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The Academia Working Group of The Architecture Lobby ran a Summer 2022 workshop as part of its annual Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School. The ABC 2022 workshop built on the 2021 session, which focused on Capitalism, Labor, and Collectives, by concentrating on studio educational practices.
As the pedagogical setting in which most of an architecture student’s and teacher’s time and resources are focused, studio was explored as a key site in which to test how organizing and action for change can become foundational in architectural practice and posit other roles for the architect beyond the ‘designer.’ As a beginning prompt, the ABC asked: how do we understand studio to support and encourage activist organization? How might design be taught in ways that do not perpetuate and reproduce capitalist exploitation?
We coordinated a workshop to call forth action-based approaches to changing architecture education by bringing together students, educators, practitioners, constructors – anyone interested in rethinking the architectural studio across different settings and scales. This workshop acted as an open platform to build a cohort committed to the present and future work necessary for change in “design” education/practice. Any person who is reconsidering or wants to reconsider what studio means and how it can create relevant architectural workers with the skills to instigate, organize, and work for change, was encouraged to participate in, contribute to, or lead these virtual conversations.
These virtual sessions and their resources can be accessed by registering here: https://lu.ma/2022abcschool
The 2022 session of T-A-L ABC School, focusing on “studio”, was organised as a workshop where concerned participants developed strategies for replacing traditional studio with empowering models for effecting change in the built environment. Our goal was to a) disseminate revised studio practices in existing schools and/or governing institutions, and b) create a handbook for changing studio pedagogy.
The 2023 session of T-A-L ABC School is currently in the works - if you would like to be involved in its conceptualization and organization, please contact us at abc@architecture-lobby.org or sign up as a member of the architecture lobby here: http://architecture-lobby.org/get-involved/
The Academia Working Group of The Architecture Lobby ran a Summer 2022 workshop as part of its annual Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School. The ABC 2022 workshop built on the 2021 session, which focused on Capitalism, Labor, and Collectives, by concentrating on studio educational practices.
As the pedagogical setting in which most of an architecture student’s and teacher’s time and resources are focused, studio was explored as a key site in which to test how organizing and action for change can become foundational in architectural practice and posit other roles for the architect beyond the ‘designer.’ As a beginning prompt, the ABC asked: how do we understand studio to support and encourage activist organization? How might design be taught in ways that do not perpetuate and reproduce capitalist exploitation?
We coordinated a workshop to call forth action-based approaches to changing architecture education by bringing together students, educators, practitioners, constructors – anyone interested in rethinking the architectural studio across different settings and scales. This workshop acted as an open platform to build a cohort committed to the present and future work necessary for change in “design” education/practice. Any person who is reconsidering or wants to reconsider what studio means and how it can create relevant architectural workers with the skills to instigate, organize, and work for change, was encouraged to participate in, contribute to, or lead these virtual conversations.
These virtual sessions and their resources can be accessed by registering here: https://lu.ma/2022abcschool
The 2022 session of T-A-L ABC School, focusing on “studio”, was organised as a workshop where concerned participants developed strategies for replacing traditional studio with empowering models for effecting change in the built environment. Our goal was to a) disseminate revised studio practices in existing schools and/or governing institutions, and b) create a handbook for changing studio pedagogy.
The 2023 session of T-A-L ABC School is currently in the works - if you would like to be involved in its conceptualization and organization, please contact us at abc@architecture-lobby.org or sign up as a member of the architecture lobby here: http://architecture-lobby.org/get-involved/
The Academia Working Group of The Architecture Lobby ran a Summer 2022 workshop as part of its annual Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School. The ABC 2022 workshop built on the 2021 session, which focused on Capitalism, Labor, and Collectives, by concentrating on studio educational practices.
As the pedagogical setting in which most of an architecture student’s and teacher’s time and resources are focused, studio was explored as a key site in which to test how organizing and action for change can become foundational in architectural practice and posit other roles for the architect beyond the ‘designer.’ As a beginning prompt, the ABC asked: how do we understand studio to support and encourage activist organization? How might design be taught in ways that do not perpetuate and reproduce capitalist exploitation?
We coordinated a workshop to call forth action-based approaches to changing architecture education by bringing together students, educators, practitioners, constructors – anyone interested in rethinking the architectural studio across different settings and scales. This workshop acted as an open platform to build a cohort committed to the present and future work necessary for change in “design” education/practice. Any person who is reconsidering or wants to reconsider what studio means and how it can create relevant architectural workers with the skills to instigate, organize, and work for change, was encouraged to participate in, contribute to, or lead these virtual conversations.
These virtual sessions and their resources can be accessed by registering here: https://lu.ma/2022abcschool
The 2022 session of T-A-L ABC School, focusing on “studio”, was organised as a workshop where concerned participants developed strategies for replacing traditional studio with empowering models for effecting change in the built environment. Our goal was to a) disseminate revised studio practices in existing schools and/or governing institutions, and b) create a handbook for changing studio pedagogy.
The 2023 session of T-A-L ABC School is currently in the works - if you would like to be involved in its conceptualization and organization, please contact us at abc@architecture-lobby.org or sign up as a member of the architecture lobby here: http://architecture-lobby.org/get-involved/
ORGANISING FOR GLOBAL CHANGE
We call for participants and contributors to join together with the ABC School 2023 to answer the complex problem of how to capture, share, redeploy, and evolve liberatory practices across different scales, contexts and cultures from around the world.
