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Architecture faculty (contested terrains; spatial politics and design Justice) at Carleton (+ African Studies + Center for the Study of Islam); Former Design Editor at JAE. Sometimes I draw & write. I like cats, ferries + the Bosphorus.
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The ACSA suspended its bylaws to form a secret, unelected committee to review and advise it on our journal’s forthcoming issue on Palestine. After a year of bullshit that ended in the issue’s cancellation, we’ve exhausted our options for salvaging it. Our entire editorial board resigns.

Hard, but necessary. It’s been a privilege to work with this board; among the most principled, generous, kind, brilliant, just, + fiercely tender people I’ve met. Looking forward to building platforms, institutions, languages, potentials + possibilities that have these values and voices. Stay tuned.

Unfortunate, but not unexpected news. I hope the editors find a venue for the contributions, which were submitted last month and were in peer review ahead of last week's decision by ACSA. Maybe a special issue of @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social? www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

A perfect little case study of the cowardice and complicity that, aggregated across universities and associations, is covering the academic industry in shame. www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Very unfortunate that one of the only welcoming and radical institutions in architecture (the JAE) is being detonated by a bunch of MAGA sympathizers on the ACSA board www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Spent parts of my career thinking ACSA/JAE wasn't for me, but for the past four years (thx to Nora Wendl / McLain Clutter / great editors + board), JAE has been one of the best journals going. ACSA hasn't "protected" anything—they've unmade it with their own hands. www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

1/8 - The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture - the parent organization for the Journal of Architectural Education - has cancelled the upcoming Fall 2025 issue of the journal - titled “Palestine,” and fired our Interim Executive Editor.

The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐 www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

"The Asscn of Collegiate Schools of Architecture announced [yesterday] it has canceled a forthcoming Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) edition abt 🇵🇸.... The announcement arrived on the same day McLain Clutter, JAE interim executive editor, was fired by ACSA." Shameful.

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Buy Omar’s book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.”

Greetings from The Hague.

We're on our way already! 💜 Mohamed's tent has been destroyed so many times but last night was the final straw, it's completely flooded. They really need to secure an apartment ASAP. 50/350 (goal on Chuffed is 2200) tiny.cc/HelpMohamed

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Kumo at stage right.

In JAE 78.2 “Political Geographies of Rural Electrification,” author Micah Rutenberg maps a vivid snapshot that illustrates the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)’s role as an agent of environmental region-building. Visit bit.ly/4hKeBLi for more. #JAE #Energy #TVA #TennesseeValley

Nate Imai and Matthew Okazaki wrote "Seeking Redress: A History of Little Tokyo's San Pedro Firm Building," in the @thejaeonline.bsky.social "Infidelities issue. It's a great narrative on a century long resistance + resilience project in Los Angeles and can be read here, open access:

It occurs to me, for no reason in particular, that I should put this starter pack back in circulation go.bsky.app/3h6n3YC

Some of the stunning work of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940-2025). Image 1: Adios Map, 2021: Image 2:Untitled (Green and Yellow), 1978; Image 3: Montana: Salish Country since the Creation Time, 2011.

Find myself returning for the third time (the first post-Trump 2.0) to Nick Estes’ outstanding history of Standing Rock/#NoDAPL. On the assetisation of land & water; on resistance, community, solidarity. “The rallying cry of Mni Wiconi—‘water is life’—is also an affirmation that water is alive.”

Dr. Divya Persaud is one of the most relentlessly generous and committed people I’ve met, and is doing vital work supporting Palestinian families in need. Please follow and consider supporting these funds. Every little bit helps. ♥️

Join activist Tamara Lanier and Hrag Vartanian on Feb 12 for a conversation on her new book about her quest to retrieve the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors from Harvard University.

Adrian Lahoud, Dean of Architecture at RCA, wrote this piece - "Loss and Damange" for the Worlding. Energy. Transitions. issue of @thejaeonline.bsky.social (edited by Rania Ghosn and Billy Fleming). Worth a read, and relevant now more than ever. Open Access below:

In need of his winter cut, but still majestic AF. #mavi

1 of 2. Verse 2: June Jordan’s: I must become a menace to my enemies: 2 How many of my brothers and my sisters will they kill before I teach myself retaliation? Shall we pick a number?

Yesterday, in protest of Harvard University's response to the genocide in Gaza and deepening repression of campus activism against it, I submitted a letter of resignation from my job there. Here is that letter.

Peace for a hot minute in academia as a blown transformer quiets half the campus for a bit.

1/5… My first meeting with Dave Pitt was a drive-by introduction as I walked past his office in the Landscape Architecture Dept at the U of Minnesota's College of Design, what now feels like a lifetime ago.

A great read by Boyce Upholt, on the Mississippi (a great river that I think about often and miss an awful lot more). This introduction to Chapter 9 reminded me of the amazing Dr. Zoe Todd (who we also miss a - metric - ton, and then some in this neck of the woods.