isolation

{ isolation }   To be isolated is to be secluded. To be cut off from surroundings or contexts. Over the course of the last year, many of us have been separated…

STOCKHOLM
The Island of Skeppsholmen

Geographies of isolation The Island of Skeppsholmen   Linnea Fröjd, Mikaela Karlsson Stockholm is built upon islands. Sweden’s capital and most populous urban area is spread out across fourteen islands where Lake…

assemblage

{ assemblage }   Keywords: carving, making space, coming together, gathering, to assemble, safety vs security “There is no space independent of subjects,” wrote Jakob von Uexküll in his volume A Foray…

STOCKHOLM
International Student House

The Multidirectional Path of Building a Safe Space International Student House   Steffie De Gaetano, Alice Pontiggia, Silvia Susanna Being non-Swedish short-term students, both in terms of the one-week-a-month structure of the classes and…

Valentina Bonizzi

Digging into archives and communities, Valentina Bonizzi’s work highlights issues of social justice in relation to the politics of time in specific contexts. She has developed her work and research with communities…

narration

{ narration }   Dionisio is ten years old and he goes every day to Gjon Buzuku school in Tirana. The school is located in an area called Porcelain in the north…

TIRANA
Lyceum Artistik

The school at night Lyceum Artistik   Valentina Bonizzi In January 2021 a performance was announced to happen at the courtyard to the Lyceum Artistik in Tirana, Albania. The school was established…

Sue Jeong Ka

Sue Jeong Ka’s work seeks to meet communal needs. From commemorations of female Asian immigrants from the 19th century, to a trilingual community newspaper and a piece assisting queer and immigrant homeless…

boundaries

{ boundaries of power }   What you learn in architecture school is the act of making. Rarely is it fully acknowledged that the making of something new is accompanied by the…

FROM NYC TO ONLINE
Sites for protest

In Our Backyard: Building Restorative Practice, Not Cages Sites for protest   Sue Jeong Ka “Modern facilities would replace the outdated jails of today. These new facilities would be integrated into the…