Inspired by the 2022 London Festival of Architecture, the RA Architecture Symposium will look broadly at the theme of ‘act’, and invites submissions from architects, researchers, artists and spatial practitioners on angles including activism, the agency of architects, collaboration, theatricality, and narrative in architecture.

Connecting also to the Royal Academy exhibition John Hejduk: London Masque, the symposium welcomes considerations of Hejduk’s idea of “Building Worlds”, and the way that architecture can help us to imagine alternative realities as part of a wider cultural conversation.