This year I had the privilege to see, hear, read and write a lot, even though the pain and frustration of an unjust present did wear me down. I dedicated thinking to minor spaces, tool sheds, counter archives, the archipelagic: the messy, generative, and marginalized territories of architectural and archival practice. From editorial projects that challenge institutional norms to personal essays on water and kinship, it has been a year of deep communal effort to bring conversations to printed/published form (which often takes LONG!)
The release of the “Collecting Otherwise: Manuals” and “Remapping Collaborations.” at the Nieuwe Instituut These publications function as toolkits for practitioners looking to navigate the bureaucratic and interpersonal dynamics of international collaboration, as well as toolshed thinking for archival care.
I had the pleasure of engaging in some nourishing conversations. In “They asked me to design a house, I asked them to design a home,” edited by Common Ground and published by Set Margins I spoke about tools for a feminist design practice. More recently, in Vers Beton I discussed why feminist design knowledge, though long-standing, is so often marginalized and why we must keep fighting for its visibility.
I joined the editorial board of OASE journal.
And, I wrote about my research, in academic or more essayistic form
“Connected through Water: Parables for Coexistence”: In VOLUME 67: Worshiping
“How We Made Noise”: For this Onomatopee publication, I contributed a chapter reflecting on our design for Buro Stedelijk.
Contributions to Built/Unbuilt, and Connections as Method. Beatrice Leanza and Maryam Al Noaimi, with KoozArch for the Saudi National Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
“Architecture of Development: The Bouwcentrum as Broker of Dutch Building Knowledge”: this research dives into the legacy of the Bouwcentrum in countries of the Global Majority. First presented at the Jaap Bakema Study Center Conference
“Becoming Counter: Reading ILAUD Against the Grain” in This Is Not A Summer School published by gtaVerlag
I look forward to seeing how these ideas travel in the new year!