DISTURBANCE / GATHERING:
Participants will gather around a table of texts, audio and film, immersing our group into the conceptual framework of LANDFALL, building a community, common grounding and vocabulary.
The House We Must Build
Thandi Loewenson & Huda TayobThandi Loewenson & Huda Tayob
The House We Must Build
The House We Must Build / Musha Watinofanira Kuvaka / البيت الذي يجب ان يبني is a scaffold for art and architectural research that draws on anti-imperial world-making practices to build and broadcast narratives of how we might forge other architectures together. From our temporary ground station in Johannesburg, we approach the land from the sites and scenes of its friction against air and water—LANDFALL—and where, in the process, it is nourished by the encounter with weather, materials, people, and ideas from elsewhere.
‣ Landfall‣ Disturbance‣ Transition‣ Landing‣ Duration
Dates & Times
February 17: 12–2PM EST
February 24: 12–2PM EST
February 25: 12–2PM EST
February 26: 12–2PM EST
March 10: 12–2PM EST
LocationOnline
Cost$0
Age18+
LanguageEnglish
MaterialsLaptop with Wi-Fi
Accessibility SupportsClosed-Captioning, Access to Recordings
Max Students10
Course Description
A festival of ideas, this course comprises broadcasts, close-reading, screenings, writing and drawing, peer-review and independent study. Participants will discuss and unpack four approaches to LANDFALL:
—— as disturbance: the gathering storm
—— as transition: touching earth
—— as landing: sight of land
—— and as duration: journey, port of arrival
Together, we devise ideas and methodological approaches that trouble the dominance of borders, colonial apparatus, and land within imaginaries of emancipation.
Participants will develop a folio that interprets/records/responds to prompts from the course. We will meet for four intensive sessions in February, with a final concluding gathering in March.
Session 1
Session 2
TRANSITION / WRITING:
As the pressure drops, warm surface water is pulled into circulation, participants look across global oceanic systems of weather as camouflage, where water meets land, law, and trade.
Session 3
LANDING / DRAWING:
Land is in sight, unresolved and unsettled, an archive of pasts still present. Participants will engage practices of drawing out these frictions, re-making, mark-making, and recording.
Session 4
DURATION / REVIEWING:
Building and nurturing community, this session asks participants to work through peer-review and co-editing of folios.
Session 5
REFLECTIONS / GATHERING AGAIN:
A close reading and collective review of the work that has been produced, ideas deposited by the storm, and proposals for future work to come.
Teacher(s)
Thandi Loewenson
Thandi Loewenson is an architectural designer/researcher who mobilizes design, fiction, and performance to stoke embers of emancipatory political thought and fires of collective action, and to feel for the contours of other, possible worlds.
www.thandiloewenson.com
Huda Tayob
Huda Tayob is a South African architect and architectural historian with an interest in migrant, minor, and subaltern architectures. Her work extends to public platforms and open-access curricula which engage with archival silence and architectural ghosts.
www.hudatayob.com