Dezeen School Shows: a fictional project set in a hyper-nationalist world and a speculative take on the reinvention of football are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Paris School of Architecture.

Also included is an alternative history where time travel has allowed "the creation of a long-term climate parliament in 1994" and a project that envisions an extreme feminism movement born from Me Too.

Paris School of Architecture

Institution: Paris School of Architecture
Course: Master's in Architecture
Tutor: Henry Beech Mole, Salvator-John A. Liotta and Martin Tubiana

School Statement:

"Paris School of Architecture is an experimental and innovative new architecture school with an international focus based in central Paris. It is the only entirely postgraduate architecture school in France teaching solely in the English language and prepares its graduates to operate across Europe and the rest of the world.

"PSA is pedagogically radical and experimental. It is the first new independent school of architecture in Paris in over a century, created in response to the radical changes over the last decade, and the changing nature of architectural practice today.

"Moving away from the instructive pedagogical methods of the past, it is a place for the incubation and development of each student's individual ideas, situated within the context of a support network of practicing architects and designers.

"SHOW 2022 is PSA's annual end-of-year exhibition, showcasing work from each student at the school. The show is both an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the academic year, as well as to provoke and promote discourse with the wider public."

Stateless Embassy by Delaney Inamine

"This is a political fictional project set in a hyper-nationalist and hyper-globalist world. Here the number of stateless people  – both voluntary expats and involuntary refugees – is at an all-time high, thus creating a need for an embassy representing the stateless.

"The embassy evolves as our borders become more fluid and eventually disappear, forcing us to question how we create buildings, institutions or (dare we say) nations for an ever-changing, dynamic population."

Student: Delaney Inamine
Course: Year 2 Architecture
Tutors: Henry Beech Mole, Salvator-John A. Liotta and Martin Tubiana
Email: delaney.inamine[at]parisarch.fr

The Ark of the Moment by Eyub Acikgoz

"We have done nothing for climate change, and so it has been foretold: there will be a flood of boundless might in seven years. Attempting to save our lives is futile.

"This project seeks to build a communal construction site to spend the last years of our existence in a life of sacred craft, play and rest."

Student: Eyub Acikgoz
Course: Year 1 Architecture
Tutors: Henry Beech Mole, Salvator-John A. Liotta and Martin Tubiana
Email: eyub.acikgo[at]@parisarch.fr

Gorged by Fanney Margrét Eiríksdóttir

"A critical design project set a century from now in a future scenario where humanity can be tempted to disgorge anthropogenic climate effects through capitalism and religion, enacted through the adoption of a carbon currency.

"In this possible future, a new religious value-system that deifies the Earth leads to the creation of subterranean cities within the Earth's lithosphere. Here, the ruined surface above is abandoned save for the infrastructural requirements necessitated by the carbon currency."

Student: Fanney Margrét Eiríksdóttir
Course: Year 1 Architecture
Tutors: Henry Beech Mole, Salvator-John A. Liotta and Martin Tubiana
Email: fanney.eiriksdottir[at]parisarch.fr

The Freedom Games by Oluwaremilekun Ojumu

"A speculative take on the reinvention of football to critically show the commercialisation of the sport. In doing so, a new tournament is created – The Freedom Games – in which prisoners compete for their freedom.

"Optically, there are two domains: the private recording studio based within the prison and the virtual reality realm where the spectacle will be showcased to fans; conveying how capitalism could change the future of sports, entertainment, and fan experience."

Student: Oluwaremilekun Ojumu
Course: Year 1 Architecture
Tutors: Henry Beech Mole, Salvator-John A. Liotta and Martin Tubiana
Email: remi.ojumu[at]parisarch.fr

Misandriarchy by Laura Tissen

"This project envisions an alternative in which the original Me Too movement has culminated into an extreme feminism movement.

"This extremist political revolution created by this movement's leaders, the so-called Matrons, evokes the spectre of fascism with a reimagining of the Speer Plan for Berlin as an urban template for a misandrist Paris.

"This creates a 'woman-only' ceremonial axis through the city, centred within a new political and administrative building, the Matron' Palace."

Student: Laura Tissen
Course: Year 1 Architecture
Tutors: Henry Beech Mole, Salvator-John A. Liotta and Martin Tubiana
Email: laura.tissen[at]parisarch.fr

After the Party, A Long-Term Climate Parliament by Helmi Mhiri

"An alternative history where the development of time-travel has allowed the creation of a long-term climate parliament in 1994.

"As the world passed the 1.5 degree warming limit agreed in the Paris Climate Accord sometime in 2023, clarity dawned that we would have to return to the past to prevent climate catastrophe.

"To overcome the short-termism of five-yearly parliamentary cycles, this long-term climate parliament of 40-year sessions reworks failed democratic structures through gamification, to give us the politicians we need to solve this crisis."

Student: Helmi Mhiri
Course: Year 1 Architecture
Tutors: Henry Beech Mole, Salvator-John A. Liotta and Martin Tubiana
Email: helmi.mhiri[at]parisarch.fr

Partnership content

This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and Paris School of Architecture. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.