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co-creating worlds, stories and architectures that structurally give form to our longings, resistance, joy, desire and collective imagination
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The Radical Precedent of Grandad’s House (opens the original)
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What if the precedents for the institutions we need are not primarily other institutions? What if they are homes, gardens, kitchens, places of worship, barber shops, sound systems, allotments, front rooms, mutual-aid practices and other spaces communities built because survival required them to hold social, economic, cultural and spiritual life together?Subscribe nowWhat Must Sustain?When I started sharing the concept of ABUELOS, I wasn’t thinking about Grandad’s
The Cost of Leadership (opens the original)
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I received my first death threat in my twenties.It was in response to a tweet. I had written something about believing the world could be different. I don’t remember the exact words anymore, which perhaps says something about the absurdity of it. The proposition itself was unremarkable: another world was possible; the conditions we had inherited were neither inevitable nor permanent. Someone decided that imagining otherwise was reason enough to threaten my life.Thank you for keeping this
Don't Despair, Participate... (opens the original)
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My hope has been wavering. Perhaps this is an odd way to begin this offering. My work, after all, is rooted in hope and imagination. I spend much of my time inviting people to think beyond the limits of what exists; to imagine neighbourhoods and communities differently; to believe that culture can change the material conditions of a place; to make the case that buildings, land, archives, gardens, infrastructures, spaces of connection and hospitality can become the foundations of more just future
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