Bridging Ecological Economics, Climate corruption
and Pop Culture.
Brakcshaw is a transdisciplinary, intersectional creative—design studio that specializes in bringing to life desirable realities in times of systemic — socio-economic, political, environmental, and cultural — crisis. Led by designer, artist and ecological economics activist Sophia Kecir Camper (SKC), Brakcshaw is the mother ship of independent bottom-up initiatives: from working out the muscle of our tamed collective imagination with science-backed, down-to-earth Utopian narratives, to amplifying the power of the collective through civil society actions, building bridges with Academia, urban policies, local activists, cultural and economic agents.
In times of rising gentrification and exhobirtant real estate prices, How to design cities in
collaborating with Academia through field research and pilot and academics, urban policies, Desirable realities take shape through our pop culture, what we buy, how we rest, get curious, the way we live and interact with one another in cities.
Ongoing projects include pushing for the
Cdeveloping the pilot project of a third place, Cheeks, to reclaim time and space in cities away from consumerism, and open up arts and crafts practices, including collective cooking, and commoning, to waken up civil society engagement. Third places are said to support climate resilience
Researching the impact of third places and ecological economics.
, to shift towards a
phiaincluding within the planetary boundaries and social justice, in the political, socio-economic polycrisis we're in. context spatial design, led by architect Afaina de Jong. The studio’s aim is to cross the boundaries of the traditional architecture practice by dealing with the existing city with an interdisciplinary approach, integrating theory and research with design. As a studio AFARAI considers itself a feminist practice that encourages change on social and spatial issues and that accommodate differences.
De Jong has worked for renowned international firms before establishing her own firm in 2005. With her studio AFARAI she works on the boundary of architecture and art. Her work is deeply connected to represent people and cultural movements that are not traditionally represented in architectural form. De Jong situates her work and its form languages, colors, patterns and narratives in the public realm as part of the collective imaginary. Her discourse is international and intersectional, connecting counterculture with architecture.
De Jong is the head of the Contextual Design MA department at Design Academy Eindhoven. She has been an active educator for years amongst others at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft and The Sandberg Institute and has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University GSAPP in New York, KTH in Stockholm and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. Her design research The Multiplicity of Other was commissioned for the Dutch Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.
POINTS OF VIEWS
ARE YOUNG PEOPLE POISED TO SLAM THE BRAKE ON ENDLESS ECONOMIC GROWTH?
6 MIN READ
‘I'M NOT BUYING NEW STUFF ANY MORE’: THE YOUNG PEOPLE GETTING INTO ‘DEGROWTH’
7 MIN READ
GREEDFLATION: CORPORATE PROFITEERING ‘SIGNIFICANTLY’ BOOSTED GLOBAL PRICES, STUDY SHOWS
4 MIN READ
WHAT IF NATURE, LIKE CORPORATIONS, HAD THE RIGHTS OF A PERSON?
5 MIN READ
TOO MUCH STUFF: CAN WE SOLVE OUR ADDICTION TO CONSUMERISM?
6 MIN READ
EDOUARD MORENA: “THE ULTRA-RICH HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IN SHAPING CLIMATE POLICIES”
3 MIN READ
FAILURES OF GLOBALIZATION SHATTER LONG-HELD BELIEFS
6 MIN READ
CLIMATE DEBT: WHO SHOULD PAY?
5 MIN READ
SHOULD WE BAN PRIVATE JETS?
6 MIN READ
TO END NEOLIBERALISM, WE HAVE TO 'STOP EVERYTHING WE DO'
4 MIN READ
THE 12 DISCOURSES OF CLIMATE DELAY, AND HOW TO DEBUNK THEM
9 MIN READ
ARE ELECTRIC CARS A SOLUTION TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE?
13 MIN READ
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