Now is not a time for metaphorical sticking plasters or vanity projects, it is a time for change and a time for action.
The mandate of architects and urbanists today goes way beyond designing buildings, it includes changing behavior, influencing and impacting policy, and building bottom-up agency with new understandings of value, justice, and cultural production. This task is best achieved by sharing not just strategies but also practice – completely openly and freely. This sixth volume in the Archifutures series for the Future Architecture platform, therefore, focuses on emerging narratives and strategies that can help architects adapt their practice towards more effective agency in order to meet the greater, more universal tasks that are upon all of humankind. The projects featured here show ways forward in addressing ecological destruction, racial injustice, housing inequality, and landscapes of conflict. They point to new modes of design practice, rethinking what it means to be “an architect” in a world of spatial injustice.
Contributors include: 45°, Architects Climate Action Network, Thomas Aquilina, Architekturos Fondas, ateliermob, BC Architects and Studies[BE], Miguel Braceli, Coloco, Critical Practice, Dark Matter Labs, Arturo Franco & Ana Román, Institute for Linear Research, Will Jennings, Constantinos Marcou, Mies. TV, Office of Human Resources, Recetas Urbanas, Jason Rhys Parry, Point Supreme, Proyecto Colectivo, Marie-Louise Richards, Unfolding Pavilion, Un-war Space Lab, Marina Otero Verzier.
Edited by George Kafka and Sophie Lovell.
Design by Diana Portela.
Title: Archifutures. Volume 6: Agency. A Field Guide to Reclaiming the Future of Architecture.
Editors: George Kafka, Sophie Lovell — &beyond collective
Language: English
Cover: Softcover with flaps
Size: 17 x 23 cms
Number of pages: 218
Images: Color
Date: October 2020
ISBN: 978-84-120390-8-5
Publisher: dpr-barcelona
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A Critical View
Five years of Future Architecture platform
Interview with Matevž Čelik
By Sophie Lovell
Turning the Tables
Architecture after architecture
By Marina Otero Verzier
Illustrations by Janar Siniloo
Agro Commune
Challenging neo-colonial exploitation with utopian realism
By Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee, Office of Human Resources
35 Meridians of Radical Rituals
On revolutionising the ways we manage and envision our communal space
By Gian Maria Socci and Alkistis Thomidou, 45º
The Institute for Linear Research
Exploring contemporary landscapes through walking a line
By Luis Hilti and Matilde Igual Capdevila
An Anticipatory Theory of Ruin Ecology
Building for the new natives of an altered nature
By Jason Rhys Parry
Building Narratives
Story-making for accessibility and empowerment
A conversation between Justinas Dūdėnas, Andrius Ropolas, Paula Brücke and Arian Lehner
Learning To See Through Walls
Addressing race and space with the New Architecture Writers
Interview with Thomas Aquilina
By George Kafka