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We are a grassroots organization of architectural workers that advocates for just labor practices and an equitable (built) environment.
We organise in working groups centred around particular themes.
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Green New Deal
We support a federal Green New Deal and are committed to the resolution’s call for a just transition. We focus on organizing for ecological justice as it relates to architectural labor, the built environment, and sustainable futures for all.
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Academia
The Academia Working Group annually gathers the Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School.
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Unionization
The TAL Unionization Working Group (UWG) is an advocacy, support, and study group whose mission is to promote labor organizing for workers in architecture and related fields. While not ourselves a union, our members have played leading roles in the movement to organize architecture and designer workers since TAL’s inception. As our movement grows, we […]
Events
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ABC School Closing Plenary
This event is being held at two different times to accommodate participants across the globe.
December 7, 2023
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Nurturing Equal Value for All
This event will screen two videos from Sanjeev Sanjar – reflecting on and analysing two collaborative projects from india, which have explored collective potential within complementary contexts. “Jugaad” explored recycling and repurposing within an urban village of Delhi, and has inspired critical discourse on “resource” within the built environment. “Syrwet U Barim Mariang Jingkieng Jri […]
September 30, 2023
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From the Ground Up: Building Solidarity in Somerville through Aspirational Design
ALL ARCHITECTURE IS POLITICAL. ALL POLITICS ARE LOCAL. COMMUNITY POWER IS BUILT, NOT GIVEN. What does it mean to build community in a broken world? As architects working in the public sphere, we are cast into a predatory system that divides people. Networks of capital, privatization, inequity, gentrification, and displacement all convene to fracture human […]
September 29, 2023
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ABC Hub Workshopping Event
If you have something to contribute to the ABC Hub, or would like to understand more about how it works, this event is for you! We will allow the space and time to talk about the ABC Hub and to support interested contributors in uploading content or adding definitions. This event is part of our Just […]
Thursday 9/28/23
Online
