The funambulist by its readers : political geographies from Chicago and elsewhere / editor-in-cief, Léopold Lambert.

Paris, France : The Funambulist, [2019]

233 pages ; 21 cm

Initiated in 2015 as a print and online magazine, The Funambulist does not understand architecture as the authored design of inhabitable sculptures, but rather as the discipline that organizes bodies in space. With such a perspective, The Funambulist attempted to detach themself from architecture as a discipline and have focused instead on formulating spatial approaches to anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, queer, trans, feminist, anti-ableist political struggles and that against which they fight. For this book commissionned by the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019, The Funambulist invited 20 regular readers (many of whom are also contributors) of the magazine to pick, among the many texts they published in their 22 first issues, the one that appeared to them as the most politically useful. The Funambulist republished these texts here, as well as their introductions, written by these 20 guests. In addition to this, The Funambulist asked five Chicago-based activists to write about the spatial politics of their city in relation to settler colonialism, the municipality, the police, the real estate pressure, as well as the school system. At a crucial moment following the change of administration, this appeared to us as the most politically useful thing The Funambulist could do to propagate the voices of those active on the ground.

9782956935803
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Architecture Political aspects.
Space (Architecture)
Architecture and society.
Architecture and philosophy.
Political activists.
Social advocacy.
Architecture Aspect politique.
Espace (Architecture)
Architecture et société.
Architecture et philosophie.
Activistes.
Défense des droits économiques et sociaux.
activists.

Lambert, Léopold, 1985- editor.
Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019)
Funambulist.

Location: Library main 307812
Call No.: BIB 253292
Status: Available