The Anthropocene

Recording intersections between architecture, geology and politics

 
The Funambulist - Podcast

Dedicated the politics of space and bodies 

 
BLDG BLOG

Exploring topics related to architecture and the built environment through a lens of technology, literature, crime, history, archaeology, acoustics, science fiction, subterranean space, warfare, the planetary sciences, and much more.

BLANK SPACE

Blank space is an office for thought provocation, challenging architecture to rethink its role in society by speaking about things we can all relate to.

 
DRAWING ARCHITECTURE

A collection of architectural drawings (2011-2016)

 
bureau spectator

Imagining other worlds and engaging the design of architecture through telling stories.

 
DAAR

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency

 
design with company
Dnkmn

Exploring the territory between the architectural and the literary, real and unreal, mundane and fantastic.

 

M aterial Adaptation, Object Kinematics and Environmental Simulation for Architecture --

 

El Anatsui

“THE LINK BETWEEN AFRICA, EUROPE, AND AMERICA IS VERY MUCH PART OF WHAT IS BEHIND MY WORK WITH BOTTLE CAPS”

Factory Fifteen

A multi-disciplinary design-led approach to film making and immersive technologies.

Fake Industries Architectural Agonism

The world is full of architecture, more or less interesting; we do not wish to add any more.

Forensic Architecture
Smoking Dogs Films
Matilde Cassani

Analysing violations of human rights and international humanitarian law (IHL) in urban, media-rich environments requires modelling dynamic events as they unfold in space and time, creating navigable 3D models of sites of conflict and the creation of animations and interactive cartographies on the urban or architectural scale.

 

Diverse stories from marginalised and underrepresented communities to the mainstream, Smoking Dogs Films has built a reputation for delivering thought provoking, stylised and captivating work to a variety of mediums.

 

Moving between the border of architecture, installation and event design.

 
Moon Hoon
Olalekan Jeyifous
Philip Beesley

Moon hoon is known for his playful and distinctive style of design, which fuses art and architecture. some of the architect's work includes projects that resemble hairdryers, owls, and lollipops.

 
Point Supreme Architects

Based in Athens Points Supreme’s work integrates research, architecture, urbanism, landscape and urban design.

 
UKNOWN FIELDS DIVISION

We are both visionaries and reporters, part documentarian and part science fiction soothsayers as the otherworldly sites we encounter afford us a distanced viewpoint from which to survey the consequences of emerging environmental and technological scenarios.

 
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
 
Lawrence Abu Hamdan

A contemporary artist based in Beirut. His work looks into the political effects of listening, using various kinds of audio to explore its effects on human rights and law. Because of his work with sound, Abu Hamdan has testified as an expert witness in asylum hearings in the United Kingdom

 
Brittle Paper

An online literary magazine styled as an "African literary blog" published weekly in the English language. Its focus is on "build a vibrant African literary scene."

 
Cities under Surveillance (UTS)

Three Year Long Masters Architectural Design Studio School of Architecture University of Technology SydneyLed by Endriana Audisho & Tova Lubinsky

 
Kathryn Yusoff

Kathryn Yusoff examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery.

 
Chimurenga (Who No Know Go Know)

A publication of arts, culture and politics from and about Africa and its diasporas. (Chimurenga is a Shona word that loosely translates as "liberation struggle") and the content capture the connection between African cultures and politics on the continent and beyond.

Experimenting with the application of various computer software in the creation of art, design and architecture.

 
Space Caviar

We use built work, exhibitions, publishing, writing and film to investigate and document contemporary modes of habitation and the spatialisation of social and political practice. 

 
WAI THINK TANK

WAI focuses on the understanding and execution of Architecture from a panoramic approach. WAI aims to contribute to the collective intelligence of architecture by means of intelligent buildings and master plans, groundbreaking research projects and innovative publications.

 
Persepolis
 
Walid Raad/Atlas Group

The Atlas Group was a project undertaken by Walid Raad between 1989 and 2004 to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon, with particular emphasis on the Lebanese wars of 1975 to 1990.

 
Novara Media

An independent media organisation addressing the issues that are set to define the 21st century, from a crisis of capitalism to racism and climate change.

 
Christina Sharpe

A scholar of English literature and Black Studies. Her academic research focuses Black visual studies, Black queer studies, and mid-nineteenth century to contemporary African-American Literature and Culture.

 
Black Audio Film Archive

BAFC was formed in response to the civil disturbances in Brixton in 1981 against British institutional racism, to promote a black cultural presence in the British media and arts.

 

Specializes in architectural design of public buildings, public art and experimental installations.

 
SMOUT ALLEN

We focus on the dynamic relationship between the natural and the man made and how this can be revealed to enhance the experience of the architectural landscape.

 
RAQS Media Collective

In directing and curating Yokohama Triennale 2020, the Raqs Media Collective made a request to start with the sources, thus compiling The Sourcebook for Yokohama Triennale 2020.

 
The Otolith Group

The Otolith Group creates films, installations, and performances that are driven by extensive research into the histories of science fiction and the legacies of trans-nationalism.

 
Nowness

A video channel premiering the best in global arts and culture across Art & Design, Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Music and Food & Travel.

 
Race, Space and Architecture

This project asks what a curriculum on space-making and race-making might look like with architecture and the designed world as a key reference point.

 
Alexis Pauline Gumbs

A “Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist” — Alexis Pauline Gumbs is an American writer, independent scholar, poet, activist and educator based in Durham, North Carolina.

 
Sara Ahmed

A feminist writer and independent scholar. Sara works at the intersection of feminist, queer and race studies. Her research is concerned with how bodies and worlds take shape; and how power is secured and challenged in everyday life worlds as well as institutional cultures.