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SUMMARY:WORK — Architecture and Labour / RIOT
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DESCRIPTION:Claudia Mainardi\nHow does the economic system underlying spac
 e production impact architectural practice? Conversely\, how does the prac
 tice of architecture impact the construction industry and housing crises? 
 This lecture series\, WORK—Architecture and Labor\, seeks to illuminate 
 obscured and too often ignored economic questions to address work conditio
 ns and the division of labor and class in the profession. How can the curr
 ent architecture practice be reformed to operate on non-extractive princip
 les? For instance\, will bridging the gap between intellectual design work
 ers in the office and the manual and executive labor force on-site offer a
  way out? What is the causality between land and material value and the or
 ganization of the office? Why is the profession so remote from labor strug
 gles and poorly organized\, with so few unions\, badly negotiated labor co
 ntracts\, and barely any self-management models? Asking candidly ‘who ca
 n afford to be radical\,’ this lecture series seeks answers from thinker
 s\, researchers\, and practitioners to address power structures and labor 
 in architecture.\n\nClaudia Mainardi\nTuesday 30 April 17:00-18:30\n\nToge
 ther with her collective Fosbury Architecture\, is curator of the Italian 
 Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale
  di Venezia.\nIn the previous years\, Claudia worked for numerous offices 
 including OMA/AMO\, MVRDV\, Stefano Boeri Architetti / MultiplicityLab\, a
 nd Studio Folder with whom she won a special mention at the 14th Venice Bi
 ennale. In 2019 CM was head curator of the exhibition and graphic design o
 f UABB Shenzhen Biennale and in 2017 she was assistant curator of BIO 25\,
  the 25th Biennial of Design in Ljubljana. CM has been teaching assistant 
 at Politecnico di Milano\, researcher at The Why Factory –the think-than
 k led by Winy Maas within TUDelft– and collaborator at the Nieuwe Instit
 uut. @claudia_mainardi
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