Essay “Can this be? 
Surely this cannot be?”

Drawing from the experiences and misgivings of architectural workers across Europe, including her own, Marisa Cortright argues that architectural workers would do well to recognize themselves as workers. In so doing, she suggests, they would be better disposed to challenge extractive and oppressive modes of architectural production. These essays on Architectural Workers, Organizing, and Europe link localized discontent and disappointment with the architectural industry to broader currents in anticapitalist struggle, from prison abolition to climate justice. By expanding what forms of collective action constitute “organizing” and questioning the ongoing project of “Europe,” this text sets forth a critique of architectural work beyond architecture.

There, Is The City... And, Here Are My Hands

This collection can be seen as a fugitive practice in which a group of seven people came together and told stories in order to put into words what they referred to as “Afro-geographies in European enclaves”. It is a storytelling exercise that serves to illuminate their African peoplehood against a backdrop of cities that did not want them and in countries that did not love them back. These are stories of the migrant, the diasporic, the displaced and their carved-out places, spoken aloud to makes sense of their own spatiality and shake the Eurocentric epistemic grounds on which they have been forced to stand. The book is edited, curated, and annotated by Menna Agha and Ola Hassanain.