Connect history to today
Where does professional identity show up in your work?
“Architects never control their market, because architects do not dominate what is built.”
Discussion guide
Theme: connecting past organizing and repression to your own identity and conditions.
- When did you start calling yourself an architect, a designer, or something else? Have you ever called yourself a worker?
- What expectations come with that title, and who benefits from them?
- The Red Scare broke up a generation of organized architects. What risks do architecture workers face when we push back today?
- Where do you feel market pressure most in your own work: fees, deadlines, client control, prestige?
- Where does professional identity show up in your work?
Tip for discussion facilitators: some people will push back on calling themselves workers. That’s a good place to start the conversation.
“How could we not identify as workers? We go to work every day, we struggle for a salary.”
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