Lunchtime Lectures: Superstudio and Life without objects: the need of Utopian Thinking 

This lecture was prompted by an important publication on Superstudio's work, held by the V&A National Art Library, with a title  Superstudio: Life without Objects (Peter Lang, William Menking,Milan, Skira, 2003). The lecture will go through the most pivotal work by the Italian Avant Garde design collective, Superstudio, that challenged the modernist orthodoxy and pioneered the radical design movement of the 60’s and 70’s. 

Artemis Papachristou is an architect and researcher from Greece. She studied architecture at the University of Thessaly and The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and critical philosophy at The New Centre for Research and Practice. She has worked, exhibited and lectured internationally (Whale's Architect-Athens, Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes-Paris, Karim Rashid, NYC, MCMa-London).  She represented Greece in 2017 in Mediterranea 20 Young Artists Biennale and has given lectures in UCL, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and The New  School,NYC. Her work approaches architecture beyond its spatial realm by combining writing and other media to comment on our current habitation on earth as extractive species. She joined the V&A in 2024.