'Other Actors' is a new, three-channel film piece by Stanley Picker Fellow Ilona Sagar, exploring the links between bodies and buildings, health and architecture through the lens of the Paimio Sanatorium in Finland. Designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto and completed between 1929 and 1933, the sanatorium conceived as an “instrument for healing”, designed not for the verticality of the healthy body but for the horizontal perspective of the sick.

'Other Actors' was informed by collaboration with Aalto University School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as the Tuberculosis Research Group at Leicester University and Imperial College London, addressing an urgent contemporary perspective on a disease often thought to be a relic of the past.

Under Construction is an evolving collaborative architecture project, under construction at the Stanley Picker Gallery throughout September – December 2024. The exhibition surveys more than a decade of ambitious live-build projects guided by architect Takeshi Hayatsu, working with students and a growing cohort of participants and community partners (including The Community Brain, Citizen Zoo, 121 Collective and more). Throughout the exhibition an entirely new live build will take place at the gallery developed with the 2024-25 cohort of Unit 5 MArch students from the Department of Architecture & Landscape at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London. This will include a temporary rammed earth Shrine outside the entrance and a Sauna on the Gallery’s riverside terrace.