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The Architectural Anarchive: Reimagining the Design Archive
Mon 6:00 PM
Van Alen Institute, 303 Bond St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, USA
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Presented alongside our fall exhibition Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design , this panel discussion draws inspiration from the elusive concept of “anarchitecture” — characterized variously by the cut and the collective, absence and activation, excess and erasure. This panel will assess and reimagine the architectural “an-archive” as a site where knowledge workers, scholars, designers, planners, students, and community members converge. How do (or could) archives condition what constitutes architecture, what’s worthy of collection and preservation, who counts among its stakeholders, what records or artifacts document its existence, and what alternative worlds might be conceiv…