Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) is a collective formed in 2021 that started Not for Sale! as a campaign to end housing alienation. The Organizing Committee enlisted Campaign Collaborators who have contributed their talents and expertise to realize the campaign. The campaign is centered on the work of ten teams, from across the land now known as c\a\n\a\d\a, who have created demands and proposals. The Team Members include activists, architects, and advocates who bring expertise, experience, connection, and compassion to issues of housing justice. This collaborative effort aims to add momentum, new synergies, and a shared focus to the ongoing and remarkable work to create a radically new housing system. Join the campaign!
Adrian Blackwell | is an artist, designer, theorist, and educator, whose work focuses on the relation between physical spaces and political economic forces. (University of Waterloo School of Architecture) | ||
David Fortin | is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario and a professional architect who runs a small architectural office working primarily with Métis and First Nations communities across c\a\n\a\d\a. He previously acted as co-curator for UNCEDED: Voices of the Land at the 2018 Venice Biennale. (University of Waterloo School of Architecture). | ||
Matthew Soules | is an architect and professor who focuses on contemporary capitalism and architecture and has written about the financialization of physical space. (University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture) | ||
Sara Stevens | is an architectural and urban historian whose research focuses on real estate developers of the twentieth century. (University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture) | ||
Simoogit Saa Bax Patrick Stewart | is a member of the Killerwhale House of Daaxan of the Nisga’a Nation and an award-winning architect with 27 years of architectural experience who was the first architect of First Nations ancestry to own and operate an architectural firm in British Columbia, and an exhibiting architect with UNCEDED at the 2018 Venice Biennale. (Laurentian University McEwen School of Architecture) | ||
Tijana Vujosevic | is an architectural historian whose research focuses on communist and feminist forms of domesticity. (University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture) |
Chris Lee | Chris Lee is a Canadian graphic designer and educator based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). He is currently an assistant professor in the undergraduate communications design department at the Pratt Institute. Chris’s studio-based research explores graphic design’s entanglement with power and standardization, and as a matter of how design figures in questions of what is thinkable, sayable, and knowable. | |||
Ali S. Qadeer | Ali Shamas Qadeer is a designerand educator based in Toronto. His work focuses on the intersection of design labour and political economy as well as digital surveillance. Ali teaches graphic design at OCAD University. | |||
Vince Tao | Vince Tao is a community organizer at the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. Prior to this, he was a labour organizer with the Teaching Support Staff Union and a librarian in Vancouver's Chinatown. Tao is also a member of the Vancouver Tenants Union and the Our Homes Can’t Wait Coalition. | |||
Marie-Espérance Cerda | Marie-Espérance Cerda is a multidisciplinary video creator from Montréal, Québec. She most recently worked as an editor and producer at news organizations such as The Canadian Press and HuffPost in Toronto, Canada. Her current work is focused on experimenting with video forms and using motion graphics to tell stories. | |||
Ryan Sudds | Ryan is a documentarian and organizer on unceded Coast Salish land in so-called Vancouver, Canada. His work focuses on tent cities, the people living there, their supporters and the state actors (police, city workers, polticians) attempting to evict people. He is a member of the Stop the Sweeps Coalition. | |||
Housing Solidarity Network | The Housing Solidarity Network (HSN) unites and empowers housed and unhoused tenants to take direct action against Vancouver's unjust housing system. | |||
Grey Piitaapan Muldoon | Grey Piitaapan Muldoon is an artist working in installation and performance. Grey makes immersive spaces, participatory structures, storytelling diagrams, and imagines human / non-human collaborations. They were born in a giant meteorite impact crater, where they learnt to resist the effects of structural violence and alienation from Land. | |||
Tamara Andruszkiewicz | Canada Council of the Arts | |||
Cory Zurell | Cory Zurell is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, supporting the Architectural Engineering program. He is a licenced Professional Engineer in Ontario and Nova Scotia and is also a Principal at Blackwell Structural Engineers. | |||
Emelie Chhangur | Artist, curator, writer, and dramaturge, Emelie Chhangur is known for her process-based, infra-cultural and participatory practice that re-structures artistic labour as an ethical process to counter the status quo. She’s a proud supporter of AAHA’s contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennial and their concomitant commitment to infrastructural change in housing paradigms in Canada. Chhangur is Director/Curator of Agnes Etherington Art Centre, where she fights for a community-engaged architectural design process that reimagines new museum architectures, ensuring the cultural spaces of Canada’s future no longer look like those of Canada’s colonial past. She puts forward a practice she invented called “in-reach.” | |||
Brendan Cormier | Brendan Cormier is a Canadian curator and writer and is currently the Chief Curator of V&A East in London, UK. Prior to his work at the V&A, he was managing editor of Volume Magazine, based in Amsterdam, NL. From 2009-2012, he co-founded and co-directed Department of Unusual Certainties, a Toronto-based design practice, which translated urban research into speculative exhibition and publication projects. | |||
Cheryl L'Hirondelle | Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Cree/Halfbreed; German/Polish) is an award winning and community-engaged interdisciplinary artist, singer/songwriter and critical thinker whose family is from Papaschase First Nation / amiskwaciy wâskahikan (Edmonton) and Kikino Metis Settlement, Alberta. Her work investigates and articulates the intersections of nêhiyawin (Cree worldview) and contemporary time-place incorporating sound, Indigenous languages, music, and old and new technology. | |||
David Kalman | University of British Columbia, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | |||
Josephine Li | University of British Columbia, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | |||
Piero Sovrani | University of British Columbia, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | |||
Noa Wang | University of British Columbia, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | |||
Donald Zhu | OCAD University | |||
Kara Crabb | University of British Columbia, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | |||
Lee-Ann Kam | University of British Columbia, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | |||
Anaïs Trembling | University of British Columbia, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | |||
Marie McGregor Pitawanakwat | Marie McGregor Pitawanakwat is an Anishinaabe kwe, at Daawganing, on Manitoulin Island, Northeastern Ontario, Canada. Marie developed a business called Szhibeegen Training Services, which provided training and development to First Nation communities and NGOs, primarily in Northwestern Ontario, focussed on community and business development. Her business won an award from the Northern Ontario Business Awards. In 2015, shortly after returning to her home community at Whitefish River First Nation, she was evicted from the original family home and became homeless. Her belief was and is that Indigenous people already own the land, so there was and is no need to “purchase” land that one’s people already own. She created a tiny home, situated in the woods on the Whitefish River reserve on unused land, where she lived off-grid for three years. In 2018, the Whitefish River reserve evicted her and she became homeless again. In 2019, Marie was accepted as a member of Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory. She is Co-Chair of the National Indigenous Housing Network with Katlia Lafferty, and Co-Chair of the Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network. |
We are Architects Against Housing Alienation and we believe the current housing system in c\a\n\a\d\a must be abolished!