As you face towards the front entrance of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, and imagine that you keep walking and walking in a straight line, you will cross paths with the AA Hooke Park campus, the Amazon delta on the other side of the ocean, Chile, New Zealand, the Australian outback, the Philippines, China, Mongolia, Russia, and all the way back here to Bedford Square again. The landscapes along this line from around the planet are projected onto a single World, with the flowers from Hooke Park sweeping across its land. Around the World is where all our students are right now.

The large tableau, displayed in front of the AA buildings in July is an alternative group graduation image which we normally take on the steps of our home at No. 36 Bedford Square. This collective graduation image brings together 379 graduating students from across the AA Experimental, Diploma and Post-Graduate programmes. In the tableau, they are together, if not physically yet, roaming around the World. None of us quite imagined that this would be what 2020 looks like. But the World will return, now with all of the AA graduates out there to make a difference, where they are needed like never before. Until we meet again elsewhere.

The graduation tableau has been designed by John Ng, First Year Tutor. The was displayed on the AA buildings from 3–31 July.

Locations

50°47'26.67"N2°40'W

0°36'0.00"N 50°W

28°34'48.00"S 70°W

46°34'41.92"S 170°E

17°44'10.29"S 140°E

0°19'31.97"S 130°E

15°10'48.00"N 120°E

38°43'12.00"N 100°E

45°57'36.00"N 90°E

For more information on the Virtual Graduation Ceremony taking place on 24 July visit Graduation Ceremony 2020