https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site architecturalfutures Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:07:21 +0000 https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site en https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/22-GS Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:37:39 +0000 architecturalfutures https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/22-GS ︎︎︎ Architectural Future(s) https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/AF Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:44:54 +0000 architecturalfutures https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/AF The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL Architectural Future(s) MSci History &amp; Theory Year-4www.architecturalfutures.com https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/AF-24-1 Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:03:15 +0000 architecturalfutures https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/AF-24-1 ︎ The Bartlett School of Architecture University College London22 Gordon St,&nbsp;WC1H 0QB E-mail https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/Mobile-Navigation Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:38:34 +0000 architecturalfutures https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/Mobile-Navigation Journal 2023-24 Essays Dis / Replacement: Processes Of Displacement And Replacement During Periods of Transformation At The Barrington Recovery Site Euston Town: retaking the city in the wake of HS2 Order and Dis-Order Within the London Food Landscape: Exploring the Street Party and Structures of Social Eating Pamphlet for a Humanized Architectural Future Conserving and Celebrating Local Communities through Relicfication Reimagining Solidarities and Spaces in the Era of Industry 4.0 : Exploring the case study of Battersea as a Microcosm for a New Industrial Urbanism Transient Homes: The Sense of Home in Woodberry Down Estate Regeneration: An Exploration of Social Housing Precarity and Temporary Housing Provisions The Dialectic Relationship between the Peak District and Manchester, An enquiry into the perception, reality and politics of industrial innovation on the Derbyshire Moors Gazing and Glancing: Moments of Queer Mutuality in Public Spaces Fragmented Cognition of City’s Image: Distractions from TechnologyThe Desire for Dragons: A Critical Study Into the Application of 'Concrete Fantasy' and 'Parafiction' in Our Architectural Future(s) Contact ︎ https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/Index Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:31:01 +0000 architecturalfutures https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/Index https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/Journal-23-24 Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:44:34 +0000 architecturalfutures https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/Journal-23-24 ‘Future(s) that are our own’ Our present was once the future and yesterday’s dream. Now, as we look forward,&nbsp; what future(s) do we envision for ourselves, for others and for our planet? Faced with new and exciting innovations, on one hand, and urgent challenges, on the other, to what end(s) shall we mobilise our creative imaginaries, and by what means can we achieve them? &nbsp;... is ‘dreaming’ still a task for ‘the architect’? ... is ‘dreaming’ still a task for ‘the architect’?&nbsp; The Twentieth Century was laden with speculative hypotheses in every area of life, and architects could not resist the temptation to prophesy about the shape life must take to adhere to their lofty visions. From Le Corbusier’s Radiant City, to Constant’s New Babylon, the Futurama at the New York Fair to the Deconstructivists at MoMA, through Fuller’s domes, Isozaki’s capsules and Kaplický’s blobs, Sant’Elia’s Città Nuova to Archigram’s Insant City, and Niemeyer’s Brasilia to Rem’s Exodus, the visionary architectures of the avant-garde failed to anticipate the future they aimed to inspire; due, at times, to their egocentric visions or, at others, to their naïvetés towards the complexities that govern our realities. So, now, armed with hindsight and knowledge of yesterday’s aspirations and failures, must we abandon speculation and divorce our creative work from imaginable dreams? And if, “everything imaginable can be dreamed,” (Calvino, Invisible Cities), is everything imagineable worth dreaming? In the wake of WWII, Fred Polak writes in Images of the Future (1955) that without dreaming up alternative and better realities we cannot transcend the shortcomings of our present ones. Our imaginaries must