Radical autonomy

Architecture in the Netherlands is under pressure. Construction is highly industrialised, projects grow ever more complex, and buildings are increasingly treated as financial assets, all of which narrows what we can design and build. Architects find themselves fighting to keep their decision-making power and to protect the principles and qualities of their work. This event will bring together spatial practitioners and researchers from Brazil and the Netherlands to discuss going radical as the way to regain our collective autonomy as designers, builders, and inhabitants of the city. What does it mean to do justice to architecture as a collective project? How can we practice in ways that confront the roots of our current crises, rather than just their symptoms? Across two geographies, in open dialogue, we will discover what architecture is still capable of when we radically rethink the economy, politics, hierarchies, and types of knowledge that shape our projects.