Alina Paias
is a spatial designer, writer, curator, and researcher investigating the systems of architecture production by engaging with a broad range of philosophies. She has worked on the curation, design and production of several exhibitions in the Americas and in Europe.
Tips
1. Boek: Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time
waarom? “This is a feminist sci-fi book written in 1976 in which the protagonist moves between two realities: 1970s New York City and a utopian future with an extremely progressive society. Piercy describes the spaces, objects and rituals of this future with such richness of detail and internal cohesiveness that it really feels real, or at least possible. I think every feminist architect should read this book to expand and explore what we consider to be our own possible futures.”
wat en wie? Woman on the Edge of Time is een feministische sciencefictionroman uit 1976 van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Marge Piercy . De roman werd oorspronkelijk uitgegeven door Alfred A. Knopf.
2. Artikel: Dulmini Perera - Designing in the Context of Time: Why Annetta Pedretti’s cybernetic-architectural practice at 25 Princelet Street matters
waarom? “This is a recently published article by my colleague Dulmini Perera. It does a beautiful job of highlighting the importance and conceptual richness of Annetta Pedretti’s activist practice, which finds its continuation at House of Annetta in London. Pedretti’s work is endlessly creative, generous and very original in its engagement with cybernetics and systems thinking. When I was in architecture school, I learned about men who used cybernetics in their work such as Cedric Price or Stewart Brand, but no teacher ever spoke of Pedretti. I hope Perera’s text changes that.”
wat en wie? Designing in the Context of Time is een academisch artikel van Dulmini Perera, online gepubliceerd op 8 april 2025 door Cambridge University Press.
3. Boek: Denise Ferreira da Silva - Unpayable Debt
waarom? “Denise Ferreira da Silva is a philosopher and artist who gives us models to interpret and speak of modernity connecting race, gender, value, law and even physics. This book brings many concepts that Ferreira da Silva had been working with in separate texts into a single robust work of theory. The text is conceptually dense but it pays off to stay with it, read it slowly and come back to it a couple of times. If you feel like decolonial theory deals with the theme of race insufficiently, this is the book for you.”
wat en wie? Unpayable Debt is een boek van Denise Ferreira da Silva, gepubliceerd in 2022 door Sternberg Press.