then stem from a desire to improve conditions for ourselves and others; our dreams must be, like our future(s), plural, collective and participatory; they ought to encapsulate our best intentions and elevate our moral standards; they must factor in our differences and regard our histories; they should look up towards the innovative spirit of our time and discover its usefulness for improving our world and our environment, without looking down on the obstacles facing those farther away from the scope of our sight;&nbsp; and if we must dream of architecture, then let’s dream of buildings immersed in life, and of our future(s) that are uniquely our own. The Bartlett School of Architecture Module Stream Course Stage TitleTutors Guests BARC0158 History &amp; Theory MSci Year-4 Architectural Future(s)Kay Sedki (Co)Stamatis ZografosEmily MannMichael HebbertPolly HudsonPeg RawesEmily PriestReinier de GraafJose Torero CullenToby Day Essay Brief <img width="1654" height="2339" width_o="1654" height_o="2339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/beb3742763b32565a4d0df623c66c5b2239c7ffc165783e6cdb690bf315a6907/Architectural-Futures---Essay-Brief-II_Page_1.jpg" data-mid="213147568" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/beb3742763b32565a4d0df623c66c5b2239c7ffc165783e6cdb690bf315a6907/Architectural-Futures---Essay-Brief-II_Page_1.jpg" /> <img width="1654" height="2339" width_o="1654" height_o="2339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47f5ab2986a2e39b743b38eb2e8641327570c2c9183ac2b2dffe3a0b82f044ae/Architectural-Futures---Essay-Brief-II_Page_2.jpg" data-mid="213147575" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47f5ab2986a2e39b743b38eb2e8641327570c2c9183ac2b2dffe3a0b82f044ae/Architectural-Futures---Essay-Brief-II_Page_2.jpg" /> Domains of Change (23-24) Yesterday’s Future(s) / Non-Linear HistoriesUrban Future(s) / Precarity and EquityFuture(s) of the Past / Heritage and MemoryDigital and Planetary Future(s)Future Ecologies / Sustainable Future(s)Future Architecture(s) / The Architect’s Future Abstract Posters <img width="4960" height="7015" width_o="4960" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48651f26d997b93b3977b043d79bd1762f8dc9038ed2042f5abad704314848a1/Y4_A2_Poster_3.jpg" data-mid="213077512" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48651f26d997b93b3977b043d79bd1762f8dc9038ed2042f5abad704314848a1/Y4_A2_Poster_3.jpg" /> <img width="4960" height="7015" width_o="4960" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2d0cb52f1693edfbe7df167ef55bf5d7b97c20948cb2eab17ade7a1b7f344c9/Y4_A2_Poster_7.jpg" data-mid="213077516" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2d0cb52f1693edfbe7df167ef55bf5d7b97c20948cb2eab17ade7a1b7f344c9/Y4_A2_Poster_7.jpg" /> <img width="4960" height="7015" width_o="4960" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0746742f0e5fc91c0b617bdb92dfc34766afc0a382c0563abdd800cd79a6b86/Y4_A2_Poster_9.jpg" data-mid="213077518" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0746742f0e5fc91c0b617bdb92dfc34766afc0a382c0563abdd800cd79a6b86/Y4_A2_Poster_9.jpg" /> <img width="4960" height="7015" width_o="4960" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e741006c304b55e67c8242fc227112e276b63477757b0492497c40fc21b623f3/Y4_A2_Poster_8.jpg" data-mid="213077517" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e741006c304b55e67c8242fc227112e276b63477757b0492497c40fc21b623f3/Y4_A2_Poster_8.jpg" /> <img width="4960" height="7015" width_o="4960" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d525d698473930fca6110b053ed9d8027604cedf51fa1bc78b4dec93eb7b9471/Y4_A2_Poster_4.jpg" data-mid="213077513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d525d698473930fca6110b053ed9d8027604cedf51fa1bc78b4dec93eb7b9471/Y4_A2_Poster_4.jpg" /> <img width="4960" height="7015" width_o="4960" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3df6d7eb56b34b85ea30ed202c789d0d3b056684fb7f267fb0f41cf520afd19/Y4_A2_Poster_6.jpg" data-mid="213077515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3df6d7eb56b34b85ea30ed202c789d0d3b056684fb7f267fb0f41cf520afd19/Y4_A2_Poster_6.jpg" /> <img width="4960" height="7015" width_o="4960" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6dae734919e2920f453e0d9fd023f511b693568c9abf0c2c930b3090ac16d117/Y4_A2_Poster_5.jpg" data-mid="213077514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6dae734919e2920f453e0d9fd023f511b693568c9abf0c2c930b3090ac16d117/Y4_A2_Poster_5.jpg" /> <img width="4960" height="7015" width_o="4960" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73ba803dd1a1e0274e246ce86c2ce91cc182896be1b43d25278dadf5bb7ad579/Y4_A2_Poster_2.jpg" data-mid="213077511" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73ba803dd1a1e0274e246ce86c2ce91cc182896be1b43d25278dadf5bb7ad579/Y4_A2_Poster_2.jpg" /> “architect, verb” <img