Paprika!
Volume 9, Issue 3
12–01–23Abolition in Practice?
This issue of Paprika! invited architects, designers, artists, educators, students, and activists to help us break from the death-dealing logics of abstraction and accumulation. And, instead, envision abolitionist architectural practices. The conversation emerged from a collective recognition that the inherited disciplinary tools and techniques at our disposal remain insufficient for confronting the task at hand—that is, the creation of a world unbound by the strictures of property, policing, and prisons. If racial capitalism redefines worlds in a way that unravels relationships of interdependence, then how might an abolitionist spatial praxis function to repair, renew, and reconstruct these broken bonds?
Collaboration with Lobbin Liu.
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