19. 5. 2025 from 6pm
UMPRUM Technological Centre, Mikulandská 134/5, Prague 1, 3. patro, kino
Romea Muryń and Francisco Lobo, who lead the studio's cloistered workshop, will speak as part of the Studio of Architecture I's internal lecture series.
Romea Muryń a Francisco Lobo: Hidden Narratives
Lecture
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Francisco Lobo and Romea Muryń are the founders of LOCUMENT – a research studio that combines filmmaking with architecture research. They use architecture and film as analytical, critical and subversive tools to emphasise contemporary issues and dissect their resolutions. They see the importance of observing rapidly changing social conditions through the influential factors of technology, economy, politics and urban environment. Drawing from contemporary scenarios, LOCUMENT travels to unique locations to base their research topics, finding in them situations that, while site-specific, reflect problematics that resonate throughout the globe. Bringing out these underlying stories, their work focuses on recreating the complex storyline hidden under the surface of the visible spectrum.
LOCUMENT movies have been screened internationally at exhibitions and film festivals such as – the 15th and 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, Italy); the 25th Biennial of Design Ljubljana (Slovenia); Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisbon (Portugal); Tbilisi Architecture Biennial & In-Between Conditions Media Art Festival (Georgia); Commiserate Chicago Media Art Festival (US), MAXXI The National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome (Italy), the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Portugal), Tabakalera - International Centre for Contemporary Culture (Spain), International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam and Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival (Netherlands). They have collaborated with academic institutions such as MIT Architecture Department (Cambridge, US), Amsterdam University of Arts, Academy of Architecture (Netherlands), The Bartlett School of Architecture (Netherlands), Bartlett Prospective - UCL The Bartlett School of Architecture (United Kingdom), INDA - Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Architecture (Thailand) and FAVUT Faculty of Architecture in Brno (Czech Republic). Currently, they are Associate Lecturers at the Royal College of Art and lead studio ADS11.