The concluding discussion in the one day Language barriers seminar features Christopher Laing, Thandi Loewenson, Papa Omotayo & Jordan Whitewood-Neal, with Rhiarna Dhaliwal & Calvin Po.
ABOUT LANGUAGE BARRIERS
Language and architecture have a complicated relationship. Criticism, history, news and opinion in print, at events and online: all of these form our thoughts about buildings. This is not just a question of ideas, however, since discourse affects the production of architecture itself.
In this collective gathering, we will discuss the ideological and material factors shaping architectural discourse: the way we discuss buildings, the tools we use to do so, and the conditions under which such writing is produced. One of these factors, race, is the primary focus of the New Architecture Writers programme. Our intention here is to encompass a broader intersection of the different power dynamics at work in discourse about buildings, among them ability, class, gender, geography, and sexuality.
Who is heard and how do we listen? Who gets to write about architecture, and who reads this writing? Who has access to the technical, institutional and conceptual tools that are necessary to produce and consume it? Who pays for the labour of writing? And what can we do to change these structures?
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