A Moratorium on New Construction migration Its capacity to resist harsh

Its capacity to resist harsh climatic and topographic circumstances has been improved and adjusted through time and seems today close to perfection

This publication takes you on a journey through the exhibition Delinking and Relinking with artworks from the Van Abbemuseum’s collection

and Afrodiasporic practices to imagine a world-building sonic fiction and futurity embodied in techno

reminiscent of Donald Judd's specific objects

images and practical tools

A Moratorium on New Construction migration Its capacity to resist harshTo build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre Barthes. From steel bolts to concrete blocks to wood flooring to polyester insulation panels, every single component of the built environment is the product of extractive processes. Driven by greedy economies, the global enterprise of space production expands, impacting climate, earth, water, humans, and non humans everywhere. However housing is both a human right and the mandate of design disciplines: