June 2019
New Models Module 1: Imagining Collapse
As part of the three-year Research Initiative, Blockchains & Cultural Padlocks, 221A presents the workshop New Models Module 1: Imagining Collapse developed by Daniel Keller, and his network from the New Models community. New Models is a pro-complexity media node for art, politics, tech and pop culture. New Models exists across platforms with all channels running through their aggregator https://newmodels.io, and features a podcast hosted by Daniel Keller, Caroline Busta, and @LILINTERNET. Through a multimedia presentation and lecture, a Q&A, and interactive exercises we…
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Architects for Social Housing – For A Socialist Architecture Under Capitalism: The Social
Please join 221A Fellows, Architects for Social Housing (ASH), for a workshop on the social implications and social development strategies that are born from the global housing crisis. This workshop is the first in a series of four, which take place Friday afternoons from July 19 to August 9, 2019. Co-developed with Am Johal, Director of SFU’s Vancity Office for Community Engagement, this first workshop asks the questions: Why is an ‘ethical’ architecture inadequate as a model of practice? Who are…
Find out more »Architects for Social Housing – For A Socialist Architecture Under Capitalism: The Environmental
Please join 221A Fellows, Architects for Social Housing (ASH), for a workshop on the environmental implications and social development strategies that are born from the global housing crisis. This workshop is the second in a series of four, which take place Friday afternoons from July 19 to August 9, 2019. The second workshop, “The Environmental”, is co-developed and hosted with Daniel Roehr, Landscape Architect and Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, to ask…
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Screening and Social with Architects for Social Housing
Please join 221A in thanking Architects for Social Housing (ASH) for their work in Vancouver as part of their Research Fellowship. Over the past four weeks, ASH has developed a manuscript for a forthcoming book For A Socialist Architecture and hosted four public workshops that have asked urgent questions about the Social, Environmental, Economic and Political issues that are shared by cities on the spear’s edge of the international housing crisis. Following the fourth and final workshop on the Political (Aug…
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