Recording intersections between architecture, geology and politics

 

Dedicated the politics of space and bodies 

 

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

 

A collection of architectural drawings (2011-2016)

 

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

 

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency

 

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 --

 

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

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

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

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 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.

 

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

 

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.

 
 

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

 

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."

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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 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.

 
 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.