width="8000" height="5000" width_o="8000" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbd830ad5a329e9555b61b9e3e32ec10daa5884c73e0f0a1dc5a52c68c017e49/architect--verb---smiley.jpg" data-mid="213143682" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbd830ad5a329e9555b61b9e3e32ec10daa5884c73e0f0a1dc5a52c68c017e49/architect--verb---smiley.jpg" /> Architecture is a future-oriented practice; quick to conceptualise and slow to materialise; often late – or, otherwise, too early. Actions of architecture are inherently speculative, constantly navigating a world of uncertainty and change. Today, in practice and in education, mirrors have turned towards architecture itself inviting critique and speculation about the future of architectural practice and putting to question its values and influence. These questions drive the history &amp; theory module, Architectural Future(s), on MSci Year 4, where students and guests discuss different ‘domains of change’ impacting (or impacted by) architecture. In this public episode of Architectural Future(s), our guest, Reinier de Graaf, will share his thoughts on some of these notions with students and a wider audience. The event is organised by Architecture MSci for the cluster programmes Architecture BSc,&nbsp; Architecture MArch and Engineering and Architectural Design MEng andincludes a poster exhibition and a student-led discussion panel. <img width="2362" height="2362" width_o="2362" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5b478924c2ef3b39191c5dd46672c9ab60a2181da2bc91fa8b18081a2f3877a/Reinier-de-Graaf---photo-by-Adrienne-Norman.jpg" data-mid="213143694" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5b478924c2ef3b39191c5dd46672c9ab60a2181da2bc91fa8b18081a2f3877a/Reinier-de-Graaf---photo-by-Adrienne-Norman.jpg" /> Reinier de Graaf (1964, Schiedam) is a Dutch architect and writer. He is a partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and the co-founder of its think-tank AMO. Reinier is the author of Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession, the novel The Masterplan, and the recently published architect, verb. He lives in Amsterdam. How to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that foster a sense of place and wellbeing. Be it sci-fi megastructures in the Middle East or historicist towns in the UK, new projects are invariably marketed with the same buzzwords: “world-class”, “award-winning”, “creative”, “innovative”, “sustainable”, “livable”, “beautiful” or fostering “a sense of place and wellbeing”. What is the significance of such terms? When does a building warrant the label “world-class”? Why is one city more “liveable” than the next? What is the meaning of “innovation” in architecture? And what building can credibly claim to improve anyone's “wellbeing”?If De Graaf’s debut book Four Walls and a Roof was about debunking myths within the architecture profession, architect, verb aims to debunk myths projected onto architecture by the outside world – a rebuttal of doctrines which have been applied to architecture over the last twenty years. The incorporation of extraneous terms such as “livability”, “innovation” or “wellbeing” into the glossary of architecture is part of an ongoing trend in which the language to debate architecture is less and less architects' own, and more and more that of outside forces imposing outside expectations. Once a profession known for its manifestos, architecture finds itself increasingly forced to adopt ever-more extreme postures of virtue, held accountable by the world of finance, the social sciences or the medical sector. <img width="4240" height="2384" width_o="4240" height_o="2384" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a03f9a27932aa4ed5d9f5f184bcd7a7eb0c4e637bf1e8d20fd335e4b36aca452/DSCF5957.jpg" data-mid="213147320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a03f9a27932aa4ed5d9f5f184bcd7a7eb0c4e637bf1e8d20fd335e4b36aca452/DSCF5957.jpg" /> <img width="4240" height="2384" width_o="4240" height_o="2384" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a91131acda700fd941c67899d9fb54d69b416a646e32c3c8213738c3569653dc/DSCF5943.jpg" data-mid="213147318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a91131acda700fd941c67899d9fb54d69b416a646e32c3c8213738c3569653dc/DSCF5943.jpg" /> <img width="2646" height="1486" width_o="2646" height_o="1486" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1ec8ff3ed3505a1510192e80575be9d6798576ed859c2658d91278c7e5ad6c1/DSCF5998.jpg" data-mid="213147323" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1ec8ff3ed3505a1510192e80575be9d6798576ed859c2658d91278c7e5ad6c1/DSCF5998.