This forum engaged social issues and ideas that reflected our values and the concerns of our publics. It was a platform for communication, advocacy, and community dialogue.
"There cannot be a situation where the writer creates something that does not carry its social mark."
We demand justice for the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Ahmaud Arbery, and the many others whose lives were taken by the police and white supremacy.
In these dark times, there is a need for safe spaces and sanctuaries like Slought where people can come together to care for and reflect with one another, privately and publicly. We are committed to constructing this space.
I think that the city needs to be more green but also less red. There's just too much red right now, meaning violence, and I think you should take this into consideration.
The spatial politics of race and class, the privatization of public space, and the ecological crisis we all face on this planet -- all this is forcing us to think in profoundly different ways about architecture than we might previously have been inclined.
A conversation with doctor Rebecca Gomperts of Women on Waves about strategies of empowerment and advocating for women's health and reproductive rights
A conversation with philosopher Samuel Weber about the ethics of responsiveness and remaining open to other perspectives even as one advocates for change.
As architects, we can be responsible for imagining counter spatial procedures, political and economic structures that can produce new modes of sociability and encounter.
A conversation with Steve Kurtz and the Critical Art Ensemble exploring the art of resistance and revisiting The Electronic Disturbance on its twentieth anniversary.
