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Saturday, June 11 2022

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A large-scale painting for British Vogue – proposing a radical 'shake-up' of the metropolis in both diagrammatic and pictorial terms – a reinvention of open spaces, rail, road and water networks, air routes and borough configurations – vivid brushstrokes 'animating' new proposals, now possibilities, new experiments in urbanism.

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Theme: ACT
longonfestivalofarchitecture.org

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POA is a feminist, queer, anti-capitalist social support network and platform offering space (physical and digital) for engaging in politics of care, resource sharing and knowledge production. We centre LGBTQI+, SWANAs, migrants and POCs who are navigating their identities and finding community through mutual interdependence and owning our narratives.

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POA is a feminist, queer, anti-capitalist social support network and platform offering space (physical and digital) for engaging in politics of care, resource sharing and knowledge production. We centre LGBTQI+, SWANAs, migrants and POCs who are navigating their identities and finding community through mutual interdependence and owning our narratives.

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What doors and walls do you come up against in the city? 

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What doors and walls do you come up against in the city? 

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Doors and walls are not mere metaphors. They are hard materials we can be hit by. when we are hit by something we become conscious of something.

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'Intended functionality' can mean who something is for, not just what something is for.

This means that: something can be used by those for which it was not intended.

Queer use: when something is used by those for whom it was intended.

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MANIFESTOS: Architecture for a New Generation
"What does the future of the city look like for the next generation of Londoners?"

The 2022 edition will showcase the radical manifestos of emerging voices that are expanding the parameters of what architecture can be, who London is for and what its future holds.

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maps were rarely, if ever, simple tools used for getting from place to place.” Instead, they were often about cutting up the world, sometimes places not even seen by the cartographers, into claims

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/rnjqj6mggrx6ans/Vulnerability%20as%20a%20political%20language.pdf?dl=0

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A Nolli Map is a two-dimensional plan drawing used to understand and document the accessibility and flow of space within a city. The first Nolli ever was drawn by the Italian architect from where the map derives its name from, Giovanni Battista Nolli.

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I want to start my consideration of queer use by attending to uses of queer. Queer: a word with a history; a word that has been flung like a stone; picked up and hurled at us, a word we can claim for us. Queer: odd, strange, unseemly, disturbed, disturbing.

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Sara Ahmed - Uses of Use – Diversity, Utility and the University

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OUR BUILDING IS A VERB

with walls that lean
and sway to guide you,
not keep you out.

Ceilings offer shelter,
not limitations
to collective growth.

Doors and windows
let nature and community in,
not shut us out.

We build
infrastructures of care
and frameworks of cooperation -
not oppression, prejudice,
competition and control.

Program is political,
access is the foundation,
empathy is the groundwork.

This living structure
evades capture, finality,
and the illusion
of certitude.

The future
is fluid,
immediate,
and coalescing
each day before our eyes -
indeed, through them.

As
we
hurtle
faster
and
farther
into
the
ever-crushing
confines
of
the
future,

S                          P                         A                          C                          E

S                          P                         A                          C                          E

is resistance

CONSTRUCTION IS NEVER COMPLETE