The Unmentionables Symposium is returning to Los Angeles to explore rarely mentioned critical ideas in spatial practice and theory. Following the inaugural symposium in April 2017, the second iteration provokes creators and scholars to reconsider the symposium format itself. As a space and event, the 2019 Unmentionables Symposium will question the meaning of performance and its application to design and the built form.

The second Unmentionables Symposium will be held at Woodbury University Hollywood Outpost (WUHO Gallery) in Hollywood, April 6, 2019. The symposium is organized by the Interior Architecture Department at Woodbury School of Architecture. Unmentionables brings together a broad range of notable thinkers and designers drawn from architecture, film, art, philosophy, and interior design. Keynote speakers this year include Jane Rendell, Director of Architectural History and Theory, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and Joel Sanders, Principal of JSA and Director of the M.Arch II Program at Yale School of Architecture.

The full list of speakers includes:

Lauren Amador, Principal, Amador Architecture
Amy Campos, Associate Professor and Chair of Interior Design, California College of the Arts
Annie Coggan, Adjunct Associate Professor of Interior Design, Pratt Institute
Matthew Gillis, Principal, G!LL!S; Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Interior Architecture, Woodbury University
Parsa Rezaee, MArch 1 Candidate, Woodbury University
Jennifer Meakins, Adjunct Faculty Adjunct Professor of Interior Architecture, Woodbury University, California Polytechnic State University Pomona
Emily Pellicano, Assistant Professor, Marywood University School of Architecture
Bryony Roberts, Founder, Bryony Roberts Studio; Assistant Professor, Columbia GSAPP
Cathrine Veikos, Professor of Architecture, California College of the Arts
Deborah Schneiderman, Principal/Founder, deSc, Professor of Interior Design, Pratt Institute
Igor Siddiqui, Associate Professor and Program Director of Interior Design, The University of Texas at Austin
Rossen Ventzislavov, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Woodbury University 

The Unmentionables symposium is supported by the work of its advisory board: Lois Weinthal, Chair of Interior Design at Ryerson School of Interior Design; Frank Clementi, principal of Rios Clementi Hale and a transdisciplinary design educator; Rossen Ventzislavov, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Woodbury University; Mimi Zeiger, critic, editor, and curator; Raymund Ryan, curator at Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art; and Gloria Gerace, renowned museum and cultural consultant.

Symposium organizers include Maria Kobalyan, Christoph Korner, Chair of Interior Architecture, and faculty members Annie Chu, FAIA IIDA and Heather Peterson.