Volume 6: Agency

The mandate of architects and urbanists today goes way beyond designing buildings: it includes changing behaviour, influencing and impacting policy, and building bottom-up agency with new understandings of value, justice and cultural production.

The sixth volume - Agency – focuses on emerging narratives and strategies that can help architects adapt their practice towards more effective agency in order to meet the greater, more universal tasks that are upon all of humankind. The projects and original works featured here show ways forward in addressing ecological destruction, racial injustice, housing inequality and landscapes of conflict. They point to new modes of design practice, rethinking what it means to be an architect in a world of spatial injustice.