Weaving Stories II | Abolish the Human: Session 2

For weaving stories II, ARIAS (Platform for Research through the Arts & Sciences) is collaborating with the Research Group Art & Spatial Praxis https://research.rietveldsandberg.nl/en/research+groups/art++spatial+praxis/ at Rietveld Sandberg Research. Over three sessions, entitled Abolish the Human, Art & Spatial Praxis invites research collaborators and the ARIAS network to imagine more equitable, communal, queer, and subversive ways of being and of inhabiting our urban environments. Drawing on the work of Jamaican writer and philosopher Sylvia Wynter, these weaving stories sessions focus on her concept of the plot as a historical material space, a narrative technology, and an anti-hegemonic practice of being human. Each session will introduce key aspects of Wynter’s thinking and feature an activation led by an invited guest collaborator. In this second session, we ask: What might a city without property look like? What would it mean to rethink, rather than reform, housing? How would relations between people, labour, and land change if rent and the appropriation of housing were abolished? What forms of organisation could replace landlordism, housing as a commodity, and a speculative housing market? More information and sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3BX6DxervyqgHcMj7igxkuSG-xxpp0hVTTvhRguhE7yrGmw/viewform NieuwLand is wheelchair accessible but the toilets are not. The nearest public spaces with accessible toilets are Wereld Museum Amsterdam (open Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 17) and hotel The Manor (open 24/7)