madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media investigates popular social media clips documenting construction work by those present on site. Inspired by the rise of the creator economy, contractors, builders, and tradespeople have started to record and share their skills, creativity, and concerns with a digitally connected community of peers, clients, and(...)
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social media, TikTok, Instagram, architectural photography, construction workers, labour, skills
June 2024 to October 2024
madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media
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madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media investigates popular social media clips documenting construction work by those present on site. Inspired by the rise of the creator economy, contractors, builders, and tradespeople have started to record and share their skills, creativity, and concerns with a digitally connected community of peers, clients, and(...)
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social media, TikTok, Instagram, architectural photography, construction workers, labour, skills
articles
With and Within
cooperativism, collective, barcelona, spain, la borda, can batlló, social economy, indignados, context
19 April 2021
The Architecture of Cooperation
Kim Courrèges and Felipe de Ferrari of Plan Común speak with Carles Baiges and Cristina Gamboa of Lacol
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With and Within
On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
16 March 2017
Here It Is Toxic, There It Is Not
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
Environmental Histories
To kick off “Architecture and/for the Environment” —the CCA’s third Multidisciplinary Research Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—Daniel Abramson and Imre Szeman will present two key concepts that reconceive the environment in the history of architecture. Daniel Abramson, an architectural historian, will discuss how the idea of architectural “obsolescence”(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
15 December 2016, 6pm
Environmental Histories
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To kick off “Architecture and/for the Environment” —the CCA’s third Multidisciplinary Research Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—Daniel Abramson and Imre Szeman will present two key concepts that reconceive the environment in the history of architecture. Daniel Abramson, an architectural historian, will discuss how the idea of architectural “obsolescence”(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
journals and magazines
Review of social economy.
Milwaukee, Wis. : Catholic Economic Association at the Marquette University Press, 1942-, Milwaukee, Wis. : Association for Social Economics, London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis
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Milwaukee, Wis. : Catholic Economic Association at the Marquette University Press, 1942-, Milwaukee, Wis. : Association for Social Economics, London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis
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London : Oryx Press, 1974-, [United Kingdom] : Taylor & Frances, Berlin, Germany : Science Open, 2025-
journals and magazines
London : Oryx Press, 1974-, [United Kingdom] : Taylor & Frances, Berlin, Germany : Science Open, 2025-
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Building in the British economy between the wars, by Harry W. Richardson and Derek H. Aldcroft.
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3-355 pages illustrations 23 cm
London, Allen and Unwin, 1968.
Building in the British economy between the wars, by Harry W. Richardson and Derek H. Aldcroft.
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3-355 pages illustrations 23 cm
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London, Allen and Unwin, 1968.
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251 pages ; 18 cm
Harmondsworth : Pelican Books, 1972.
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Harmondsworth : Pelican Books, 1972.
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Economy in housing projects.
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92 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
New Delhi : Housing & Urban Development Corp., 1981.
Economy in housing projects.
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92 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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New Delhi : Housing & Urban Development Corp., 1981.
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4 preliminary leaves, 3-186 pages 19 cm
New York, Vanguard Press, 1926.
Ruskin's views of social justice [by] John Ruskin; edited and introduction by James Fuchs.
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4 preliminary leaves, 3-186 pages 19 cm
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New York, Vanguard Press, 1926.