An Other Architecture

This project is not so much a project as it is a framework for the project to exist. It seeks to understand architecture as an instrument that claims territory beyond an economic claim.

The current framing and definition of value and particularly property, is often reified into the object of capitalism, with its subjectivity becoming economic. What would happen if we were to move beyond the deeply ingrained idea of “price determines value?” What new stories might we tell? This discussion is where the following projects are positioned within to provide a counterpoint and as a strategy for staging a conversation. Situated within a small neighborhood in Fitzroy, is where the series of small projects lie.

A framework, or manifesto, was written to provide a way in which we may move beyond this narrative, even though architecture can be its own challenge rather than a solution to another. However, it is how we talk about things that affects behaviour, and in turn affects how we theorize. In this way, architecture may become not what we know it to be, only to prove its existence by being able to affect it, and instead be a recognition of our own fallibility that can begin to understand the implications of our own assumptions.