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0059b6aefb3c50a93db07c31576a7b2daa01b28b15600e1664d484684f11ae69/DSCF5984.jpg" data-mid="213156726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0059b6aefb3c50a93db07c31576a7b2daa01b28b15600e1664d484684f11ae69/DSCF5984.jpg" /> &nbsp;“architect, verb” lecture and panel discussion with Reinier de Graaf (OMA/AMO) at the Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street, G12 on Nov 23, 2023 Yesterday’s Futures / Non-Linear Histories <img width="2507" height="1410" width_o="2507" height_o="1410" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd29a9530f29cbc5dbc59996bb596263a2a2fe7ea0442bb258624bf4e17942ef/UCL-231005-3_Page_13.jpg" data-mid="213148370" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd29a9530f29cbc5dbc59996bb596263a2a2fe7ea0442bb258624bf4e17942ef/UCL-231005-3_Page_13.jpg" /> E-mail&nbsp; &nbsp;Kay https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/From-the-back-seat-Addressing-spatial-inequities-for-Private-Hire Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:50:28 +0000 architecturalfutures https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/From-the-back-seat-Addressing-spatial-inequities-for-Private-Hire Aiala Samula Lopez From the back seat: Addressing spatial inequities for Private Hire Vehicle Drivers through the &nbsp;re-imagination of London’s urban infrastructureThis piece is an exploration of the distinctions in the spatiality of employment conditions regarding PHVs versus taxis in London and the systemic inequalities that emerge from this analysis. The writing culminates in a cognisance of what could constitute a future ‘beneficial’ architectural model/intervention to begin reducing these inequalities. Essentially functioning as an inquiry into the degree of spatial justice afforded to these workers; workers often sat in the ‘back seat’ of conversations surrounding the domains of transport infrastructure, precarity and equity.&nbsp; Architecture’s role as a rooting infrastructure of social organisation is a privilege not easily afforded to Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) drivers in London, as their rights within the city currently face contestation. Concerns surrounding ethical practice due to a lack of government/company accountability, warrants conversation around a justice-based argument for freedom of mobility regarding consumer and service worker. Scholar Mimi Sheller emphasises the uneven distribution of mobility systems like the transport sector and urban design, suggesting they are rife with inequality due to the hierarchies of power that forge them. Hence, this article functions as an inquiry into the degree of spatial justice afforded to these workers; workers often sat in the ‘back seat’ of conversations surrounding the domains of transport infrastructure, precarity and equity.By analysing distinctions in the spatiality of employment conditions regarding PHVs versus taxis, systemic inequalities begin to emerge. Although, the landscape is more complicated, for the purposes of this paper, it has been summarised to more succinctly comment on how infrastructural hierarchies relate to driver wellbeing. Uber’s operational model will be used as a case study, to provide point of reference for the treatment of drivers. Interviews with an immediate family member working as an Uber driver, will serve as supporting evidence; supplemented by opinions of other drivers sourced from digital forums. This will culminate in a cognisance of what could constitute a future ‘beneficial’ architectural model/intervention to begin reducing these inequalities. Without an infrastructure of support, people are often left to rely on themselves. In tandem with AbdouMaliq Simone’s theory how do we go about suggesting infrastructure for people that are already an infrastructure? <img width="8000" height="4500" width_o="8000" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d3018fc81abef9a81bc8dee248a0c66aa664d322274f982e2ee51e266c751ea/Aiala-Samula-Lopez1.jpg" data-mid="235098268" border="0" alt="1" data-caption="1" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d3018fc81abef9a81bc8dee248a0c66aa664d322274f982e2ee51e266c751ea/Aiala-Samula-Lopez1.jpg" /> <img width="8000" height="4500" width_o="8000" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89a8b2db6ad9b472476126048ddb19b2c87e1b3975ca1767d25b2380505d6cb2/Aiala-Samula-Lopez3.jpg" data-mid="235098270" border="0" alt="3" data-caption="3" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89a8b2db6ad9b472476126048ddb19b2c87e1b3975ca1767d25b2380505d6cb2/Aiala-Samula-Lopez3.jpg" /> <img