Layered Dialogues: Society as Medium – In/Visible City

Another in the series of panel discussions based around the Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits exhibition at this venue (runs to 30 June and is well worth seeing). Artist Minouk Lim talks with Wael Al Awar, Principal architect and founding partner of hop studio waiwai, discuss the hidden infrastructures of the city – both material and social – that orchestrate urban life and social relations. How does infrastructure operate as both geopolitical script and social choreography? How do these systems emerge from, and reinforce, particular forms of social organisation?

Conceiving the city as a layered topography of speculative, real, and imagined mediums, ranging from master plans to maintenance routines, the discussion focuses on Gulf urbanism and the cultural logic embedded in its invisible systems. This should deliver some fascinating insights …