[Episode 5] Decolonising Architectures of Power: From Prisons to Refuges
How are architects and architecture complicit in structural racism?
This studio, led by Genevieve Murray and Joel Spring of Future Method, works in partnership with the Mudgin-Gal Women’s Council on a real project: a refuge for indigenous women leaving the penal system. The studio requires self-reflection and a shift in modes of architectural practice in order to develop cultural competency in working with aboriginal communities. We follow this studio as students analyse the mechanisms of power and control that architects enable and work as a group to develop a proposal in consultation with community.