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The Funambulist magazine

Weaponized infrastructures

“A construction project is worth a battalion” said French General and colonial administrator Hubert Lyautey (1854-1934), a key strategist of French colonialism in Vietnam, Madagascar, and Morocco.

Architecture and colonialism

The two editorial arguments of this issue are simple: colonialism is not an era, it is a system of military/police, legal, administrative, social, and cultural system of domination; and, architecture is not (only) an aesthetic vessel, it is an apparatus organizing and hierarchizing bodies in space.

GUEST COLUMNS: AFROFUTURIST POLITICS: LESS POWER, MORE COMMITMENT

Mawena Yehoussi

De-platform-ization, Ethics and Alternative Social Media :

"Against the totality of networks and corporately owned social media, what are workable strategies and ethical approaches that allow for alternative ways for our social life to emerge?"
http://display.cz/en/events/de-platformization-ethics-and-alternative-social-media

Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing

Key notions of relations, trust, and remediation : https://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/2020/05/20/here-and-now-explorations-in-urgent-publishing/

L’architecture de survie (une philosophie de la pauvreté) - Yona Friedman

"Who has the right to decide, and the power of agency over architecture?
How to ensure this right to those to whom it belongs?
How to do it in a world that is heading towards increasing poverty?
How to survive in such a world?"

Year: 1978 The commission for designing David d’Angers High School enabled Friedman to verify his ideas for self-planning by a group of future users.
In different stages and by a set of rules the users decided on the lay-out of the building.

The complete diagram Themes:
- Self-planning
- principles of Mobile Architecture
- Urban networks