Avery Shorts

An email chain letter of architectural thought, published by @gsappbooks.

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Words by Seb Choe and Brian Walter • Read the three part series at: https://t.co/UzzNUwNrdv • And become a friend of Gadsden Creek: https://t.co/AOiRE2M4qt • [3/3]

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“In solidarity with residents, we demand that WestEdge and the City avoid the mistakes of the past, and enact alternative futures that restore broken ecologies and respect the self-determination of Gadsden Green.” • New Avery Shorts Live 3 part mini-series now online • [1/3]

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Join the Friends of Gadsden Creek in opposing the City of Charleston’s approval to redevelop Gadsden Creek and resist the “compounding violence of gentrification and flooding disproportionately experienced by Black folks in urban areas across the United States.” • [2/3]

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"…if we choose to disentangle ‘the master’s concerns,’ perhaps ‘the master’s tools’ are admissible and even more powerful if we use them to uplift the concerns of our communities." • @bz_3dm shares the Anti-Racism Design Resources • https://t.co/WGyqVI6ExS

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“Given its ubiquitous power… might software be counter-speculated for climate action?” • Amelyn Ng explores tactics of digital dissent • https://t.co/g5Uu2F8eyQ

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“But a small group of us, exhausted with our profession’s inability to respond to current political realities, had already begun to dismantle inequity in the arena that we knew best – the built environment.” • Seb Choe sends a letter from the future • https://t.co/m5O21CdPn3

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“May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Did you know?” • Irene Sunwoo makes a list • https://t.co/sPUZK0nRuo

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“To dismantle the face is maybe to break walls, to dislodge oneself, to give rise to new developments, relations, and forms of solidarity.” • Marina Otero Verzier wants you to turn off your video • https://t.co/PqDnPcWKAm

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Avery Shorts Live is….LIVE!! In our first letter, @DrTippyD offers a reading • Tarot Cartography is “a Tarot for the commune” • https://t.co/UFpOvS14L1

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Dearest readers! Hoping you are healthy and safe ♥️ We are launching *Avery Shorts Live,* a venue for off-season Shorts, to continue sharing timely, bite-sized reflections between our usual publication rhythms. More info here: https://t.co/oHa4h80vJn

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Our brilliant 🧠 graphic designer for this season of Avery Shorts @candusen wrote about the 🤩 emoji-forward concept 🌈 of the season, and the proprietary warfare that rules these characters 🌏 Read our LAST episode of the season https://t.co/oDaLWJsN25

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“The room formed a picture: a woman inside an embryonic glasshouse surrounded by spiritualist domestic appliances.” @paulavilaplana on the surveillance of female mediums and the modern transformation of the victorian domestic interior https://t.co/sUYBFxCxEr

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In our latest episode, @mahmoudkvz outlines the smuggler's "ability to reconfigure existing objects, technologies, and practices of mobility in ways that generate new, unanticipated pathways for those deprived of them." https://t.co/ljqoNkzswJ

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Why you won't stop crying in your open office 😭😭😭 Jesse Connuck and Daniel Eguren talk crying at work in episode 18 of Avery Shorts https://t.co/RWXmUGo3l8

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. @HusosArch rethinks the place of biodiversity in the city..."Urbanism for Homeless Species" is now live on Avery Shorts https://t.co/mz2e9LR9M4

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. @evahagberg talks about not talking about architecture in our latest episode of Avery Shorts https://t.co/S81mnjBt8C

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Indigenous aesthetics as a practice of coded disruption and affirmative refusal is the latest on Avery Shorts: https://t.co/XaasCrM5w3

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“…the data center is acoustically resonating with the ambiguity that can't be computed” @h0use on the sound of computing waste in today’s data centers - ep 14 of Avery Shorts season 3 https://t.co/fVNPR5wrKn

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"i am present in the instant." @adriennemaree proposes an "instasocial" way of being to revel in the immediate. Read on in our latest ep of Avery Shorts: https://t.co/B1vsD25QSB

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“Could architecture ever propose something useful in this ‘end of the world as we know it’ scenario?” @aangelidakis helps us open the new year with an urgent piece on architecture, capital, and the enduring climate crisis https://t.co/0apINwEH7q