Library Stack,
Esther Choi,
Shannon Mattern,
et al.Rory Rowan, Erik Wysocan, Edgardo Civallero, Sara Plaza, Sam Hardy, Hannes Grassegger, Jem Bendell, Danica Brozowski, [6 More...]
For the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale, Library Stack has compiled a series of essays that map a notional ‘right to loot’ across the urgency of climate crisis and the demand for degrowth. How or when does an unfolding catastrophe manifest a new moral right to dismantle, seize or inhabit the archival, technological, educational, or economic systems producing that crisis? The series finds Shannon Mattern speculating on deep storage archives and their horizon of futurity; Esther Choi on the falsehoods of architecture’s sustainability discourse; Edgardo Civallero and Sara Plaza on the role of libraries in shaping a public consciousness; Rory Rowan ...