We don’t know what, but we do know how. Or, maybe we know what, but we don’t know how. Whatever it is—finished or not, polished or messy—we know we want to gather to figure it out together, we embrace works in progress. The 2023 online gathering of the Architecture Beyond Capitalism ABC School invites ideas for building connections and making positive change in architecture practice and education.
Want to join this year's school? Subscribe at https://lu.ma/abcschool2023
ABC School 2023 embraces dreamers and pragmatists alike. We welcome those with interests in and ideas for—however small, however fantastical—working out what it means to learn and practice architecture more collectively, more ethically and more sustainably through a lens of Future Belonging, a concept that emphasizes collective action and speculative futurism.
Future Belonging holds space to:
This space is free, inclusive, supportive and open to all: students, educators, practitioners, constructors, and anyone interested in or passionate about affecting change. We invite individuals and collectives working to affect change in spatial production; individuals and collectives working with people, groups, communities or organisations to bring about an equitable tomorrow; individuals or collectives working with new organizational techniques for leveraging influence. We would like to learn from the experiences of others meeting this challenge, and foster a space to support those just starting out.
This year’s conference aims to radically diversify the forms of participation and contribution. We invite concepts and proposals for poster/paper presentations, discussion groups, forums, workshops, activities, collective action, tutorials, open mics etc. deliverable online, in the format of your choice. Zoom sessions should be 30 to 120 minutes in length. Participants are also invited to join the ABC team to help organise the conference over the coming months and/or build the repository. The ABC organising team will help participants produce and administer their content, and aim to identify and encourage collaborative opportunities between contributors.
ABC School is the annual gathering of the Architecture Lobby’s Academia Working Group. In the 2021 session, we worked to understand the terrain in which we are operating, the contemporary ecological and social crises and of architecture’s roles and responsibilities within. In the 2022 session, we homed in on the architecture studio as the locus of architecture culture, the scale at which first differences might be made. In 2023, we seek to stitch the daunting and huge with the nuts and bolts of the immediate and comprehensible. We hope to be open about our insecurities in working in this space, embrace our naivety, accept that we can’t solve all problems, but that we can try, together, to imagine what Future Belonging might mean.
ORGANISING FOR GLOBAL CHANGE
We call for participants and contributors to join together with the ABC School 2023 to answer the complex problem of how to capture, share, redeploy, and evolve liberatory practices across different scales, contexts and cultures from around the world.
We don’t know what, but we do know how. Or, maybe we know what, but we don’t know how. Whatever it is—finished or not, polished or messy—we know we want to gather to figure it out together, we embrace works in progress. The 2023 online gathering of the Architecture Beyond Capitalism ABC School invites ideas for building connections and making positive change in architecture practice and education.
Want to join this year's school? Subscribe at https://lu.ma/abcschool2023
ABC School 2023 embraces dreamers and pragmatists alike. We welcome those with interests in and ideas for—however small, however fantastical—working out what it means to learn and practice architecture more collectively, more ethically and more sustainably through a lens of Future Belonging, a concept that emphasizes collective action and speculative futurism.
Future Belonging holds space to:
This space is free, inclusive, supportive and open to all: students, educators, practitioners, constructors, and anyone interested in or passionate about affecting change. We invite individuals and collectives working to affect change in spatial production; individuals and collectives working with people, groups, communities or organisations to bring about an equitable tomorrow; individuals or collectives working with new organizational techniques for leveraging influence. We would like to learn from the experiences of others meeting this challenge, and foster a space to support those just starting out.
This year’s conference aims to radically diversify the forms of participation and contribution. We invite concepts and proposals for poster/paper presentations, discussion groups, forums, workshops, activities, collective action, tutorials, open mics etc. deliverable online, in the format of your choice. Zoom sessions should be 30 to 120 minutes in length. Participants are also invited to join the ABC team to help organise the conference over the coming months and/or build the repository. The ABC organising team will help participants produce and administer their content, and aim to identify and encourage collaborative opportunities between contributors.
ABC School is the annual gathering of the Architecture Lobby’s Academia Working Group. In the 2021 session, we worked to understand the terrain in which we are operating, the contemporary ecological and social crises and of architecture’s roles and responsibilities within. In the 2022 session, we homed in on the architecture studio as the locus of architecture culture, the scale at which first differences might be made. In 2023, we seek to stitch the daunting and huge with the nuts and bolts of the immediate and comprehensible. We hope to be open about our insecurities in working in this space, embrace our naivety, accept that we can’t solve all problems, but that we can try, together, to imagine what Future Belonging might mean.
July 18-23 2022— ABC 2022 hosted
August 2022 onwards — Organization for 2023 session begins
Summer 2023 — next iteration of ABC School
All events of the 2022 session were held the week of July 18-23. Please follow this link for the 2022 Schedule.
Virtual
ABC School 2022 was a non-heirarchical space for knowledge exchange - believing that all attendees have expertise to bring to each conversation. In this way the sessions were curated around the interests, capacity and questions of the registered participants. The format for the sessions, as well as their content, was open and could be developed in collaboration with the organizational team. Each role was open to anyone, at any stage in their life, who is interested in reconsidering what studio means.
Participation in this year’s workshop required the selection between these three roles:
Facilitators and organizers were also be registered as participants. Once the registration closed the organization committee curated the schedule and curriculum and released it publicly.
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