Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention

If you're in London on Monday, 11 June, 3-5pm, please come through to this event featuring the Birkbeck School of Law's Artist in Residence 2017/18 Tings Chak with Goldsmiths, University of London's Nishat Awan and Forensic Architecture's Lorenzo Pezzani!

Friday, April 20, 5-7pm Staircase Cafe Theatre in Hamilton

Léopold Lambert on the "Humanitarian Detention Center" competition: "But this competition does not just allow us to wonder about architects’ responsibility in the enforcement of this social order; it also inadvertently allows us to ponder on what is humanitarianism. The very notion of humanitarian Detention Center that constitutes the explicit program of this competition could indeed appear to many as a contradiction in itself, a detention center being, by definition, at od...ds with the notion of humanitarianism...Humanitarianism does not consists in a political struggle against the violence of its structures. Rather, it claims to embody an apolitical position that mitigate this violence when, in fact, it makes this violence disappear from regimes of visibility, legitimizes it, and ultimately reinforces these structures to which it is fully part of." See more

Thanks to David Moffette for the interview! "We might defend public squares or green spaces, but we don’t realize that the common definition of the public can be extremely exclusionary. For people who are undocumented, Black and brown, homeless, for sex workers, often these public spaces are places where their lives are under threats from police brutality, racial profiling, detention and deportation. The struggle against borders, against capitalist dispossession and exploitation, and for ensuring access to essential public services to all regardless of immigration status is about spatial justice."

i am so moved. have all the feels. am so proud to know and have worked with some of these amazing beings Althea Idea Kwentong Bayan Loretta Miauw Sukie Ma