width="8000" height="4500" width_o="8000" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be10a044da3e71175be2cacc1a9050f4aa9f8a6c6e595de5f60094b7a7aadb0b/Aiala-Samula-Lopez2.jpg" data-mid="235098269" border="0" alt="2" data-caption="2" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be10a044da3e71175be2cacc1a9050f4aa9f8a6c6e595de5f60094b7a7aadb0b/Aiala-Samula-Lopez2.jpg" /> <img width="8000" height="4500" width_o="8000" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcee1b0abc38b7e95ec21072fe2ab343b69a9872cb13c3e6342c8b9556b91783/Aiala-Samula-Lopez5.jpg" data-mid="235098272" border="0" alt="5" data-caption="5" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcee1b0abc38b7e95ec21072fe2ab343b69a9872cb13c3e6342c8b9556b91783/Aiala-Samula-Lopez5.jpg" /> <img width="8000" height="4500" width_o="8000" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10ab1ace37f44e80b208202282541501338bb5a6f797f809eb03e78e235a526d/Aiala-Samula-Lopez4.jpg" data-mid="235098271" border="0" alt="4" data-caption="4" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10ab1ace37f44e80b208202282541501338bb5a6f797f809eb03e78e235a526d/Aiala-Samula-Lopez4.jpg" /> 1. Comparative timeline of &nbsp;the evolution of buses and taxis/PHVs in London. 2. Excerpt from Sambu’s PHV Driver handbook. 3. TfL’s yearly income from phv/taxi sector broken down. 4. Sambu in his car. 5. Potential site of existing gathering in Tottenham [N15 4LU] for the deployment of the proposed scheme. The site is already used by drivers as an informal rest stop. &nbsp; https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/Architect-s-Duty-Of-Care-Within-The-Multifaceted-Genealogy-Of Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:30:53 +0000 architecturalfutures https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/Architect-s-Duty-Of-Care-Within-The-Multifaceted-Genealogy-Of Anda Guinea Architect's Duty Of Care Within The Multifaceted Genealogy Of Romanian Healthcare | A Transposition Of The 20th.c Communist RegimeConsidering Romania’s political transposition in 1989 and the effect incurred on its healthcare infrastructure, fire outbreaks have magnified the architect’s role in designing facilities that remain flexible and adaptive despite urbicidal disintegration, balancing duty of care with the social right to health amid nepotism and fiscal austerity policies imposed.The functionality of healthcare is paramount in the development of a thriving and equitable society; however, the Romanian public healthcare system presents a stark contrast, presently impaired and qualitatively poor. Infrastructurally Romanian healthcare institutions remain bound to the communist regime, as the 20th century played a foundational role in forming much of the existing built environment which has seen minimal restoration, despite improved expectations concerning living conditions and a current 21st century democratic government. The dissertation investigates Romania’s healthcare crisis through a focused case study: the Clinical Hospital of Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology - Prof. Dr Panait Sarbu located in Bucharest and most notably associated with the ‘The Giulesti Maternity Fire - 2010’, an example of numerous tragedies within the parameters of the healthcare system in which innocent lives continue to be lost. The dissertation uses fires as an analytical proxy to expose the deeper political and economical dysfunctions which facilitates the pinnacle of structural disintegration, highlighting issues such as urbicide, fiscal austerity, bribery, nepotism, economic capital and the mediatisation of the public health crisis. Moreover, the dissertation frames health as a discontinued duty of care, augmenting the extent to which institutional instability is attributed to the country’s political transposition in 1989 and the realities which have been incurred or inherited. In response, the study culminates with the proposed deployment of the Open Building and System Separation methodological frameworks, models which imply that structurally adaptive and strategically planned healthcare environments could present greater resilience towards the effects of direct or indirect systemic urbicide. If healthcare infrastructure continues to deteriorate, through structural integrity failures and numerous fire related crises, this poses a profound fissure inflicted on societal integrity, whereby the disintegration of hospitals signals the withdrawal of health + (care) from the necessity of human condition, leaving urbicidal annihilation to persist unimpeded. <img