Workplace - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Albert Ferré, Nikolaus Hirsch, Megan Marin

Contributors FICTILIS, Denisse Vega de Santiago, Dank Lloyd Wright, Andreas Petrossiants, Alberte Lauridsen, Marianna Janowicz, Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek, Kim Gurney, Samiha Meem, and more…

Over the past five hundred years, two hundred years, one hundred years, thirty years, ten years, year, labor has changed. The way we work—the things we do, the ways and places we do them, who and what we do them with—has transformed. In parallel, so has our understanding of the world, of the city, of architecture, perhaps of life.

Workplace is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Canadian Centre for Architecture within the context of its year-long research project Catching Up With Life.

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12 essays

Labor Unsettlement

Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon

Settlement Many explicate that labor is constructed through settlement, and perhaps the most readily visible and visiblized histories of work, and …

Performing Automation

Kelly Pendergrast

Interior, pizza arcade. Sioux Falls, 1995 or thereabouts. Family groups and clusters of post-soccer-practice tweens sit around napkin-strewn table…

Laboring for Home: Working to Stay, Working to Move

Arvand Pourabbasi and Golnar Abbasi

In the context of contemporary forms of labor, “production” is often discussed and glamorized. But what is overlooked is the exhaustion that follo…

Post Everything

Samiha Meem

“Oh, that’s definitely a post.” I didn’t agree, but I posted it anyways. Not because it was done (it wasn’t), but because I was finished. *…

The Mogul, His Meerkat, and the Meerkat’s Second Life

Kim Gurney

Scene 1: Fantasy Cities I have no idea where I am. The landscape for some time now has looked like a non-place; as unremarkable and replicable as a…

Shelter Against Communism

Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek

Women, War, and Work While housing has long been intimately connected with capitalism via speculative finance, mortgage debt, and property developm…

Slippages, Spillages, and Divides

Alberte Lauridsen and Marianna Janowicz

During the strictest Covid-19 lockdowns in the UK, the continued labor of waste collection workers and supermarket delivery drivers allowed other part…

The Art of Mutual Aid

Andreas Petrossiants

And if the wreckage of this inheritance will not be complete; if notwithstanding the crimes committed during this “civilized” war, we may still b…

We Could All Be Less Complicit

Dank Lloyd Wright

From myriad sources, including the lived experience of our own lives, we know how deeply problematic practices of labor sourcing, organizing, and regu…

The Circus of Essential Work

Denisse Vega de Santiago

Oppressed peoples are always asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity. —Audre Lorde1 On May 28, 2020 at a…

Tracing the Line, or, the Promissory Politics of Climate Change

FICTILIS

Delivery Lines: Amazon’s Supply Chain In 2019 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a critical articulation about contemporary capitalism, akin to Vanderbil…

Editorial

Nick Axel, Albert Ferré, Nikolaus Hirsch, and Megan Marin

Workplace is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Canadian Centre for Architecture within the context of its year-long research project…

Workplace is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Canadian Centre for Architecture within the context of its year-long research project Catching Up With Life.

Contributors

Nick Axel, Albert Ferré, Nikolaus Hirsch, and Megan Marin Editorial
FICTILIS Tracing the Line, or, the Promissory Politics of Climate Change
Denisse Vega de Santiago The Circus of Essential Work
Dank Lloyd Wright We Could All Be Less Complicit
Andreas Petrossiants The Art of Mutual Aid
Alberte Lauridsen and Marianna Janowicz Slippages, Spillages, and Divides
Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek Shelter Against Communism
Kim Gurney The Mogul, His Meerkat, and the Meerkat’s Second Life
Samiha Meem Post Everything
Arvand Pourabbasi and Golnar Abbasi Laboring for Home: Working to Stay, Working to Move
Kelly Pendergrast Performing Automation
Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon Labor Unsettlement