A bunch of new folks on the Architecture/Landscape Architecture/Urban Planning Starter Pack this week, including:
@jgmoore.bsky.social @jmfowl.bsky.social @maggiehansen.bsky.social @lzcamuti.bsky.social @katetotheparty.bsky.social and @ruthpenberthy.bsky.social
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Hello Bluesky peeps! For those of you looking for scholarship and design on architecture and the built, imagined and destroyed environment - the Journal of Architectural Education is here! Give us a follow - good things coming at this space!
@thejaeonline.bsky.social
The Spring 2025 Journal of Architectural Education call is up - theme edited by the University of Michigan’s McLain Clutter (JAE’s brilliant executive editor) + Mireille Rodier! Titled “Degrowth, Low-Tech and Alternative Hedonism.” deadline is July 14. Read the CFP for Vol. 80/1 at www.jaeonline.org
A stilt-walker wearing a giant hoop skirt plays bagpipes during a standoff with police on the M41 motorway on July 13, 1996.
Reclaim the Streets takes the M41 motorway on July 13, 1996, with a stilt-walker opening up space for people to dance to rave beats.
Under the skirts of the performer, drowned out by the thumping bass frequencies, anti-roads activists used a jackhammer to tear up the asphalt during the standoff.
We're publishing brief observations on repair from dozens of leading public scholars, practitioners, and thinkers (with yet more to come!). Check out "Field Notes: Repair" on our website: placesjournal.org/series/field-notes-repair/.
I’m in Dwell this week, chatting with Anjulie Rao re: climate adaptation, the Army Corps, and why the US is so deeply committed to a development model that places people in high risk areas.
www.dwell.com/article/why-...
Gracias por leerlo Landa!
el otro es que me ha emocionado mucho que la participación de @i-santoyoorozco.bsky.social haga referencia a la calle de ciudad de méxico donde viví: artículo 123.
📣 My book Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Public Interior is out and thanks to the good people at
@uminnpress.bsky.social I have a promotional code to share! Happy to conspire for events, talk to your students, or put together a panel.
I made a starter pack for all of the design and spatial practitioners I've found on here. Please share and add anyone I'm missing!
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Field Notes: Repair
A new survey series in Places, prepared in the months leading up to the U.S. election, in which 100 scholars, designers, planners & activists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance and care.
Here's the first installment. Lots more to come.
Professor of literature @bardcollege.bsky.social Peter L'Official unearths the ambitious — and unrealized — work of architect/writer W. Joseph Black, who in the 1970s proposed building a sprawling Black cultural center in Harlem. L'Official links Black's work to the novels of Colson Whitehead. /2
The Biden Administration is suspending two dozen laws to push the border wall through critical wildlife refuges in the Río Grande Valley. These spaces are among the last green spaces in these communities. This is an astronomical violence to these communities. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Today, you can order four free COVID tests.
Go here: www.covid.gov/tests
Pass it on.
Exciting things are on the horizon for October in London's art scene. Barbican is hosting RE/SISTERS: an "exhibition exploring the relationship between gender and ecology, highlighting the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet" www.barbican.org.uk/ReSisters
…today S19, in 1985 & again in 2017, Mexico City experienced some of the most difficult earthquakes in recent history. I only experienced 1985, as a tiny person, but the sensory memory is somehow still present. From 2017, there are still about 32% of victims experiencing homelessness.
Hello multispecies scholars!
I compiled a list of multispecies ethnography/history books last year. Here: drive.google.com/file/d/1CYHM...
Updating it for my #PoliticalAnimals class. Are there any interesting books that came out recently or that I had forgotten to include?
Screenshot of the Archive of Mexican Arxhitects website hosted at UNAM.The image presents 36 profiles; only 1 represents a woman (Marta Elema Campos Newman).
With so many women and non-binary architectural talent in Mexico, it is still hard to see how one of the central archives of Mexican architecture continues to recognize the tradition.
I know much is amid changes, but I cannot wait for this archive to reflect that.
Last September we rethought our print publication. Over the last year, we have been working with our digital director,
@s3ththompson.bsky.social, to translate the sensibility of our print issue to the web.
Today, that new website is now live online.
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The lovely Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez's team have now launched an open-access edition of Crip Authorship:
Disability as Method. There is a speculative chapter on captioning work in there! I'm proud of this piece! opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...
For those creating syllabi on environmental/climate justice, we have a database centering Black, Indigenous, Asian, and/or Latinx authors! Also, if you have new articles to add to the database let me know! The lab is updating the syllabus this week. https://www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus
"The Social Ideology of the Motorcar", by André Gorz in Le Sauvage, 1973. Still as relevant as ever. unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...
Pretty remarkable syllabus on the history of sex work tech from (natch) Hacking/Hustling
"Trains, Texts, & Tits: Sex Work, Technology, and Movement"
Green wall map of natural gas production in Chile.
Diorama of coal extraction
Cheerfully red display of petroleum products such as plastic phone, red boots, playmobil figures, a vinyl record
Entrance to the "sala de Carbon" - the carbon (here meaning coal) room. Black image of coal, color screen showing pale hands with coal, all inset into a wood slat display
Penguins are all well and good, but don't let them lure you into thinking Tierra del Fuego is an environmental paradise. It has long served as a source for gas and petrol. The Salesian museum in Punta Arenas celebrates this, with dioramas and everything.
For all those interested in labor and organizing among architects, the Architecture Lobby, which has been trying to improve working conditions for architects, just turned ten, and @anjulierao.bsky.social wrote a reported history of how it is going. We would recommend.
nyra.nyc/articles/tun...
