Mosallas Talk Series is a chain of architecture-related events regularly organized by the Iranian Architects Society, each time revolving around a new theme and curated by a different architect.

Professionals with different backgrounds each present a short speech of 7-10 minutes related to the selected theme. They are supposed to communicate with the audience in a brief, fast and efficient way. They do not explore the subject deeply, but rather try to invoke keywords and generate questions, the goal is not necessarily to provide answers. 

 

 

 

 

 

In the third Mosallas talk series, “Let’s Swing A Little”, held in April 2017 and curated by Bahram Kalantari, Fereshteh Assadzadeh, and Alma Rahmani, the reviewed subjects were considered to be in the margin of the profession of architecture, but nevertheless having a significant impact on the profession. The categories of the topics were: talking about architecture, the practice of architecture, representation of architecture, the feedback of architecture. Every two of the total 8 seven-minute long speeches fit in one of the above-mentioned categories. The speeches were performed in the following order:

 

1. On why and how to write a statement for a work of architecture – Ramin Beyraghdar
2. How can we really talk about an architectural project – Alireza Taghaboni
3. Strategy in managing a medium-scale architecture office – Mahsa Majidi
4. Tactic in managing a small-scale architecture office – Amin Barzegar, Babak Rostamian
5. The adventures of a film director in the city center – Alireza Rasoulinejad
6. The house Tehran is talking about – Fereshteh Assadzadeh, Ivo Pekeč
7. The location-based game Utopia and digital interaction with the city – Behzad Khorram
8. The citizen plays the first role – Lena Vafaey

 

The video of the event will be uploaded soon.