END HOUSING ALIENATION NOW!
Housing in canada is characterized by unaffordability, disrepair, under-housing, precarity, and homelessness. This is housing alienation?the condition of being separated from our fundamental connections to home. It separates us from the land we inhabit, the social world that supports us, and our full creative lives. We are Architects Against Housing Alienation and we believe the current housing system in canada must be abolished!
Aerial Perspective showing the ground floor with the mezzanine exploded above. The 10 demands are on the open wood stud walls, so a visitor can march from demand one to 10 as they move from wall to wall.
The transformation of land and homes into profit-generating commodities has caused alienation. This condition began with colonial land dispossession. When European settlers arrived in canada, they began a process that not only violently took land away from Indigenous peoples, but also attacked Indigenous ways of knowing and doing. Through this encounter, land became conceptualized as private property, reserved for the exclusive use of its owner and yet easily exchanged, throwing something as rooted as land into circulation. We use Sim’oogit Saa-Bax Patrick Stewart?s backslashes in canada to refer to these originating land divisions and separations. canada is divided by property lines and separated by the drive for profit over the connection to place. Cross section through the Land Back garden, showing the mezzanine...