The second Architecture as Public Concern Lecture supports the recent creation of the CCA Research Network, an entity bringing together alumni from almost four decades of research programs at the CCA. This annual lecture explores the theme of the 2024 Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship, which asks “where does the work land?”. It also aligns with the ambition of the CCA Research Network to continue the conversations our Fellows began during their residencies at the CCA, and to chart collectively the issues related to the global built environment that are at the forefront of our work.
This second lecture is a dialogue between Jane Mah Hutton and Thandi Loewenson investigating reparation as a concrete and conceptual practice that can centre land and the claims it makes on behalf of communities. Their conversation will foreground how communities can participate in the questions we craft as researchers, examining the politics and places of these communities from a more ground-level perspective by looking at sites where assumptions about institutional privilege, colonial survivance, and structural racism often coalesce. Following Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò’s recent call in Reconsidering Reparations to engage with reparation as a “construction project,” the 2024 Architecture as Public Concern Lecture considers how research practices are intimately and sometimes unconsciously tied to land-based paradigms of enclosure, refusal, extraction, and repair, ones that that demand critique, renewal, and occasional revaluing.
To learn more: https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/96397/2024-architecture-as-public-concern-lecture-where-does-the-work-land