lectures

Dream Maps

Architectural Association School of Architecture

October 21

AA Lecture Hall, 36 Bedford Square

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Guided by Sarah Shin and So Mayer, explore the continuity and imbrication of physical and imaginary worlds, using the tools of creative writing and creative geographies. This workshop will include readings and explorations from The Word for World and Space Crone and writing exercises from Steering the Craft.


So Mayer is a writer, editor, bookseller and organiser. With Sarah Shin, they co-edited Ursula K Le Guin, Space Crone (Silver Press, 2023), winner of the 2024 Locus Award for Non-Fiction. They are the author of two works of creative non-fiction, Bad Language (Peninsula, 2025) and A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula, 2020); a Republic of Consciousness-longlisted collection of speculative (non)-fiction, Truth & Dare (Cipher, 2023); and poetry projects including The God Files: Yentling (2024) with Sarah Crewe, raising funds for #Valentines4Palestine. They are the editor of catflap #5 for Outburst Arts, and of Culture Club, the webzine of queer feminist film curation collective Club Des Femmes.

Sarah Shin explores dreams, myth, cosmic speculation and transformation through writing, research, publishing, curation and creation. Her current collaborations include: with Irene Revell, the Bodies of Sound book and curatorial project; with Sammy Lee, Mirror, a video game that journeys through a mythical world of correspondences; and Concrete Poetry with Mark Lowe. She is a founder of Silver Press, the feminist publisher, and Spiral House, a new imprint for art, poetry and ways of knowing; Ignota, the creative publishing and curatorial house that closed in 2024; New Suns literary festival at the Barbican Centre; and Standard Deviation.



Image: Ursula K. Le Guin, “Central and Western Earthsea, for A Wizard of Earthsea,” 1968. Courtesy Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries; and the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation



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