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ABC School Closing Plenary 2

Nurturing Equal Value for All

ABC School Closing Plenary 1

From the Ground Up: Building Solidarity in Somerville MA through Aspirational Design

ABC Hub Workshopping Event

ABC Hub Hive Mind

Demotic Ritual Practices: What Do You Reckon?

Organizing Architectural Labor for a Just Transition

The Organizer's Guide to Architecture Education

Where the facade bends — on narratives and fiction in architecture

Everyday Metabolism

Architectural Workers United: Organizing Unions within Architecture

At a certain point, we will dream about housing

Show us your Practice! An open Pecha Kucha

We good?

Architectures of Emergency. Responses on the Hatay province after the Türkiye-Syria earthquake

A Dialogue (Beyond Architecture) on Growth-Centered Capitalism

Environmental Retrofit: An Academic Journey

Architecture in the Plasticene - Milliken and the AIA

Unmaking Capital: Alternative Practices in the Global South

We Good? With pre:fab platform

ABC School Opening Plenary 2 - Have fun, Be in community, Build something together

ABC School Opening Plenary 1 - Have fun, Be in community, Build something together

ABC School Happy Hour: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Closing Plenary

Together We Dream

Seeing, Hearing, Eating, Drawing, and All of the Above

Community After Collapse

Decentre - Deconstruct - Design (?)

The Night School: FREE STUDIO

Questioning the Nature of Status in Architecture

Rethinking Property Relations: Politicizing Site Analysis

Engaging Communities in the Design Studio: Considerations for Accountability from Five Case Studies

The Night School: Community After Collapse

“Ours to hack and to own”: Open-source Strategies and the Pedagogy of Potential

Software, Skills, Licenses, Dependencies

FREE STUDIO: Liberation as Praxis

Student Organizing Across Syllabi and Project Briefs

Crafting an Institution for Free Education: A San Diego Case Study

On Pedagogical Transparency

Collectivized Pedagogies

'Production Studies' Perspectives on Remaking Studio

Online Collaboration Technologies and Their Implications for Post-Pandemic Studio Learning and Teaching Practices

Opening Plenary

Huri Te Ao - Forefronting Indigenous Knowledge and Regenerative Practices

ABC Facilitator Q&A 

ABC School

Thank you for your involvement in ABC 2022. Below are the key responsibilities of the facilitator role, and the community guidelines practiced by The Architecture Lobby. By participating in this year’s session as a facilitator you agree to consider these tenets in the running of your session. Please be in touch if you have any questions or concerns about this agreement.
 
In advance of the session
 
All facilitators will communicate with their Lobby organizers as requested by those organizers and will keep the organizers abreast of the who, what, when, and how of their session.
 
All facilitators will submit their proposed schedule for their 2 hour workshop session to their Lobby organizers at least 2 days in advance of their session.
 
The session itself
Lobby organizers will introduce facilitators at the beginning of the session. After that, it is up to the facilitator to conduct the meeting and invite the participants into the session and its framework.
Besides our hope that each facilitator will start their session by acknowledging the usurped indigenous land that they are speaking from, here are protocols that we in the Lobby have come to trust, and we encourage facilitators to follow:
 
Discussion Meeting Guidelines
●      Democracy and organizing is messy and that’s OK
●      Assume good faith and positive intent
●      Listen very carefully to what others are saying
●      Request the use of “stack” in the chat function to call on people
●      Respect the spirit of the progressive stack (marginal voices brought to the top of the stack line)
●      Use “I” statements, don’t assume you’re speaking for others
●      Acknowledge and respect people’s pronouns - and if you are comfortable, display your own pronouns in your zoom ‘name’
●      Respect the agenda and people’s time
Zoom Etiquette + Stack
●      Keep your video on and request the same of the participants; if they must step away, ask them to turn their videos off.
●      Ask participants to mute their microphone when they’re not speaking
●      Ask participants to respect the speakers and keep chat to ‘everyone’ to a minimum
 
Time Management
●      Keep tabs of the time that the panel speakers are taking and ensure participants have time to contribute.
●      Remember that each session should put forward the specific “learning objectives'' to be enacted; sessions are not for complaints or mere analysis. Time should be allotted for this at the end if it hasn’t been organically woven into the discussion.
Beyond the Session
●      We hope that facilitators will attend more than their one session, but in any case that they will attend the final synthesis session on Saturday July 23, 4-6pm EDT. If the head facilitator cannot be there, identify a participant to report on the session and its one sentence learning objective and the discussions leading up to its formulation.
●      We hope that facilitators will continue after the session in helping us compile a strategic “how to” guide for redirecting studio education and from there, encouraging a new, more empowered architectural worker.

