Any attempt to discuss solidarity within any political, social and cultural context would inevitably have to address power relations and asymmetries, types and levels of commitment, protocols and hierarchies, institutions and practices, collective and/or individual. When we encounter the spaces of social and political struggle, our will to reinvent how we exist, interact, participate, educate, design, build, communicate and write about, for, within and beyond the boundaries of our profession collides with the limited realities and conventions of our disciplinary formation. The reassurances of structure, permanence, order, form, material, and capital that have historically defined architecture, I would argue, have also rendered it incapable to respond to the temporal and material dimensions of contemporary conflicts, the diffused and asymmetrical planetary crisis of climate change, fundamentalist and technoscientific fascisms. A profession complicit like no other to climate and spatial injustice seems unable to confront the realities of structural violence produced by and within it.
Fatura Collaborative – Research & Design Practice, was founded in 2009 and is developing projects across a wide range of scales, from intimate objects and performance, to architecture, urban design and planning. We are interested in architecture as social infrastructure, in developing collective equipments, in the design of spaces of care, empathy and welfare. We design and research expanding new problematics about ecology, the domestic, everyday life and the city.