I’d like to extend a warm invitation to the launch of my latest zine, created in collaboration with Inkling Studio @theinkling.press , as part of the Risograph Zine Book Launch at KL Art Book Fair. I’ll be discussing the zine, which is based on my field trips to Vienna, where I visited several social housing schemes.
Date: 7 December 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 1:30 PM
Venue: Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall 1, Jalan Maharajalela, Kampung Attap, 50150 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
There will also be over 100 booths showcasing a wide range of books to explore. I look forward to seeing you there!
I’d like to extend a warm invitation to the launch of my latest zine, created in collaboration with Inkling Studio @theinkling.press , as part of the Risograph Zine Book Launch at KL Art Book Fair. I’ll be discussing the zine, which is based on my field trips to Vienna, where I visited several social housing schemes.
Date: 7 December 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 1:30 PM
Venue: Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall 1, Jalan Maharajalela, Kampung Attap, 50150 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
There will also be over 100 booths showcasing a wide range of books to explore. I look forward to seeing you there tomorrow!
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我和這位作者 @cheaheevon 是老友，她是一位熱忱的建築老師。一向來都知道她對社會住宅這個題材特別有興趣，因此決定找她合作。有興趣可以到 @pcf.eventoffice 來交流交流哦！
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《Right to Housing》是一本透過她的視角，探索社會住宅的潛力的視覺書籍。以維也納社區空間的攝影之旅，挑戰對經濟適用房的汙名化，探索資源共享的價值。
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Right to Housing, is a visual book that explores the potential of social housing through her perspective. Through a photographic journey of Vienna’s communal spaces, it challenges the stigma surrounding affordable housing and explores the value of resource sharing.
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Right to Housing:
Alternative Housing Realities in Vienna
3 Colours Riso
130x185mm / 24p
Ink & Impulse 1.0
A Riso zine collaboration project
Created by the author;
produced and distributed by Inkling Studio.
Honored to share that our team (Sandy + Toby + Ee Von) was shortlisted for the Venice Biennale 2027 UK-Malaysia collaboration with our proposal 'Pluriculture: Sowing Tomorrow'! 🎉
Our work examines the complex socio-cultural histories of rubber and oil palm plantations, exploring how post-colonial productive landscapes shape the UK and Malaysia today. Born from years of research, our curation asks vital questions:
How do we reclaim ancestral knowledge lost to extractive practices?
How do we forge reparative pathways toward regenerative, socially and ecologically just futures through acts of care?
This journey continues, and we're grateful for this invaluable experience. Thank you @britisharts@labiennale
Congratulations to the winning team! Looking forward to see your vision unfold!
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page 207: How can a designer be designed to be a provider of care via the designing of things that ontologically care? The answer to this question requires acknowledging that a new kind of designer depends upon the arrival of a transformed habitus… It requires an understanding of design’s implication in the state of the world and the worlds within it. To gain this understanding means fully grasping the scale and impact of design as an ontological force of and in the world in its making and unmaking… Acquiring such knowledge leads the proto-designer to learn how to read what is brought into being by design casually. Thereafter, what design serves is the creation of a future with a future.
page 23: Highlighting democratic values in overlooked historical examples, for instance, as well as studying antidemocratic practices past and present, can offer a solid basis for more in-depth future work. Tying this work to a collaborative atmosphere within the classroom or the studio, while not necessary or appropriate in every situation, may help to substitute the hard work of cooperation for the commercial norm of competition… Learning differently about the technical conditions under which built environment professionals work can therefore mean unlearning those assumptions by understanding how they have been naturalised. It can also mean recognising that laws, markets and meanings are historical things that can be changed, albeit with great difficulty and only in a collective fashion.
page 169: The interactive and horizontal view on the making of architecture becomes a referential element for how to conceive a project, move within it, and further develop it, always in direct contact with the community around it. Placing at the forefront the common needs means transforming them into a project brief. For this reason, having to work locally and in direct proximity to a certain community is the necessary condition to ensure a gradual development of an area of the city over time. Architecture acts not only as a means of social transformation, but as a way to establish a bilateral dialogue with other organisations and cooperatives in the area, with the goal of creating a responsive and active network of people.
page 23: We have re-examined architectural typology especially in vernacular architecture from a spatial practice point of view, rather than looking at form or composition. We perceive typology an integration of different considerations of natural behaviours, of people’s behaviours, of social systems, etc., as one physical entity. Within this synthesis, there is something we can only call “architectural intelligence.” The results might vary based on adaptations to different social, economic, or physical conditions. Architectural intelligence is accessible to anyone; it can be understood as a commonality of architecture. One typology can adapt to new conditions while maintaining the intelligence established through past conditions.
page 89: Dialogue about the transport and proliferation of invasive and pathogenic marine species first blossomed with the shipping industry. Because of a ship’s need to pump ballast water in or out while in port, for stability and manoeuvrability, they have become notorious vectors in the spread of new species from one coastal location to the next.
page 260: The idea that the home is increasingly permeable begins not with the internet and social media but with media itself - the old-fashioned kind. One could trace this phenomenon right back to the arrival of radio in our homes in the 1920s. Already there was the sense, remarked upon by Heidegger and others, that the private realm was no longer completely distinct from the public, as home resounded with signals from the outside world… The porous interior, then, takes multiple forms. It is not that the home is merging with the public realm, although that is partially true, but that the private realm us being exposed on several fronts.
page 15: Hitler, Stalin, Mao: master countrysiders. But for AMO, their darkness wasn’t just deep; they left a playbook for resurfacing the countryside. Bloodshed and genocide was their wheelhouse, but their politics was also capable of landscaping. AMO calls it “political redesign.”