<div class="mirror-content">​Thank you for your involvement in ABC 2022. Below are the key responsibilities of the facilitator role, and the community guidelines practiced by The Architecture Lobby. By participating in this year’s session as a facilitator you agree to consider these tenets in the running of your session. Please be in touch if you have any questions or concerns about this agreement.​ ​In advance of the session​ ​All facilitators will communicate with their Lobby organizers as requested by those organizers and will keep the organizers abreast of the who, what, when, and how of their session.​ ​All facilitators will submit their proposed schedule for their 2 hour workshop session to their Lobby organizers at least 2 days in advance of their session.​ ​The session itself​Lobby organizers will introduce facilitators at the beginning of the session. After that, it is up to the facilitator to conduct the meeting and invite the participants into the session and its framework.​Besides our hope that each facilitator will start their session by acknowledging the usurped indigenous land that they are speaking from, here are protocols that we in the Lobby have come to trust, and we encourage facilitators to follow:​ ​Discussion Meeting Guidelines​●      Democracy and organizing is messy and that’s OK​●      Assume good faith and positive intent​●      Listen very carefully to what others are saying​●      Request the use of “stack” in the chat function to call on people​●      Respect the spirit of the progressive stack (marginal voices brought to the top of the stack line)​●      Use “I” statements, don’t assume you’re speaking for others​●      Acknowledge and respect people’s pronouns - and if you are comfortable, display your own pronouns in your zoom ‘name’​●      Respect the agenda and people’s time​Zoom Etiquette + Stack​●      Keep your video on and request the same of the participants; if they must step away, ask them to turn their videos off.​●      Ask participants to mute their microphone when they’re not speaking​●      Ask participants to respect the speakers and keep chat to ‘everyone’ to a minimum​ ​Time Management​●      Keep tabs of the time that the panel speakers are taking and ensure participants have time to contribute.​●      Remember that each session should put forward the specific “learning objectives&#x27;&#x27; to be enacted; sessions are not for complaints or mere analysis. Time should be allotted for this at the end if it hasn’t been organically woven into the discussion.​Beyond the Session​●      We hope that facilitators will attend more than their one session, but in any case that they will attend the final synthesis session on Saturday July 23, 4-6pm EDT. If the head facilitator cannot be there, identify a participant to report on the session and its one sentence learning objective and the discussions leading up to its formulation.​●      We hope that facilitators will continue after the session in helping us compile a strategic “how to” guide for redirecting studio education and from there, encouraging a new, more empowered architectural worker.</div>

Thank you for your involvement in ABC 2022. Below are the key responsibilities of the facilitator role, and the community guidelines practiced by The Architecture Lobby. By participating in this year’s session as a facilitator you agree to consider these tenets in the running of your session. Please be in touch if you have any questions or concerns about this agreement.

All facilitators will communicate with their Lobby organizers as requested by those organizers and will keep the organizers abreast of the who, what, when, and how of their session.

All facilitators will submit their proposed schedule for their 2 hour workshop session to their Lobby organizers at least 2 days in advance of their session.

Lobby organizers will introduce facilitators at the beginning of the session. After that, it is up to the facilitator to conduct the meeting and invite the participants into the session and its framework.

Besides our hope that each facilitator will start their session by acknowledging the usurped indigenous land that they are speaking from, here are protocols that we in the Lobby have come to trust, and we encourage facilitators to follow:

●      Democracy and organizing is messy and that’s OK

●      Assume good faith and positive intent

●      Listen very carefully to what others are saying

●      Request the use of “stack” in the chat function to call on people

●      Respect the spirit of the progressive stack (marginal voices brought to the top of the stack line)

●      Use “I” statements, don’t assume you’re speaking for others

●      Acknowledge and respect people’s pronouns - and if you are comfortable, display your own pronouns in your zoom ‘name’

●      Respect the agenda and people’s time

●      Keep your video on and request the same of the participants; if they must step away, ask them to turn their videos off.

●      Ask participants to mute their microphone when they’re not speaking

●      Ask participants to respect the speakers and keep chat to ‘everyone’ to a minimum

●      Keep tabs of the time that the panel speakers are taking and ensure participants have time to contribute.

●      Remember that each session should put forward the specific “learning objectives'' to be enacted; sessions are not for complaints or mere analysis. Time should be allotted for this at the end if it hasn’t been organically woven into the discussion.

●      We hope that facilitators will attend more than their one session, but in any case that they will attend the final synthesis session on Saturday July 23, 4-6pm EDT. If the head facilitator cannot be there, identify a participant to report on the session and its one sentence learning objective and the discussions leading up to its formulation.

●      We hope that facilitators will continue after the session in helping us compile a strategic “how to” guide for redirecting studio education and from there, encouraging a new, more empowered architectural worker.

