Interview, Fireside Chat
Sumayya Vally, Founder and Director of Counterspace
- Architecture is expected to act as an unifying force countering segregated urban design, with urban infrastructure change anticipated to remain very slow due to entrenched segregation structures.
- Future collaboration aims to facilitate diverse perspectives on challenges and encourage appreciation for physical human presence.
- The professional practice intends to continuously translate urban phenomena and draw inspiration from other creative disciplines, acknowledging the traditionally slow pace of the field.
- The Folded Skies project targets mining buffer zones to reframe perspectives on extraction, resources, and labor, while the pavilion design will generate intimate gathering islands facing one another to form larger collective spaces.
- The Support Structures for Support Structure Network is projected to outlast the initial project life, with the Serpentine committed to sustaining the network for at least three years.
- Artist participation in the network is forecasted to expand from ten artists in the first year to an increasing number in subsequent years, aiming to create and sustain diverse artistic connections.