The Photographers’ Institute and the Conceptualisation of ‘New Vision’ Part 1 Project 2025 Elena Delli Colli University of Westminster London | UK The architectural manifesto of the Institute extends a century from Moholy Nagy’s theorems concerning ‘New Vision’, read against Walter Benjamin’s ideas of ‘aura’ and the ‘phenomenon of distance’. The architectural manifesto celebrates and conceptualises these theoretical readings to support and extend existing practices of knowledge dissemination. Penetrating the roofline of the British Library, the proposal conceptualises and translates these readings into tactile experiences through a device that is designed be viewed and inhabited, to create multiple definitions of ’aura’. The focus on texture and form celebrates the dissemination of knowledge through its multi-sensory tangible and intangible spatial experiences. Ideas of sustainability are articulated through the processes of making, dismantling and reconstructing the model, demonstrating ideas of modularity and re-enforcing the necessity for buildings to adapt efficiently.Most importantly the architecture contributes to the discourse of cultural sustainability by proposing an alternative educational institution powered by the language of photography, standing in contrast with the traditional one of the British Library. The dematerialisation of established viewpoints and acknowledging the creation of the aura of architecture with the “New Vision” device, invites viewers in 2025 and beyond, to open new channels of interpretation and perception that goes beyond how our senses have been conditioned. Tutor(s)