GSA Architecture Week Lecture 2023:  Spirals and Loudreaders by WAI Think Tank 

Spirals and Loudreaders  

 By narrating a non-linear journey, Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia, now joined by their child Ema Yuizarix address how alternative platforms of action and dissemination allow them to coalesce different collective practices that include designing, teaching, researching, writing, publishing, and organising.  

  Through the work of different collectives including WAI Think Tank, Garcia Frankowski, Intelligentsia, Post-Novis, and Loudreaders, Garcia and Frankowski highlight the urgency of networks of planetary solidarity while proposing to learn from a radical practice of pedagogy born in the Caribbean at the beginning of the 20th century that sought to challenge colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism.    

 WAI Architecture Think Tank is a planetary studio practicing by questioning the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism. Founded by Puerto Rican architect, artist, curator, educator, author, and theorist Cruz Garcia and French architect, artist, curator, educator, author, and poet Nathalie Frankowski, WAI is one…