width="2600" height="720" width_o="2600" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ae4d0eef42be54bf85a72be886f4474c66c1a0679a19a8acffc8dfcaee0435d/Fig.3---Archival-Scanteia-1984-07-24-Newspape_Anda-Guinea.png" data-mid="235099533" border="0" alt="3" data-caption="3" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ae4d0eef42be54bf85a72be886f4474c66c1a0679a19a8acffc8dfcaee0435d/Fig.3---Archival-Scanteia-1984-07-24-Newspape_Anda-Guinea.png" /> <img width="1386" height="986" width_o="1386" height_o="986" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24d747d058be79afb7506cb67a3462f6bfc9e237cbedb19d4f9dca9e7a72d764/Fig.4---Archival-Scanteia-1984-07-24-Newspape_Anda-Guinea.png" data-mid="235099534" border="0" alt="4" data-caption="4" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24d747d058be79afb7506cb67a3462f6bfc9e237cbedb19d4f9dca9e7a72d764/Fig.4---Archival-Scanteia-1984-07-24-Newspape_Anda-Guinea.png" /> <img width="1038" height="1190" width_o="1038" height_o="1190" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/329b93b96b353e1136562342737ba4faae6ce871bc59fa88ad8069800939e9ec/Fig.5---Archival-Scanteia-1984-07-24-Newspape_Anda-Guinea.png" data-mid="235099535" border="0" alt="5" data-caption="5" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/329b93b96b353e1136562342737ba4faae6ce871bc59fa88ad8069800939e9ec/Fig.5---Archival-Scanteia-1984-07-24-Newspape_Anda-Guinea.png" /> <img width="750" height="422" width_o="750" height_o="422" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a27a7ce1900b54de6fc23057d618031cc9260e96449fcb17babfa0d14bd6ccc2/Fig.2_Giulesti-Maternity-Fire-2010-Evacuation_Anda-Guinea.jpeg" data-mid="235099532" border="0" alt="2" data-caption="2" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/a27a7ce1900b54de6fc23057d618031cc9260e96449fcb17babfa0d14bd6ccc2/Fig.2_Giulesti-Maternity-Fire-2010-Evacuation_Anda-Guinea.jpeg" /> <img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73c41dd0f80cf28cc3ebcfd041990ca07849468a8778ea6bb606fcfdd85887af/Fig.1_Health-That-Burns-Us-Campaign-Poster_Anda-Guinea.jpg" data-mid="235099531" border="0" alt="1" data-caption="1" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73c41dd0f80cf28cc3ebcfd041990ca07849468a8778ea6bb606fcfdd85887af/Fig.1_Health-That-Burns-Us-Campaign-Poster_Anda-Guinea.jpg" /> 1. ‘Sanatatea Care Ne Arde’ / ‘Health That Burns Us’ Campaign Poster Graphics By Context.ro Source: Context, (2023), ‘INTERACTIVE How old is the electrical network in yourhospital’, [online], available at: https://context.ro/interactiv-cat-de-veche-e-reteaua-electrica-din-spitalul-tau/&nbsp; 2. Photograph from the ‘Giulesti Maternity Fire - 2010’ evacuationSource: Stiri de Cluj, Carbune.D, (2010), ‘Images from the fire at the Giulesti maternity hospital’, [online], available at: https://www.stiridecluj.ro/national-international/imagini-din-incendiul-de-la-maternitatea-giulesti-personalul-medical-nu-face-nimic-pentru-a-i-salva-pe-bebelusi-video3. Archival Scanteia (‘The Spark’) 1984-07-24 Newspaper Extract [1]Translation |Heading: ‘‘101 new hospitals, built during the socialist years, in all counties of the country”Source: Arcanum Newspapers, 'Scanteia, 1984-07-24 / nr. 13037', [online], available at: https:// adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Scinteia_1984_07/?pg=115&amp;layout=s 4. Archival Scanteia (‘The Spark’) 1984-07-24 Newspaper Extract [2]Translation |Heading: “Extensive expansion of the material base of health”Graphics: “Number of Beds in Hospital Units”Description: “INCREASING THE CAPACITY OF THE MEDICAL CARE NETWORK - During the years of socialism, 101 new large-capacity hospitals were built, equipped with modern equipment. Today, new hospitals are operating in all counties of the country. The number of dispensaries and polyclinics has increased from 1,276 in 1938 to over 6,200 this year”Source: Arcanum Newspapers, 'Scanteia, 1984-07-24 / nr. 13037', [online], available at: https:// adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Scinteia_1984_07/?pg=115&amp;layout=s 5. Archival Scanteia (‘The Spark’) 1984-07-24 Newspaper Extract [3]Translation |Heading: “This year, 16.6 billion lei for free medical care”Graphics: “AMOUNTS SPENT FROM THE STATE BUDGET FOR HEALTH ACTIVITY”Description: “The annual funds currently allocated are equivalent to those from the entire decade 1951-1960. For the protection of the health of each inhabitant, the state annually allocates almost 780 lei, compared to only 40 lei in 1950 and 252 lei in 1965. The allocation of increased funds allowed the endowment of health units with modern means of investigation, diagnosis and treatment”Source: Arcanum Newspapers, 'Scanteia, 1984-07-24 / nr. 13037', [online], available at: https:// adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Scinteia_1984_07/?pg=115&amp;layout=s https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/Take-The-Show-to-the-Streets Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:52:42 +0000 architecturalfutures https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/Take-The-Show-to-the-Streets Charisse Kwong Take The Show to the StreetsThis essay reflects on personal experience dancing in London's public spaces to explore informal performance as a political act that reclaims the city. Performance disrupts urban control, asserts autonomy, fosters dialogue, and redefines public space as a site of collective agency, resistance, and meaning-making by and for the people.Based on an autobiographical reflection on my personal experience performing choreography in Central London's public spaces, this essay investigates how performance-based practices, specifically art-based forms conducted with intent and choreography, recontextualise the city and encourage the assertion of personal autonomy and expression in public space. The themes and concepts in this work originate from personal experience before being analysed through spatial politics and theory. Photography (personal and sourced) and its arrangement are used for illustration, supplementation, and engagement with wider literature. The public sphere is a web of intersecting publics—online, offline, and hybrid—within which public space as the front stage of social life enables rich, unpredictable interactions and serves as a potent site for artistic and political expression (Bruns, 2023; Spencer, 2020). As nodes of diverse practices, urban environments are fertile ground for such meaningful encounters. To claim one's right to the city means to activate public space for spontaneous, socially meaningful use (Lefebvre, 1996). Performing artists, unlike other actors in public, engage space with deliberate awareness of audience perception (Davies, 2011), transforming public infrastructure into platforms for creative resistance, community interaction, and the reimagining of urban identity (Borden, 2019). What begins as recreational practice reveals itself as a political act—performances challenge public infrastructure and the schemes of public control they execute by illuminating and challenging their insidious encroachment while providing moments where the people gather in numbers, action, and power to make an intentional stand on public ground. Together, performers and audiences disrupt urban hierarchies, using space spontaneously and democratically to create new spatial relationships defined by the people and not the state. These acts decentralise meaning-making, foster public dialogue, and resist the city as a site of obedience, instead advocating for agency and transparency.&nbsp; <img width="3508" height="3508" width_o="3508" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34de376466d7d1bcf89f677df1834d04a8a22cb8764da342ff5423628825ac75/2_Charisse-Kwong.jpg" data-mid="235100344" border="0" alt="2" data-caption="2" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34de376466d7d1bcf89f677df1834d04a8a22cb8764da342ff5423628825ac75/2_Charisse-Kwong.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="3508" width_o="3508" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b16a4ad59abef99695baeb1ed2462951e13eaa9bbc24f50901749325a099e23/1_Charisse-Kwong.jpg" data-mid="235100343" border="0" alt="1" data-caption="1" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b16a4ad59abef99695baeb1ed2462951e13eaa9bbc24f50901749325a099e23/1_Charisse-Kwong.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="3508" width_o="3508" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6cf2b59b54d66d6e439f87fb6ed65c7e8469f9841570ac00a70d79e4d53c2bb7/5_Charisse-Kwong.jpg" data-mid="235100346" border="0" alt="4" data-caption="4" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6cf2b59b54d66d6e439f87fb6ed65c7e8469f9841570ac00a70d79e4d53c2bb7/5_Charisse-Kwong.