Archinect - News 2024-11-24T02:09:42-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150311302/the-architecture-lobby-s-free-abc-school-is-accepting-registrations The Architecture Lobby's free ABC School is accepting registrations Paul Petrunia 2022-05-26T19:14:00-04:00 >2022-05-27T13:34:20-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e2/e2d3a739be3ff4d36856aef74bf117de.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/370511/architecture-lobby" target="_blank">The Architecture Lobby</a>'s&nbsp;Academia Working Group has announced this summer's <a href="https://abc.architecture-lobby.org/" target="_blank">Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School</a>, building upon <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150261275/the-architecture-lobby-launches-a-virtual-summer-program-tackling-capitalism-labor-and-practice-within-architecture" target="_blank">last year's focus on&nbsp;Capitalism, Labor, and Collectives</a>. This year's workshop, taking place virtually July 18-23, is structured around the academic "studio" environment.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>As the pedagogical setting in which most of an architecture student&rsquo;s and teacher&rsquo;s time and resources are focused, studio will be explored as a key site in which to test how organizing and action for change can become foundational in architectural practice and posit other roles for the architect beyond the &lsquo;designer.&rsquo; &nbsp;As a beginning prompt, the ABC asks: how do we understand studio to support and encourage activist organization? How might design be taught in ways that do not perpetuate and reproduce capitalist exploitation?&nbsp;</em><br></p> <p>The virtual workshop will ask participants to develop strategies for replacing traditional studios with new models that can contribute to positive change in t...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/150261275/the-architecture-lobby-launches-a-virtual-summer-program-tackling-capitalism-labor-and-practice-within-architecture The Architecture Lobby launches a virtual summer program tackling capitalism, labor, and practice within architecture Katherine Guimapang 2021-04-27T13:23:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a3/a3001c50605c45b0b801c5f627a226a9.gif" border="0" /><p>Advocates of social and structural change within architecture and professional practice, the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/370511/architecture-lobby" target="_blank">Architecture Lobby</a> has announced the launch of a new online summer program that will address three themes: capitalism, labor, and collective practice.&nbsp;</p> <p>The&nbsp;<a href="https://abc.architecture-lobby.org/" target="_blank">Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC School)</a>, invites students, faculty, practitioners, and members of various publics in all parts of the world to "interrogate the structures and systems of power."&nbsp;Starting on Saturday, June 19, 2021, each theme will be discussed and broken down into a 2-hr live session every Saturday for six weeks. The Architecture Lobby adds, "each theme has two components: debates stimulated by lessons from people whose work is central to the week's theme and salons for discussing the outcomes of design assignments pertinent to that theme."</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f9/f96ba92e655a3a329598c77f4a404cf1.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f9/f96ba92e655a3a329598c77f4a404cf1.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy of The Architecture Lobby</figcaption></figure><p>During a time of much-needed reform and the dismantling of inequitable work ethics, the Architecture Lobby has been champions of change withi...</p>