Architects Against Housing Alienation!
WE DEMAND...
¹Land Back!
²On the Land Housing
³First Nations Home Building Lodges
⁴Reparative Architecture
⁵A Gentrification Tax
⁶Surplus Properties for Housing
⁷Intentional Communities for Unhoused People!
⁸Collective Ownership!
⁹Mutual Aid Housing!
¹⁰Ambient Ecosystems Commons!
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EXHIBITION
Not for Sale
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.
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Canada PavilionGiardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy
May 20, 2023 – November 26, 2023
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For all enquiries regarding Not for Sale!, including interview requests, please contact: info@aaha.caNot for Sale! Heartquarters
Pavilion layout for Not For Sale exhibition in Venice, Italy.
Banners for Fugitives
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.
Caitlan Secondcost, Hannah Genosko, Pamela Stone Steph Rybcyn and Emily Davidson were Other Hands, aiding as studio assistants, who brought their presence and critical minds into the work.
Robert Wright, Chris Webb, Wren Tian, Sally Wolchyn-Raab, Vie, Robin, Henny, Lux, Gabrielle, Catriona, Aislinn, Heather, Melissa, Leesa, Brody, Kate G., Tayla, Rob and Simon are also sewn in: They responded to various requests for help in preparing these banners and their Other Energies are also acknowledged.
Sponsors
Gracious Support and Collaboration of
Ron KellettTamara Ross
Tracy Satterfield
Emma Fennell
Maya Przybylski
Julie Dring
Marie McGregor Pitawanakwat
Chinook Song Catchers
Robyn Adams
Not for Sale!
We are Architects Against Housing Alienation and we believe the current housing system in c\a\n\a\d\a must be abolished!
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2023, Architects Against Housing Alienation