Practice Place: Work, Labour, Action!

How to create conditions for an ecological and hopeful design practice? IABR 2024 introduces a Practice Place, a soft assembly space within the exhibition, and calls upon spatial practitioners to come together around the transformation of practice. 

The position of many workers within the architecture and construction practice – of female architects, architects with a migration background, Southern and Eastern European architects on temporary contracts, migrant construction workers – remains marginalized and precarious in overlapping ways. Simultaneously, workers hold important leverage to transform the building sector into a more just and ecological practice. Working conditions are intimately connected with the economic position of the discipline as a whole. How to democratize and decarbonize architectural work? How to build alliances for a better architecture discipline between generations and positions? How to organize and unionize? 

The intention of this meeting is to build connections between participants. Peggy Deamer and Josh Barnett (The Architecture Lobby) will talk about the relation between worker's rights and the possibility of a just ecological transition. Choreographer Ingrid Berger-Myhre shares exercises for moving together. NAA! (Netherlands Angry Architects) share tools for organizing from the ground up.

Work, Labour, Action! is part of a series of assemblies in the Practice Place. The gathering is documented in a growing archive in the exhibition and forms the basis for a podcast series with De Architect. The Practice Place program leads to the development of a New Narrative for Architecture and Urbanism (NNAU), which will be festively presented during the closing weekend of the biennale.

Doors open 9:30. End 16:45.

Practice Place Assembly 5: Work, Labour, Action! [EN] 

20 September 2024, Nieuwe Instituut.  

Doors open 9:30. End 16:45. Language: English 

Program 
9:30-10:00: Coffee & croissant  
10:00-10:15: Introduction + Welcome in the Practice Place  
10:15-10:45: Peggy Deamer on The Architecture Lobby – Organizing for a Just Transition 
10:45-12:00: Story Circle  
12:00-13:00: Imagining Otherwise – Movement class by Ingrid Berger-Myhre  
13:00-14:00: Lunch  
14:00-15:30: Toolshare by NAA! (Netherlands Angry Architects) 
15:45-16:45: Collective Conclusions - Crafting a New Narrative, Building Alliances  

Optional drinks at Westkop

The spoken language is English.

The event is free, but registration is required.

Practice Place logo. Image: Studio Le Roy Cleeremans