Journal of Architectural Education

JAE 78.2 “Everyday Arctics” features the work of Greenlandic photographer Inuuteq Storch. The featured photographs highlight Storch’s upbringing in Sisimiut, the second-largest city in Kalaallit Nunaat. Visit https://bit.ly/3DG3Ri7 for a closer look. (Image Credit: Inuuteq Storch) #JAE #JournalOfArchitecturalEducation #Greenland #Transitions #Worlding 

“Daggett concludes with an invitation that ‘a radical planet politics, if it seeks to contest ecomodernist claims, needs its own politics of pleasure.’ In an echo to Daggett’s invitation, the authors of this Educators’ Roundtable were invited to contribute a short text that picks up on the possibilities of a post-carbon, post-work politics.” Contributors include: Alla Vronskaya, Ruo Jia, Ph.D., Ethel Baraona Pohl, Namita Vijay Dharia, Fallon Samuels Aidoo, PhD, Ilze Wolff, and the Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative (FAAC). Visit https://lnkd.in/eSKMz4Pw to read JAE 78.2 “The Afterlife of Energy.” (Image Credit: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and Justin Knight, FAAC, Fallon Samuels Aidoo, Wolff Architects) #JAE #JournalOfArchitecturalEducation #Feminist #PostCarbon #Worlding #Energy #AcademicJournal

From the Journal of Architectural Education's vault, and the Infidelities issue - a piece by Professor Nic Coetzer, about South Africa's first independent, non-profit School of Architecture - SEA (School of Explorative Architecture), in light of ideas that were galvanized by the Rhodes Must Fall protests at the University of Cape Town in 2015. Give it a read - open access - here:

In a discussion with artists Amy Stelly and Virginia Hanusik, JAE 78.2 theme editor Billy Fleming explores their various practices and representational politics within the context of wording. Throughout the interview, Fleming highlights Hanusik’s work, “Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana,” which Stelly contributed to. Visit https://lnkd.in/eediFQen to read the full interview. (Image Credit: Virginia Hanusik, Amy Stelly, and Scott Haven) #JAE #JournalOfArchitecturalEducation #NewOrleans #Worlding #Book #Extraction #Fossil #Climate 

“In sum, Roane’s Dark Agoras highlights a portal for design practice: a tangible tradition of world-building that works at cross-purposes to top-down imaginings of the contemporary city.” In the latest JAE Online Review, Alissa Ujie Diamond, assistant professor of urban and regional planning at the State University of New York at Buffalo, explores J.T. Roane's debut book “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.” Diamond’s review looks at each chapter and highlights Roane’s approach to visualizing Black worldmaking practices that have always existed alongside and in tension with the plantation and the capitalist city. Visit https://lnkd.in/e3BBweNp to read the full review. (Image Credit: New York University Press, 2023) #JAE #JAEOnlineReview #JAEOline #GreatMigration #BlackAuthors #AfricanaStudies #Cities #Genealogy

"In his Turner Prize acceptance speech, Jesse Darling took the time to criticize narrow conceptions of art, market dynamics, and elitism and then pulled a Palestinian flag out of his pocket. Making clear connections between elitism, art markets, prizes, global capital, ableism, apocalypse and militarism, Darling’s gesture reminds us about what is at stake in recalibrations of the meaning of falling, collapsing, demolishing, and destituting. While Israel, backed by the US and Germany, brutally removes Indigenous people from their land, wastes the land in order to resettle, rebuilds and wipes away all traces of the original inhabitants, it becomes increasingly important to counter these brutal operations not just with protest and noise but with our own demolition operations. We need, Darling’s work proposes, to unmake the institutional structures that make political speech so hard right now, that line up powerful governments behind conquerors and that force us to accept poor governance over alternative modes of sociability."⁠ ⁠ In JAE 78.2 "Unworlding," author and professor of gender studies and English at Columbia University, Jack Halberstam, delves into the topic of unworlding as a philosophy and an anti-anti-utopian idea through the lens of trans and queer art. ⁠ ⁠ Visit https://lnkd.in/eN5RMwKt to read the full essay. ⁠ ⁠ (Image Credit: Jesse Darling, Gravity Road, 2020.)⁠ ⁠ #JAE #Worlding #Energy #Transitions #QueerStudies #TransStudies #QueerArt #Unworlding #ReadMore 

From the Journal of Architectural Education's vault: Thabisile Griffin's "Lessons from the Black Indigenous Atlantic," from our Reparations! issue - theme edited by Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski (+Ema Yuizarix) and V. Mitch McEwen. Dr. Griffin is a historian, specializing in colonial insecurity, Black indigeneity, racialization, and the emergence of property in the Atlantic world, working at SCI-Arc. Check it out here:

 Another great piece from the Journal of Architectural Education. Jordan Whitewood-Neal's wonderful piece"Worship the Lift Engineer," which discusses a little-known history of the Architectural Association’s (AA) short-lived Environmental Access course in the 1990s, a course that was designed not just ‘for’ but vitally ‘constituted of’ disabled people. It reflects on the legacy and implications of the course founder—Andrew Walker, a well-known tutor at the AA who was injured in an accident and wheelchair-bound for the remainder of his life. The course, viewed through the allegory of the lift at 36 Bedford Square, is a meditation on repair, maintenance, and inheritance—of institutional values, priorities, and the need for reparative curricula. Jordan's piece was part of the "Pedagogies for a Broken World," issue, theme edited by Ana Miljacki, Igor Marjanovic and Jay Cephas.

Every autumn semester, Professors Milica Topalović and Nazlı Tümerdem teach the theoretical course “Architecture of Territory: Territorial Design in Theories, Histories, and Projects” at ETH Zürich. In JAE 78.2 “Our Energy,” Tümerdem highlights the course to demonstrate how architectural and design educators can offer alternative approaches to teaching and un/learning. Throughout the piece, she details three student exercises—inspired by guest speakers—along with a selection of student responses. By sharing this pedagogical framework, the paper seeks to initiate a discussion around energy entanglements and imagine novel ways of designing our collective and equitable energy futures. Visit https://lnkd.in/ejgWCrqA to read the full paper. (Image Credit: Author’s archive) #JAE #JournalOfArchitecturalEducation #ETHZurich #FutureEnergyLandscapes #EnergyTransitions #EnergyPedagogies #PostFossilDesign

"In preparing for conflicts of an optimistic new generation—access to water, to energy, to security—what spaces will made accessible up against privatized lands of a shrinking inhabitable world?⁠ ⁠ In JAE 78.2 “Ascension: Worlding in the Wake of Island Imaginaries,” authors Jeffrey S Nesbit and Keaton Bruce examine the history of the volcanic Ascension Island. The essay discusses the island's history and explores how it may mirror our future world.⁠ ⁠ Visit https://bit.ly/4fVoLbw to read the full essay.⁠ ⁠ (Image Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)⁠ ⁠ ##JAE #JournalOfArchitecturalEducation #Worlding #Infrastructure #Urbanization #Islands #ExtraState"