author learnt to see through images, drawings, maps, paintings and other visual material from the end of 19thC. We will look at three themes formulated in the Autobiography: experiences of seeing, visual education, and the democratisation of knowledge, and will offer a consideration of a few of the modalities in which contemporary architecture still activates some of Neurath's most problematic aims, notably, the relationship between the use of graphic language and a subsequent aspiration to the enhancement of democratic societies. Valeria Guzman Verri holds an MA from the AA as well as a Ph.D in Histories and Theories of Architecture (AA, 2010). Her research interests focus on architectural representation and the relationships between form and knowledge. She has published on the visualisation of information in 19thC Europe, Otto Neurath's Visual Autobiography, and the work of artist Harun Farocki. She is a researcher and associate professor at the University of Costa Rica. 12/1/2015 Time 18:00.

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