Puerto Rico
Summer trade-school
Loudreaders is pleased to announce the participants of the first on-site iteration of its trade school of architecture.
The ten-day multimedia program includes sessions, interventions, and workshops by Nadia Huggins (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Isabelle Jolicoeur (Haiti), Comunal / Jesica Amescua Carrera & Mariana Ordóñez Grajales (Mexico), Mark Raymond (Trinidad & Tobago / GSA Johannesburg), Marcos Barinas (Dominican Republic), Jason Fitzroy Jeffers (Barbados / USA), Estudio Ele Siete / Ching Ling Ho, Elvin Diaz (Dominican Republic), Island City Lab / Dorraine Duncan and Jhordan Channer (Jamaica), Alice Grandoit-Šutka (USA / Haiti /Denmark), Post-Novis (WAI Architecture Think Tank / Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski, Rose Florian, Hilary Wiese, Christopher Rey Perez, Holly Craig, Coco Allred, Ophelia S. Chan, Luis Othoniel Rosa) and Puerto Rico-based practices and authors including Mara Olivieri, La Impresora / Nicole Delgado and Amanda Hernandez, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, Regner Ramos, Rocio Zambrana, and Julio Ramos.
Workshops and events will be held in a temporary library/workshop designed by Post-Novis in the gallery of the School of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico.
Enrollment for the program is free and open to the general public, students and professionals across disciplines. Online enrollment ends in June 1. To apply go here.
From Land Grab to Landback: Architecture and Positions on Land
Fall symposium: Scholars, designers, artists, authors, planners and activists are invited to submit proposals to participate in From Land Grab to Landback: Architecture and Positions on Land.
From land grab to landback is a transdisciplinary and transatlantic symposium and multimedia platform that investigates and offers critical perspectives that tie architecture across different scales to urgent questions about land, territory, property, sovereignty, ecology, and life. In response to planetary-scale calls for social and ecological justice, architecture is called to confront its legacy as the material manifestation of systems of power, occupation, territorialization, extraction, capture, identity, development, and modernity. Drawing from the work, research, and practices of leading international designers, planners, artists, political-scientists, anthropologists, scholars, journalists, philosophers, and activists, the symposium provides an intersectional approach to questions about land, and the many struggles that ensue during an era of technological escalation and ecological urgency. Through a series of talks, film screenings, roundtable discussions, and workshops From Landgrab to Land back: architecture and positions on land engages with many temporalities while looking at the past and present of critical questions on land and architecture. The symposium offers a platform for the presentation and dissemination of critical imaginaries operating in the immediate and distant future.
Loudreaders is co-organizing the symposium with Department of Architecture at Iowa State University with support from the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, the School of Architecture of the Universidad de Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, Graduate School of Architecture at Johannesburg. The symposium is part of a series of events, exhibitions, roundtables, and publications to be celebrated in Ames (USA), Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico), and Johannesburg (South Africa).
Please submit your abstract and/or proposal by June 20 to contact@loudreaders.com, subject: land symposium application, including your name, affiliation, and contact information in a pdf (two mb max).
Loudreaders
Loudreaders is a free and accessible platform of public architectural pedagogy and trade school exploring spatial and land practices and imaginaries at the intersection of society, culture, and ecology. A planetary school with roots in the Caribbean, Loudreaders engages through networks of intellectual solidarity the many fields, lands, territories, narratives, journeys, and imaginations that make and remake a dynamic, historic, and evolving geopolitical network of landscapes and peoples. Following the concept of vocational education, since its foundation in 2020 the Trade School offers ‘how-to’ workshops and loudreading sessions, as well as the study of critical and affirmative thinking by designers, artists, architects, spatial practitioners, activists, philosophers, creative writers, and scholars.
Loudreaders is a 501c3 supported by the Mellon Foundation and re:arc Institute.
