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	Critical Subjects: Architecture & Design Winter School think critically, design differently

mantownhuman hosts Critical Subjects, Architecture & Design Winter School on 17-18 November. This experimental event will take place at The Kowalsky Gallery, Great Sutton Street, London EC1.

Critical Subjects is a unique opportunity for 20 or so of the keenest students in the country to engage in a series of intellectual architectural design challenges facilitated by leading names in the field. Note: This is a free, but intense, event and not for the fainthearted.

Over the course of a day and a half, we will explore topics such visionary architecture, social criticism, historical-thinking and the nature of Good Design. Workshops will provide an open dialogue on classic texts and film, as well as sessions on measured drawing, the politics of design, human creativity, culture, development and the role of expertise.

There will be six different workshops providing students with the opportunity to explore these, and many other issues, in close collaboration with a guest tutor/critic.

The day begins with a short lecture followed by workshops, debates, activities and tutorials culminating with a live project brief to be announced at 20:00pm. This design project needs to be completed by 08:30 the following morning. Tutors will be visiting at intervals throughout the night to give impromptu pep talks on relevant themes.

On the second day, the students will have their final designs reviewed by an important panel of leading architectural commentators, academics and practitioners. Here, the students will be required to defend - rather than justify - their work using the armoury of argumentative styles and ideas garnered over the previous 24 hours.

mantownhuman's Winter School will present students with ideas, not just skills.

The day closes with prize-giving and a reception. Projects will be exhibited.