What is Solidarity?
Movements,
research,
and
design
for
another
world
WATERLOO
ARCHITECTURE
ARRISCRAFT
2020-2021
ONLINE
SPEAKER
SERIES
The 2020-2021 Waterloo Architecture Arriscraft Speaker Series What is Solidarity? asks: how can architects participate in collective, long-term social movements for change and advocate within and beyond professional obligations? The series welcomes activists, researchers, designers, and artists demanding Indigenous land sovereignty, disability justice, abolition of police and prisons, the right to secure housing, non-extractive construction, and access to culturally nourishing food. Each session brings three speakers into conversation about how their work supports Land Back, Disability Justice, Abolition, Right to Remain, Anti-Extractivism and Food Sovereignty, and to imagine how architects might too. This series of discussions will be linked to student-led workshops to facilitate deeper conversations about how solidarities might resonate within the school and beyond. The series is curated by faculty members and students representing student groups Treaty Lands, Global Stories, Bridge, and the Sustainability Collective. These groups and other Waterloo Architecture students have joined uprisings against the racist and exclusionary legacies of colonialism and white supremacy, calling for transformation of their education and chosen profession. By listening to, learning from, and joining movements for change, architecture can collaborate and co-conspire in the making of another world.
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LAND
BACK
Tuesday,
September
22,
6:30
–
8:00pm
Amy
Smoke,
Co-founder
&
Organizer,
Land
Back
Camp,
Victoria
Park,
Kitchener
Phil
Monture,
Nativelands,
Six
Nations
of
the
Grand
River
Eladia
Smoke |
KaaSheGaaBaaWeak,
Smoke
Architecture,
Laurentian
University
BREAKING
THE
CODE:
DESIGNING
FOR
NON-CONFORMING
BODIES
Tuesday,
October
20,
6:30
–
8:00pm
Luke
Anderson,
StopGap
Foundation,
Toronto
Aimi
Hamraie,
Critical
Design
Lab,
Vanderbilt
University,
Nashville
Susan
Stryker,
University
of
Arizona,
Tucson
ABOLITION
Tuesday,
November
10,
6:30
–
8:00pm
Syrus
Marcus
Ware,
Artist,
Black
Lives
Matter,
Toronto
Tiffany
Lethabo
King,
Georgia
State
University,
Atlanta
Sara
Zewde,
Studio
Zewde,
Harlem,
New
York
City
RIGHT
TO
REMAIN
Tuesday,
January
12,
6:30
–
8:00pm
ANTI-EXTRACTIVISM
Tuesday,
February
9,
6:30
–
8:00pm
Joan
Kuyek,
Mining
Watch
Co-founder,
Ottawa
Martín
Arboleda,
Universidad
Diego
Portales,
Santiago,
Chile
and
other
guests
FOOD
SOVEREIGNTY
Tuesday,
March
9,
6:30
–
8:00pm
