WORKNOT!

collective of cognitarians for architecture + art

Asymmetric Spatialities: Territorial Coloniality

Asymmetric Spatialities: Territorial Coloniality is a laboratory that studies coloniality and decoloniality trans-versally through the power relations present in territorial trans-formation. We understand coloniality as the socio-environmental “power asymmetries” present in the domination of authority, knowledge, and ways of being imposed by capitalist-patriarchy. We aim to critically examine spatial practices or sets of socio-environmental transformation technologies. Through conversations with invited guests, readings, drawings, cartographies, and case studies, we will meet both synchronously and asynchronously in a non-hierarchical setting to study together how spatial practices (re)produce various forms of discrimination, inequity, and exclusion. Throughout these sessions we will ask ourselves: How is de/coloniality spatialized and territorialized?
Invited guests: Ishaq Albalbary, Marquis Bey, Linda Quiquivix @qqvx