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Join us on Tuesday, 19 May, at 6 pm for the opening of Home Discomforts, curated by Marianna Janowicz (@marianna.jano ). The event will begin with a lecture by Daniel Barber (@abdbcb ), followed by a discussion and a guided tour of the exhibition. How will we feed ourselves in the future? Do laundry? Stay comfortable? Care for one another? With rising sea levels, increasing air temperatures, scarcer resources, and new energy regimes, the future of domesticity will require radical changes in rituals and behaviours: a redesign. What does the market offer today? More efficient air conditioning, smart appliances, faster deliveries — comforts that often shift rather than reduce energy use and labour. Better insulation brings only temporary savings, while washing machines led to more water use and more frequent laundry. The culture of efficiency has failed us. Home Discomforts explores alternative ways of living that rely less on sealed, perfectly controlled indoor environments. The Global North has long overconsumed at the expense of the Global South, and overdeveloped regions may now need to learn to live with less comfort. Could lower consumption, shared resources, and collective care create a future that is less comfortable but ultimately happier? Participants: Ankit Kumar Singh, @danipar__ , @edit.cllctv , HVAC (@lisavanheyden & @enno.poetschke ), @lacolarq , @superfluxstudio & @we_are_takk This exhibition is supported by the University for the Creative Arts and the LINA platform, together with Creative Europe. Poster: @anezka_ciglerova @publikum.design #homediscomforts #exhibition #prague #vipergallery #vipergalleryprague

Apropos of the endless rain, here are a couple of photos of a wet (almost finished) Purchese Street Social Space. 🍁 @dsdha_architecture @stcayouthclub @wemakecamden Photos by Alex Reid

We like our collaborators like we like our buildings. Well-grounded, thoughtfully designed, and feminist at the foundations. Say hello to our latest Emergency Contact, @edit.cllctv 🤍 One of our most precious, long-standing and incredibly talented collaborators.

It was a pleasure to moderate ‘Architecture for a Non-Precarious Future: Voices from Emerging Practice’, an official London Festival of Architecture @londonfestivalofarchitecture panel discussion at @czechcentrelondon featuring curators and architects from the UK and across Europe. Thank you all for joining at the Czech Embassy’s cinema despite the beautiful weather outside! #LFA2025 #voices With Marianna Janowicz (Edit @edit.cllctv , UK), Krištof Hanzlík (Collcoll @collcoll.cc , CZ), Roland Reemaa (LLRRLLRR @llrrllrr_studio , UK/EST) and Maria McLintock (curator @mariaemclintock , formerly Curator of Architecture and Design at the Design Museum). Chaired by Helena Huber-Doudová (curator, Národní galerie Praha @ngprague , CZ). Graphic design of publication: @publikum.design Photos by Marek Bero

OPENING NIGHT OF PUBLIC CARE Last week at Espace Témoin in Geneva, we had the pleasure of welcoming Hannah Rozenberg and Alice Meyer from EDIT Collective. They shared their reflections on space, gender, standards, and care practices, and introduced us to their thoughtful and inspiring project methodology. 📸 @valentine_blaimont @edit.cllctv @alis.meyer @hannahroze — SOIRÉE D’OUVERTURE DE PUBLIC CARE La semaine dernière, nous avons eu le plaisir d’accueillir Hannah Rozenberg et Alice Meyer du collectif EDIT à l’Espace Témoin, à Genève. Elles ont partagé leurs réflexions sur l’espace, le genre, les standards et les pratiques de soin, et nous ont présenté leur brillante méthodologie de projet. 📸 @valentine_blaimont @edit.cllctv @alis.meyer @hannahroze

🟣 Une soirée avec EDIT – conférence du programme Public Care 🟣 An Evening with EDIT – Lecture from the Public Care Program ✨ Nous sommes ravi·e·x·s d’accueillir EDIT, un collectif féministe d’architecture engagé la recherche et la pratique, pour une conférence publique dans le cadre de l’exposition Public Care. EDIT interroge les biais et les hiérarchies persistants inscrits dans l’environnement bâti, à travers des projets allant de l’objet et du film, à la scénographie d’exposition et aux espace publiques. 🌿 Public Care s’inscrit dans Public Affairs, un projet curatorial en trois volets (Public Love, Public Care, Public Dance) qui questionne le rôle de l’espace dans la (re)production des inégalités de genre et de sexe.Cette deuxième session examine comment le soin est spatialisé, invisibilisé, ou confiné, tout en ouvrant des imaginaires interconnectés et solidaires. Public Affairs propose une réflexion d’architecture réaffirmant avec force que « le privé est politique ». 📅 Date : jeudi 24 avril 🕖 Heure : 18h 📍 Lieu : ET–Espace Témoin, Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 10, 1205 Genève Entrée libre – venez touxtes ! — ✨ We’re thrilled to welcome EDIT, a feminist architecture collective engaged in both research and practice, for a public lecture as part of the Public Care exhibition. EDIT investigates the enduring biases and hierarchies embedded in the built environment, through projects ranging from objects and film to exhibition design and public spaces. 🌿 Public Care is part of Public Affairs, a three-part curatorial project (Public Love, Public Care, Public Dance) that explores the role of space in the (re)production of gender and sex-based inequalities. This second session examines how care is spatialized, rendered invisible, or confined— while opening up networks of interdependence and solidarity. Public Affairs offers an architectural reflection that firmly reaffirms the idea that “the personal is political.” Images: 1. Gross Domestic Product, 2019 2. Home Revolution, 2020 3. Laundry Day, a film by Edit, 2021 #EDITcollective #PublicCare #PublicAffairs #FeministArchitecture #CareWork #EspaceTémoin #ArchitecturePolitics #thepersonalispolitical

