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Archifutures

Volume 6: Agency, A field guide to reclaiming the future of architecture

Edited by Sophie Lovell and George Kafka, &  beyond collective


Now is not a time for metaphorical sticking  plasters or vanity projects, it is a time for change and a time for action.

Archifutures Volume 6: Agency, A field guide to  reclaiming the future of architecture is a call to action for architects, urbanists and designers. With essays, interviews, projects and original works by young practitioners and more established figures alike, this sixth volume in the Archifutures series for the Future Architecture platform is the most activist to date.

The mandate of architects and urbanists today goes way beyond designing buildings, it includes changing behaviour, 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 of Archifutures, 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.

It is sometimes hard to have hope in the face of the enormous problems the world is currently facing, but the projects and practices featured in this book indicate that we already have the ideas and skills to make the necessary changes – but the means for achieving them are unevenly distributed. These projects 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: 45°, Architects Climate Action Network, Thomas Aquilina, Architekturos Fondas, ateliermob, BC Architects and Studies[BE], 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, Recetas Urbanas, Marie-Louise Richards, Unfolding Pavilion, Un-war Space Lab, Marina Otero Verzier.

 

Designed by Diana Portela &beyond collective

Published by dpr-barcelona, Autumn 2020

ISBN: 978-84-120390-8-5


Archifutures  Volume 6: Agency. Book Launch

Where: Future Architecture Lounge Room

When: Friday November 20th, 2020 | 18:00-19:00 CET


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