A Live Co-Reading of Provisions — A Site/BEAT Collaboration
Presented by SITE in collaboration with BEAT.
ABOUT THE SITE COLLECTIVE -
The Site Collective is a not-for-profit organization established in 2015 to continue the legacy of Canada’s longest running independent journal for architecture and urbanism. As a team of designers, academics, practitioners, journalists, and consultants, we work independently as well as with collaborators from various disciplines to deliver creative projects that contribute to the discourse around social change.
Collectively we believe in the the capacity of the built environment and its related disciplines — architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and art, among others — to positively impact social, political, cultural, and ecological challenges facing humanity and the planet more broadly. We are particularly interested in offering an interdisciplinary platform to explore the agency of designers and aligned professionals in bringing change, advocacy, and engagement beyond the limits of art and design.
Our primary activity is the semi-annual publication of The Site Magazine. However, we are also engaged with a series of ongoing activities in the areas of publishing, curation, education, and advisory support.
Wed July 8 — 12:30 pm EST
Hosted in collaboration with The Architecture Foundation
Topic: The role of speculative fiction and hyper-narrative
Participants: Xiaowei Wang, The Suspended and the Weeping
Andres Colmenares, The Great Awareness
Traumnovelle, Provisional Advertisements
Event description:
Join us for the first conversation in our series, ‘A Live Co-Reading of Provisions,’ drawn from the contributions to The Site Magazine’s latest issue, Provisions: Observing and archiving Covid-19. This conversation will be hosted in collaboration with The Architecture Foundation, as part of their 100 Day Studio event. In this conversation we will be joined by Xiaowei Wang, Andres Colmenares, and Traumnovelle to discuss the role of speculative fiction and hyper narrative in times of crisis through a co-reading and discussion of their responses:
Xiaowei Wang, The Suspended and the Weeping
Andres Colmenares, The Great Awareness
Traumnovelle, Provisional Advertisements
This conversation will be hosted on Zoom, and can be joined via this link.
Wed July 15 — 3:00 pm EST
Topic: Privacy, surveillance, security
Participants: Matthew Shafer, Surveillance as Infrastructure
Sean McDonald, Institutional Reason / Limitation
Henrietta Williams, Lockdown London
Please register for this event here.
Event description:
Join us for the second conversation in our series, ‘A Live Co-Reading of Provisions,’ drawn from the contributions to The Site Magazine’s latest issue, Provisions: Observing and archiving Covid-19. In this conversation we will be joined by Matthew Shafer, Sean McDonald, and Henrietta Williams to discuss the complex challenges related to control, governance, and security in times of crisis through a co-reading and discussion of their responses:
Matthew Shafer, Surveillance as Infrastructure
Sean McDonald, Institutional Reason / Limitation
Henrietta Williams, Lockdown London
Wed July 22 — 3:00 pm EST
Hosted in collaboration with Critical Distance
Topic: Radical care
Participants: Lori Brown, Transformational Slowness
Carol Anne Hilton, Indigenomics
Elke Krasny, Radicalizing Care
This event will have live captioning.
Please register for this event here.
Event description:
Join us for the third conversation in our series, ‘A Live Co-Reading of Provisions,’ drawn from the contributions to The Site Magazine’s latest issue, Provisions: Observing and archiving Covid-19. This conversation will be hosted in collaboration with Critical Distance. In this conversation we will be joined by Lori Brown, Carol Anne Hilton, and Elke Krasny to discuss the radical approaches to care, ethics, and relationality in times of crisis (and how to make these times a moment for meaningful change) through a co-reading and discussion of their responses:
Lori Brown, Transformational Slowness
Carol Anne Hilton, Indigenomics
Elke Krasny, Radicalizing Care
Wed July 29 — 7:00 pm EST
Hosted in collaboration with BEAT
Topic: Equality, Diversity, Gender, Care
Participants: Jennifer Cutbill, It’s Time to Redraw the World
Nicole Kalms and Gill Matthewson, The Essential Gendered Lens
Please register for this event here.
Event description:
Join us for the fourth conversation in our series, ‘A Live Co-Reading of Provisions,’ drawn from the contributions to The Site Magazine’s latest issue, Provisions: Observing and archiving Covid-19. This conversation will be hosted in collaboration with BEAT. In this conversation we will be joined by Jennifer Cutbill, Nicole Kalms, and Gill Matthewson to discuss the compounding urgency and interconnectedness of crises — including crises of equality, diversity, climate, gender — through a co-reading and discussion of their responses:
Jennifer Cutbill, It’s Time to Redraw the World
Nicole Kalms and Gill Matthewson, The Essential Gendered Lens
September 9 — 3:00 pm EST
Hosted in collaboration with La Triennale di Milano
Topic: Arts and institutions
Participants: Sascha Hastings, Through a Glass Darkly
Huda Tayob and Sarah Villiers, Dialogues with Dust
Naomi Woo, Musical Gatherings
This event will have live captioning.
Please register for this event here.
Event description:
Join us for the fifth, and final, conversation in our series, ‘A Live Co-Reading of Provisions,’ drawn from the contributions to The Site Magazine’s latest issue, Provisions: Observing and archiving Covid-19. This conversation will be hosted in collaboration with La Triennale di Milano. In this conversation we will be joined by Sascha Hastings, Huda Tayob and Sarah de Villiers, and Naomi Woo to discuss the role and response of creative arts, cultural practices, and institutions in a time of crisis through a co-reading and discussion of their responses:
Sascha Hastings, Through a Glass Darkly
Huda Tayob and Sarah Villiers, Dialogues with Dust
Naomi Woo, Musical Gatherings