A new rural hamlet typology sharing infrastructure, domestic labour and agrarian responsibility Hardworking Landscapes, by AOMD, Edit, Periscope, Dion Barrett, Ruth Lang. @edit.cllctv , @periscope_uk Vote for your favourite entry to win #TheDavidsonPrize People's Choice Prize via our link in bio, supported by @Humaniseorg The proposal examines the potential of shared reproductive labour and communal infrastructure in the design of new rural settlements. Starting with the vernacular layout of a hamlet, the project suggests that progressive shared infrastructure can make new rural development sensitive, efficient and sustainable. The project explores the potential of this small but prolific rural settlement to enable national growth. The model is based on the use of high-value greenbelt, areas of natural beauty and protected arable land, while establishing stewards of the bucolic landscape, rather than those with more vested interest in inheritance or conservation for conservation’s sake. A recalibration of the idea of public infrastructure is proposed, using a number of new small communities to form complex networks of collective domestic labour, such as childcare and laundry, which utilise economies of scale, alongside a sharing of resource, trust and responsibility. Owners are expected to have an agrarian responsibility and a collective stewardship. Boundaries are strict and development is progressively dense, utilising the potential scale of vernacular agricultural references. A range of environments, wet and dry, heated and unheated, will provide shared, hardworking spaces, eliminating the need for every household to duplicate spaces and appliances, resulting in lower energy consumption and a lighter environmental impact. See every featured idea on our website!

Some drawings from Purchese Street Open Space, a collaboration with @dsdha_architecture for Camden Council. As our co-design workshops with the STCA youth group progressed, it was clear that seating for different scales of interaction was important to create a space that supported many different needs and moods, from intimate spots for flirting or getting to know new friends, to larger areas for bigger gatherings. We discussed how ball courts can be excluding spaces that are often intimidating and can be divisive across genders. The group thought it was important to offer this as part of the new space, but that its design needed to be more open and inclusive.

Exciting new things coming in 2025 in Somers Town! We’ve been working in collaboration with @dsdha_architecture and @stcayouthclub to build a new social space for teenagers as part of the improved Purchese Street Open Space for @wemakecamden . We co-designed the project with the STCA youth group during 2023. Our co-designers were a mixture of ages and genders, and we devised the workshops to get the group talking about what makes different users feel safe and welcomed in public spaces. We worked with the group to come up with uses and an overall layout, with the final seating design being informed by 1:1 prototypes the group made in their hall.

Our project with People's Museum Somers Town (@aspaceforusnow ) has been submitted for planning! Inspired by Somers Town's social housing and it's one of a kind drying yards for laundry, the project proposes a heritage trail that celebrates this working class history in the public realm of Phoenix Road. Fluted concrete posts topped with ceramic sculptures by artist Gilbert Bayes took centre stage in the yards of the St Pancras Housing estates, speaking to the ambitions for generous shared spaces for daily life and domestic labour. Many of the posts are still standing but the ceramic finials have been lost or stolen. Artist @camilla_bliss is designing three new finials in collaboration with the museum through workshops and conversations with the local community. Each finial will represent a Somers Town personality: Radicals, Reformers, Uncommon People. The posts will be turned reclaimed timber by @i_dannymay , with a light and nimble foundation to fit between tree roots and services without concrete, engineered by @conisbee_uk . Local businesses already string bunting and lighting between trees and shop fronts, cleat hooks on the new posts add to this temporary infrastructure. A digital trail continues around Somers Town, sharing collected local stories and folk tales accompanying augmented reality models of the lost artworks, designed by @csm_news . Funded by @mayorofldn Untold Stories grant and @wemakecamden .

We are very happy to have contributed a chapter to this new book which reimagines the future of architecture. Our text lays out how designing for reproductive labour can be better for the people and for the planet 🌍 More about the publication: Published 100 years ago, Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture was conceived as a way of making sense architecturally of a moment of profound social and technological change. Today, we live at another pivotal moment for architecture and for the wider world. The climate emergency alone requires us to rethink everything we have previously taken for granted about how we conceive and construct buildings. One of the great ironies of Le Corbusier’s messianic vision is that the very thing he so celebrated – unbridled industry – has led us to the climate emergency. Yet, moments of crisis and transformation are also opportunities for overturning conventions, facing uncomfortable truths and forcing disciplinary and societal ‘reset’. What we need is not a new architecture, as Le Corbusier was popularly mistranslated as advocating, but another one: an architecture that is not bound to a single vision or future, but is diverse, pluralist and sustains multiple conversations about the active role that architects might play in the world. Towards Another Architecture brings together contributions from practitioners and thinkers working in a range of fields and geographies to advocate their vision(s) for another architecture. Bold and original, optimistic without being naïve, it offers a space for multiple and sometimes conflicting or competing viewpoints, but which collectively point to the urgency of the situation and the ingenuity of architects in responding to it.

The @lsofarch show is open until Saturday ✨ So we’re proudly sharing some images from our Design Think Tank, Radical Sharing, with @jasmin_yeo @jamie_mcvay @livm_arch @ellaashworth_ @gestrada___ @_christyallen and @hackneycouncil . Using Fellows and Weymouth Court as a site of experimentation, Radical Sharing seeks to re-imagine the structures that govern the housing estate to propose a new model of management that foregrounds reproductive labour and collective stewardship. Addressing issues of housing justice, poor maintenance and the traditionally privatised nature of reproductive labour that devalues this essential work.  With London Borough of Hackney exploring the potential of garage sites on the estate for the delivery of new infill social housing, this project is driven by the proposition of ‘redesigning the block for public luxury’. Ultimately, questioning what the idea of ‘public luxury’ means in the context of Hackney, and in light of the climate crisis, how the use of existing buildings and resource distribution can be re-imagined to aid in more resilient communities.