Movement Forum was a mobile laboratory addressing urgent questions in the design of urban (im)mobilities. It brought together spatial and choreographic practitioners to explore how new, shared methodologies spanning these fields could be developed in response to injustice and unsustainability in urban movement. How can new forms of interdisciplinarity between city-making and dance-making help engender care for bodies, both human and non-human, in urban landscapes?

With Theatrum Mundi, we commissioned architecture collective à la sauvette to develop their idea Dance is Politics as a methodology for embodied space-making in relation to questions of mobility justice in each city. Inviting a local choreographer to conceive of a collective movement responding to each theme, we will stage a party as an experiment in temporary transformation of socio-spatial conditions.

Through autumn 2021, fellows of Future Architecture Platform were invited to participate in three two-day labs taking place in Paris, London, and Lisbon. In each lab session, one FAP fellow presented a workshop exploring relationships between urban landscapes and diverse experiences of mobility, while architecture collective à la sauvette created scenographies for a series of parties that would transform these relationships.

The outcomes of the three workshops are documented in the publication Encounters, edited by Fani Kostourou and Elahe Karimnia, as well as the film Topographies of Bodies and Landscape.