Detailed Facilitators’ Agreement

PROMPT
If the first iteration of T-A-L ABC School in 2021 was about identifying the failures of architecture education and better understanding the capitalist structures that define it, the 2022 version is about proposing strategies that will lead to change.
For the past year, T-A-L Academia Working Group, the team behind the 2022 ABC School, has focused on the work of organizing—activating community momentum—behind methods for teaching and learning architecture beyond capitalism. We are asking all facilitators to think of their workshop as a first step in organizing towards actionable objectives for architecture education.
As the pedagogical setting that absorbs the majority of architecture students’ and teachers’ time and resources, studio is explored as a key site in which to test how organizing and action for change can become foundational in architectural practice and lead to alternate/expanded appreciations of architecture and architects. As a beginning prompt, the ABC School asks: how do we understand studio to support and encourage activist organization? How might design be taught in ways that do not perpetuate and reproduce capitalist exploitation?
WORKSHOP DELIVERABLES
We are aiming for workshops that are more than one-offs. We are aspiring to workshops that are generators, charged with producing starting points for ongoing collaboration and development. To encourage this, the Academia Working Group is requesting the following from each session:
A One-Sentence Architecture Beyond Capitalism “Learning Objective”
In architectural education, “learning objectives” are typically determined and written into syllabi to describe what is to be learned. Accrediting bodies (such as NAAB, RIBA, etc.) rely on this approach for setting criteria for academic content and student achievement.
In contrast, the Academia Working Group is interested in developing objectives for advancing architecture education in and beyond capitalism. Each facilitator, then, is asked to use their workshop as a collaborative platform for developing an actionable learning objective for architecture education. In other words, what is one thing that architecture education needs to address, convey, or become? Consider, too, how this objective becomes actionable over time—over this summer, a year, multiple years.
The closing plenary of the 2022 ABC School will be a review of all workshop learning objectives. Facilitators will work with their organizer(s) to compose a representative sentence for large group discussion.
BEYOND 2022
T-A-L Academia Working Group sees the learning objectives that come out of the 2022 workshops as the springboards for ongoing development. Facilitators are invited to advance the ideas of their workshop in collaboration with T-A-L in the months/years to come—or, simply, to hand off their one-sentence objective for others to further. We are planning to evolve the objectives into material for the 2023 ABC School, for an open-source library, and more. Possible long-term outcomes include but are not limited to:
Architecture Beyond Capitalism Education Tenets
The ethics, principles, or values towards which architecture education might aspire. These push the learning objectives into collective statements. They are the touch points around which architecture education can rally and organize; they set the new standards that architecture education’s participants will work to uphold.
Guidelines for Architecture Beyond Capitalism Learning, Teaching, and Organizing
Strategies for retooling coursework, classrooms and campuses, roles and responsibilities, standards and systems, etc. These operationalize the learning objectives, breaking down the ingredients and processes of change for many to employ.
Direct Action Architecture Beyond Capitalism Education Proposals
Plans for specific interventions. These identify the actors and subjects of change and develop the substances, structures, and schedules for organizing and motivating.
Architecture Beyond Capitalism Education Visioning
Speculative imaginings for alternate architecture education models. These describe the ideals of architecture education futures. What will architecture education be when the organizing achieves its aspirations?