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="3508" width_o="3508" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ee4ad848a1debc49991c8b50f0da5e2df51d27db97b1650f7635687094973b3/3_Charisse-Kwong.jpg" data-mid="235100345" border="0" alt="3" data-caption="3" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ee4ad848a1debc49991c8b50f0da5e2df51d27db97b1650f7635687094973b3/3_Charisse-Kwong.jpg" /> 1. Performance materialises public rules: there is no indication of regulatory restriction until confronted by figures of order 2. Performance humanises space and connects people: interstitial spaces of passage become sites for social gathering 3. The stage is a reciprocal proposition: the public react to dancers and leave them space, establishing new spatial order 4. They watch and judge: the public display heightened scrutiny toward public performances and film it freely https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/A-Case-for-Doing-Almost-Nothing-Growth-Decay-and-Heritage-In-the-Post Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:07:21 +0000 architecturalfutures https://architecturalfutures.cargo.site/A-Case-for-Doing-Almost-Nothing-Growth-Decay-and-Heritage-In-the-Post Charlie Hayles A Case for Doing [Almost] Nothing: Growth, Decay and Heritage In the Post-Human ConvergenceHow have we found ourselves in this ‘commemorative fever’, where almost everything is saved and thus deemed vitally important?A piece that attempts to understand why it is that we must protect [almost] everything, and the growing need to begin doing [almost] nothing.This is the second publication of this piece. The first no longer exists.Hand written onto one single sheet of receipt paper and left next to a chair in the studio for a day, passersby were encouraged to pick up the initial publication and read it.Creases, accidental rips, and the occasional food stains; with each reading, the piece was pulled further into a state of decay. Until, towards the end, only fragments remained. The reader thereby became an audience member to the previous readings that took place that day, as well as a performer for the readings to follow.-The remains of a late 19th century mansion named Castle House lie in the chalky soil of Shooter’s Hill in Southeast London. Belonging to the inventor of the oil insulator for telegraph lines, Samuel Edmund Phillips lived in the house for 27 years before his death in 1893. &nbsp;A century later, now only a few bricks high, the walls act as fences between one garden and another. Ivy engulfs, tree’s roots probe. The lack of beer cans and cigarette butts suggest this place really is hidden to most.Amongst the broken flint tiles and chipped Victorian bricks, a sense of urgency appeared. An urge to step in at the last minute. To save this site (with which I had just become acquainted) from material disintegration; from being completely forgotten. This piece attempts to contextualise this ‘urgency’ to protect, within the larger crisis facing the field of heritage. It then provides three theoretical propositions of how to handle Castle House. The first, a traditional heritage practice involving categorical fixing, frameworks and fencing. The second, a post human heritage practice, constituting of doing nothing, an act that remains hidden to the public. The third, a case for doing almost nothing, a proposal to let everyone know that nothing will be done, with the ability to witness it.By drawing back the curtain, or rather brambles, this piece attempts to reframe western heritage, from a stiflingly self-consumed and paralysing practice, to one that enables us to talk beyond the human. A radical act so desperately needed as we stand in the shadow of an ecological unravelling. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/184ab1f44314e39da07984370e3dda8660f5eb623c163da9f3393baf130ab268/Nadia_Charlie-Hayles.jpg" data-mid="235101184" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/184ab1f44314e39da07984370e3dda8660f5eb623c163da9f3393baf130ab268/Nadia_Charlie-Hayles.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/517832f475f7cf18661ef53327787efff9bf18f0810a4454a82f4f0d49ae4aaa/Raihan_Charlie-Hayles.jpg" data-mid="235101186" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/517832f475f7cf18661ef53327787efff9bf18f0810a4454a82f4f0d49ae4aaa/Raihan_Charlie-Hayles.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7523c90bd3d5ef5fbb8cf717cb22f88844be06d7bcd7e1624e070c1afcc13396/Nikki_Charlie-Hayles.jpg" data-mid="235101185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7523c90bd3d5ef5fbb8cf717cb22f88844be06d7bcd7e1624e070c1afcc13396/Nikki_Charlie-Hayles.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51fb41f7efcd2fad10c56541b7d601dec9d62f31350015cdad108f53e7c2e9af/charlieee_Charlie-Hayles.jpg" data-mid="235101182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51fb41f7efcd2fad10c56541b7d601dec9d62f31350015cdad108f53e7c2e9af/charlieee_Charlie-Hayles.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2ca74998a5c22f9f60a37171bb972834433bc818dbb32b5b0f384428da9cfda/Jianhao_Charlie-Hayles.jpg" data-mid="235101183" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2ca74998a5c22f9f60a37171bb972834433bc818dbb32b5b0f384428da9cfda/Jianhao_Charlie-Hayles.jpg" /> &nbsp;Reader 1.Reader 2.Reader 3.Reader 4.Reader 5. (all photos taken by Charlie Hayles)