Collectivity is a property of things. We have many words to describe the subjective experience of being collected—togetherness, solidarity, belonging—but each admit to the presence of a shared identity. The assembly of people, material, or ideas each in their own way form a collective being. Collecting, as a process, is constitutive of collectivity. In an era marked by the exploitation and extraction of groups, gatherings, and communities, how might collecting and collectivity turn against speculative apparatuses of production, and move toward the collectives we need?
Editors
Nick Axel
Nikolaus Hirsch
Beth Hughes
Collectivity is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism within the context of the “Collective City” thematic exhibition.
Pier Vittorio Aureli co-founded DOGMA in 2002. He teaches at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and is a visiting professor at Yale University.
Ana Džokić cofounded STEALTH.unlimited with Marc Neelen in 2000. With Neelen, Džokic co-authored the recent book Upscaling, Training, Commoning (Jovis, 2018).
Keller Easterling is a writer, designer, and professor at Yale University. Her most recent book, Medium Design (Strelka Press, 2018), inverts the usual emphasis on object and matrix to prompt innovative thought about spatial and non-spatial problems.
Andrés Jaque is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation, a Madrid/New York based practice that brings inclusivity into daily life through architecture.
Jere Kuzmanić (Split/Barcelona) pioneers as architect, urbanist, and researcher of degrowth and new forms of social and environmental responsibility in the field of urban survival.
Leonard Ma is a Canadian architect based in Helsinki. He is a teacher at the New Academy.
Alick M. McLean is a professor emeritus at Syracuse University in Florence, Italy and teaches at The Academy at Penguin Hall.
Mariapaola Michelotto is an architect and researcher. She graduated from the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture with the thesis Città Fabbricaand is currently collaborating with DOGMA in Brussels.
Predrag Milić (Belgrade/Vienna) is a trained architect and urban researcher working between urban development and critical pedagogy, and particularly the oppressed, silenced, and the poor people of Belgrade's urban periphery.
Marc Neelen cofounded STEALTH.unlimited with Ana Džokić in 2000. With Džokic, he co-authored the book Upscaling, Training, Commoning (Jovis, 2018).
Martino Tattara co-founded DOGMA in 2002 and is an assistant professor at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture.
Tuomas Toivonen is a co-foundeer of New Academy, an an education initiative for architecture and urbanism based in Helsinki, and the studio NOW for Architecture and Urbanism.
