Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) is occupying the Canada Pavilion in Venice as its Not for Sale! campaign heartquarters for the duration of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Not for Sale!, an architectural activist campaign for non-alienated housing, showcases the work of ten teams that bring together activists, architects, and advocates from across the country to articulate a set of demands – each addressing a specific and pressing issue in c\a\n\a\d\a.
The heartquarters is a space where architecture students, in collaboration with the ten teams working simultaneously in c\a\n\a\d\a, develop the campaign's demands. It is a place where visitors can learn about the details of the demands and the policy, economics, and design alternatives that they propose. AAHA invites all visitors to engage Not for Sale! and join the call for safer, healthier, and more equitable housing.
The banners hanging from the mezzanine in the pavilion house the demands collected by AAHA. Created by Grey Piitaapan Muldoon, the banners avail what is close and on hand–blankets, bedsheets, curtains, jackets–to carry words and take space. Grey has been making these “banners for fugitives” since 2014, when they were illegally evicted, along with their collected family, to make way for sale: The banners wear against the alienation.
We are Architects Against Housing Alienation and we believe the current housing system in c\a\n\a\d\a must be abolished!