If ageism is addressed at all, it is often approached as affecting older people and elderly only. But ageism concerns all of us: everyone is assigned an age at birth. Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto refuses to fight ageism by reproducing capitalist arguments of value and heterosexual notions of linear time. Van Saarloos starts with an experience of childhood sexual abuse, and moves on to dissect the ways in which constructions of “age” and “youth” function to support and reproduce white supremacist patriarchy. With the help of the Architecture and Care department, what kinds of anti-ageist living condition can we imagine?

Simon(e) van Saarloos (they/them) is the author of Playing Monogamy, Take ‘Em Down: Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting, and Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto. They also work as a curator and artistic collaborator. Van Saarloos is based between Amsterdam and Oakland, California.


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Abolish Age(ism) !

Alfredo Lérida (he/him) is an architect and PhD candidate. Co-founder of MAIO Architects, an architectural office based in Barcelona. He graduated from the Barcelona School of Architecture and holds a Master in Advanced Studies in Architectural Projects from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

iLiana Fokianaki (she/her) is a curator, theorist and educator and the designated new director of Kunsthalle Bern (starting spring 2024). Her research focuses on formations of power and how they manifest under the influence of geopolitics, national identity and cultural and anthropological histories, with a specific research trajectory on the ethics and politics of care, in times of climate catastrophe. 

Jenny Schäubli (she/her) is an interior designer and member of queerAltern, with the recently founded practice Rüüm. As a trans woman, she has advocated for a visibly lived identity. 

Oliver Burch (he/him) is an architect, part of 8000.agency, part of ZAS*, and part of Studio Jan De Vylder at ETH Zürich.

Simon(e) van Saarloos (they/them) is the author of Playing Monogamy, Take ‘Em Down: Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting, and Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto. They also work as a curator and artistic collaborator. Van Saarloos is based between Amsterdam and Oakland, California.

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FS24 DIPLOMA INTERIM REVIEW II 

Amy Perkins (she/her) is an architect, a founding member of both Annexe and Assemble Studio, and holds a guest professorship with James Binning at the EPFL Lausanne. 

Torsten Lange (he/him) is lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland. His work focuses on writing histories of queer spatial practices.


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FS24 STUDIO INTERIM REVIEW I

Books have been an essential tool to understand the world we inhabit in its wider context. The words we use, the many languages in which we communicate create a framework where the past, present and possible futures collide. And within this framework, one of the most radical ways of embracing otherness and learning to respectfully listen to other voices is by reading  together. By reading aloud together we allow the configuration of new kinds of spaces where empathy, otherness and alterity prove stronger than ideologies. 

By selecting readings that dismantle binary understandings of society—and the world at large—a reader will be assembled and distributed through the participants. Texts gathered in the reader are read aloud by participants, intended to provoke a contagion of knowledge by learning not only from the contents, but from the nuances, the accents, and the cadence of the different voices.


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Reading our otherness together

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These are my Hours: Care and Self-Determined Birth Spaces of labour

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The nursery

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OJA Extension: A Threshold of Expression

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Unclear Nuclear

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