<div class="mirror-content"><img alt="Image" class="image" src="https://cdn.lu.ma/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,dpr=2,quality=85,width=800/editor-images/2j/48041ab9-aaab-451a-bd87-21c5acd1933d" style="display:block;max-width:100%;max-height:400px;margin:24px auto"/>​<h2>​PROMPT</h2>​If the first iteration of T-A-L ABC School in 2021 was about identifying the failures of architecture education and better understanding the capitalist structures that define it, the 2022 version is about proposing strategies that will lead to change.​For the past year, T-A-L Academia Working Group, the team behind the 2022 ABC School, has focused on the work of organizing—activating community momentum—behind methods for teaching and learning architecture beyond capitalism. We are asking all facilitators to think of their workshop as a first step in organizing towards actionable objectives for architecture education.​As the pedagogical setting that absorbs the majority of architecture students’ and teachers’ time and resources, studio is explored as a key site in which to test how organizing and action for change can become foundational in architectural practice and lead to alternate/expanded appreciations of architecture and architects. As a beginning prompt, the ABC School asks: how do we understand studio to support and encourage activist organization? How might design be taught in ways that do not perpetuate and reproduce capitalist exploitation?<h2>​WORKSHOP DELIVERABLES</h2>​We are aiming for workshops that are more than one-offs. We are aspiring to workshops that are generators, charged with producing starting points for ongoing collaboration and development. To encourage this, the Academia Working Group is requesting the following from each session:<ul><li>​A One-Sentence Architecture Beyond Capitalism “Learning Objective”</li></ul>​In architectural education, “learning objectives” are typically determined and written into syllabi to describe what is to be learned. Accrediting bodies (such as NAAB, RIBA, etc.) rely on this approach for setting criteria for academic content and student achievement.​In contrast, the Academia Working Group is interested in developing objectives for advancing architecture education in and beyond capitalism. Each facilitator, then, is asked to use their workshop as a collaborative platform for developing an actionable learning objective for architecture education. In other words, what is one thing that architecture education needs to address, convey, or become? Consider, too, how this objective becomes actionable over time—over this summer, a year, multiple years.​The closing plenary of the 2022 ABC School will be a review of all workshop learning objectives. Facilitators will work with their organizer(s) to compose a representative sentence for large group discussion.<h2>​BEYOND 2022</h2>​T-A-L Academia Working Group sees the learning objectives that come out of the 2022 workshops as the springboards for ongoing development. Facilitators are invited to advance the ideas of their workshop in collaboration with T-A-L in the months/years to come—or, simply, to hand off their one-sentence objective for others to further. We are planning to evolve the objectives into material for the 2023 ABC School, for an open-source library, and more. Possible long-term outcomes include but are not limited to:<ul><li>​Architecture Beyond Capitalism Education Tenets</li></ul>​The ethics, principles, or values towards which architecture education might aspire. These push the learning objectives into collective statements. They are the touch points around which architecture education can rally and organize; they set the new standards that architecture education’s participants will work to uphold.<ul><li>​Guidelines for Architecture Beyond Capitalism Learning, Teaching, and Organizing</li></ul>​Strategies for retooling coursework, classrooms and campuses, roles and responsibilities, standards and systems, etc. These operationalize the learning objectives, breaking down the ingredients and processes of change for many to employ.<ul><li>​Direct Action Architecture Beyond Capitalism Education Proposals</li></ul>​Plans for specific interventions. These identify the actors and subjects of change and develop the substances, structures, and schedules for organizing and motivating.<ul><li>​Architecture Beyond Capitalism Education Visioning</li></ul>​Speculative imaginings for alternate architecture education models. These describe the ideals of architecture education futures. What will architecture education be when the organizing achieves its aspirations?</div>

If the first iteration of T-A-L ABC School in 2021 was about identifying the failures of architecture education and better understanding the capitalist structures that define it, the 2022 version is about proposing strategies that will lead to change.

For the past year, T-A-L Academia Working Group, the team behind the 2022 ABC School, has focused on the work of 

—activating community momentum—behind methods for teaching and learning architecture beyond capitalism. We are asking all facilitators to think of their workshop as a first step in organizing towards actionable objectives for architecture education.

As the pedagogical setting that absorbs the majority of architecture students’ and teachers’ time and resources, studio is explored as a key site in which to test how organizing and action for change can become foundational in architectural practice and lead to alternate/expanded appreciations of architecture and architects. As a beginning prompt, the ABC School asks: how do we understand studio to support and encourage activist organization? How might design be taught in ways that do not perpetuate and reproduce capitalist exploitation?

We are aiming for workshops that are more than one-offs. We are aspiring to workshops that are generators, charged with producing starting points for ongoing collaboration and development. To encourage this, the Academia Working Group is requesting the following from each session:

In architectural education, “learning objectives” are typically determined and written into syllabi to describe what is to be learned. Accrediting bodies (such as NAAB, RIBA, etc.) rely on this approach for setting criteria for academic content and student achievement.

In contrast, the Academia Working Group is interested in developing objectives for advancing architecture education in and beyond capitalism. Each facilitator, then, is asked to use their workshop as a collaborative platform for developing an actionable learning objective for architecture education. In other words, what is one thing that architecture education needs to address, convey, or become? Consider, too, how this objective becomes actionable over time—over this summer, a year, multiple years.

The closing plenary of the 2022 ABC School will be a review of all workshop learning objectives. Facilitators will work with their organizer(s) to compose a representative sentence for large group discussion.

T-A-L Academia Working Group sees the learning objectives that come out of the 2022 workshops as the springboards for ongoing development. Facilitators are invited to advance the ideas of their workshop in collaboration with T-A-L in the months/years to come—or, simply, to hand off their one-sentence objective for others to further. We are planning to evolve the objectives into material for the 2023 ABC School, for an open-source library, and more. Possible long-term outcomes include but are not limited to:

The ethics, principles, or values towards which architecture education might aspire. These push the learning objectives into collective statements. They are the touch points around which architecture education can rally and organize; they set the new standards that architecture education’s participants will work to uphold.

Strategies for retooling coursework, classrooms and campuses, roles and responsibilities, standards and systems, etc. These operationalize the learning objectives, breaking down the ingredients and processes of change for many to employ.

Plans for specific interventions. These identify the actors and subjects of change and develop the substances, structures, and schedules for organizing and motivating.

Speculative imaginings for alternate architecture education models. These describe the ideals of architecture education futures. What will architecture education be when the organizing achieves its aspirations?