jillian crandall

architect researching technological innovation, politics, and urban design

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

@shanley @OJutel Thanks folks, this means a lot- and for those who want to read more the full open access paper is linked here: https://t.co/NTGbXxGVaD

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

Not the “normal energy plants”!

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

@FieldsDesiree Thanks for sharing, Desiree!

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

voices inside the whirlwind saying the end is not
destruction, saying two is not the answer, saying
revolution is bigger than both of us, revolution is
a science that infers the future presence of us.

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

Minnie Bruce Pratt, excerpt from The Tornado (in Magnified):

Beauty into nothingness. You say, 'Let’s step back
from the window.' You clasp my hand. What will be
left of us? Bits of sound and matter, exhorting

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

By extension, I ask how does the design of our built environment enable the explorational space of fluidity of the individual in relation to a collective body?

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

Digging this recent monograph from AR, Towards Abundance: The Delightful Paradoxes of Gender https://t.co/r3imSaycdI

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

John Jennifer Marx ends with the provocation: “Is there a core gender within ourselves, or are we only ever made in relation to the world that surrounds us? What, then, are our responsibilities to one another?”

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

@mcmansionhell His argument is stupidly false. As someone who has been temporarily unhoused and who has lived in an SRO to avoid being homeless, if that single room didn’t have a window I’d probably not be alive to argue why windows are a human need. Almost as if that’s the whole point.

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

Living in a SRO in my 20s kept me from being unhoused but having a window kept me alive.

[Brigid Bergin @brigidbergin]

.@NYCMayor talks about a modern- single room occupancy (SRO) concept. He describes his son who has a stove that he doesn’t think he knows how to turn on. He suggests you don’t need a window in a bedroom. “You don’t need a window when you are sleeping.”

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

Demolishing a plate of emotional support potatoes

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

@tcmurray I bring the topic to our Cities&Territories course and our housing studio @ RPI Architecture, particularly addressing aesthetics of exclusion/inclusion & alternative affordable housing models that help combat displacement. But many critics think it falls outside the discipline.

[TAKA Architects @taka_architects]

Forget BIM, embroidery is the future of architectural drawings.

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

@TheChrisTharp @nayibbukele I don’t write about El Salvador in this article but I do center US imperialism in PR; agree it cannot be overstated- my title is a nod to Julian Go’s xlnt piece “Chains of Empire, Projects of State: Political Education and U.S. Colonial Rule in Puerto Rico & the Philippines”.

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

@TheChrisTharp But maybe that’s ok as an interim for smaller micro-economies. I’m a fan of the technological solidarity movement and platform cooperativism & while of course these have challenges I would love to see how decentralized ledgers could work equitably run by and for Puerto Ricans.

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

@TheChrisTharp Hi Christopher thanks for engaging w/ the piece, to clarify I did not pose VyC as a solution but as an example of alternative economic efforts and movements by Puerto Ricans. There’s a range of other reasons community currencies cannot “compete” at scale with the US dollar

[jillian crandall @networkurb]

Join us next Sunday 10.17 in FOUNDATIONS: TOKEN, a free event for the Venice Biennale’s Virtual Italian Pavilion, where we will be talking futures of (crypto)currency, exchange, and what it means for geographies, space, design. More info & registration:

https://t.co/JNe2GaJop7