resistance
{ collective resistance } The meaning of resistance – as a collective process – relies upon the active engagement of a local community, through the combination of individual actions, such as…
listening
{ listening } Listening, in a deep, embodied sense, is not about objects, but about subjectivities. It is about collecting stories of lived experience. Stories of here and elsewhere. Stories of…
catalyst
{ catalyst } Methodologies: -Mirroring / learning / displacing -Reimagining -Collective desires -Self-confession -Social device -Situated knowledge A catalyst is an informal and temporary action used to make structures of power…
collect*
{ collect* } Often, when something new is erected in a neighbourhood, we think: “I can remember that there was something here before, but now I can’t remember what.” Within contexts…
żywicowanie
{ żywicowanie } “A sweaty concept might come out of a bodily experience that is trying. The task is to stay with the difficulty, to keep exploring and exposing this difficulty.”…
to guest
{ to guest } A list of words/concepts attempting “to identify marginality ... as the site of radical possibility, a space of resistance.” (bell hooks, Choosing the margin as a space…
al hogra (الحكرة)
{ al hogra (الحكرة) } Widely used in North-African societies, this word comes originally from the Arabic noun “Ihtiqaar” (إحتقار), meaning contempt. In the Maghrebi dialects spoken in Morocco, Algeria and…
diy
{ DIY } The do-it-yourself (DIY) ethic promotes the idea that anyone is capable of performing a variety of tasks rather than relying on paid specialists. It requires that the adherent…
threshold
{ threshold } A threshold as an archetypical form is a passage, a space that connects by separating and vice versa. For example, we say that we reach or overcome a…
heterotopia
{ heterotopian view } Foucault states that space is the relation among sites, and that sites can be analysed through their relations. There are, however, sites that do not allow themselves…