Harriet Harriss 

Working at the Intersection

RIBA Publishing, 2022

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EDITED BY
Harriet Harriss, Naomi House.

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Without environmental justice, there can be no social justice.

The critical symptoms of human suffering, climate collapse and animal maltreatment are now global and far-reaching. Despite their interdependence, the treatment of these afflictions remains disconnected. What follows is policy and design decisions that fail to tackle the problems collectively.

Exposing the narrow perspectives that dominate architectural discourse and practice, this volume sets the table for inclusive architectural engagement during a time circumscribed by pandemic, climate change and inequality.

An respected group of international voices amplifies interactions relating to sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia and environmental catastrophe, exploring how they are inextricably linked.

Without acknowledging the interconnectedness of these injustices, we will not find effective ways to halt the deepening crisis. Or be able to experience an architecture that addresses the effects of the human-centred Anthropocene age.

Readers are invited to imagine, rage, rail, protest, contest, channel, dream and envision from a position of humility, equity, and in some instances, experiential fury.

The future of architecture is contingent on working at the intersection.

Contents

BEYOND THE SPACES OF SPECIESISM
Editors' Introduction
AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF INTERSECTIONALITY
by V. Mitch McEwen
ARCHITECTURE IS DYSPHORIC AND WANTS TO TRANSITION
by McKenzie Wark
NON-BINARY ECOLOGIES
by Harriet Harriss & Naomi House
LOSER IMAGES: A FEMINIST PROPOSAL FOR POST-ANTHROPOCENE VISUALITY
by Joanna Zylinska
PLANETARY PORTALS IN THE UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD
by Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Kerry Holden, Kathryn Yusoff
FROM ANTHROPOCENE TO BIOCENE: NOVEL BIO-INTEGRATED DESIGNS AS A MEANS TO RESPOND TO THE CURRENT BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CRISIS by Marcos Cruz and Brenda Parker
SITOPIA: A LANDSCAPE FOR HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN FLOURISHING
by Carolyn Steel
THE ANTHROPOCENE MUSEUM: A TROUBLESOME TRAIL OF IMPROVISION TOWARDS THE CHTHULUCENE
by Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi Ca'n
TERRA: FOR LANDSCAPES OF THE POST-ANTHROPOCENE
by Anton Garcia-Abril and Debora Mesa Pollinators
PAVILION: THE ARCHITECTURE OF ANALOGOUS HABITATS
by Ariane Lourie Harrison
THE WILDING OF MARS
by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
BAT CLOUD
by Joyce Hwang
IN BETWEEN LANDSCAPE - NVIDIA HEADQUARTERS
by Walter Hood
FINAL WORD
by Timothy Morton