This piece is part of a larger ongoing work to establish a future vision for architecture, one that is grounded in care and eco-feminism. We are indebted to authors Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Adrienne maree brown, Elke Krazny, the Slow Factory, Anna Tsing, Françoise Vérgés, Mierle Ledermann Ukeles, in addition to the ones […]
This piece is part of a larger ongoing work to establish a future vision for architecture, one that is grounded in care and eco-feminism. We are indebted to authors Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Adrienne maree brown, Elke Krazny, the Slow Factory, Anna Tsing, Françoise Vérgés, Mierle Ledermann Ukeles, in addition to the ones quoted and/or paraphrased here, and would like to thank Menna Agha, Lev Bratishenko, Lillian Chee, Cynthia Deng, Elif Erez, Silvia Federici, Sarah Nichols, Gabrielle Schaad, Jan De Vylder, Ilze Wolff and many more for incredibly inspiring and enriching conversations.
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Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is Assistant Professor of Urban Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Malterre-Barthes’ interests are related to urgent aspects of contemporary urbanization, material extraction and climate emergency, and how struggling communities can gain greater access to resources, better governance, and ecological/social justice. She co-authored among other books Eileen Gray: A House under the Sun (Nobrow), Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore (Edition Patrick Frey), Migrant Marseille and Housing Cairo: The Informal Response (Ruby Press), and recently started the initiative ‘A Global Moratorium on New Construction.’ She is a founding member of the Parity Group and Parity Front, networks dedicated to improving equity in architecture.
Zosia Dzierżawska is a Warsaw-based illustrator & comics author with a passion for storytelling, history and architecture. Her works have been recognised twice at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition and the Society of Illustrators in New York. She has published with Oxford University Press, Rizzoli, Candlewick Press, and others. Her work on the graphic novel Eileen Gray. A House Under the Sun (ed. Nobrow, London, 2019) marked the beginning of a collaboration with the architect Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, which now continues as an ongoing series of illustrated essays on the current and future practice of architecture.
