Upzoning to what?

Karamia Müller

THE POLITICS OF SPACE continue to develop in both events and discussion globally, as elections draw closer and bombing of Palestine continues. The movement of protests on US and UK campuses against the genocide of Palestinians has foregrounded that space, and the ways in which it is regulated, testing the constituent parts and, by extension, the whole of those democratic institutions. These protests illustrate that space can be created in the imagination, inhabited with a different mandate and policed with opposing politics, and can produce a set of circumstances that are tense, unpredictable and violent. The architects of those campuses likely imagined those buildings and their green spaces alight with intellectual endeavour, thrusting humanity forward. By contrast, the protesting students and staff now inhabiting those halls and lawns feel the precarity…

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Architecture NZ (Digital) - 1 Issue, July-August 2024

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