The collective Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) was formed and came together to communally shape a grassroots architectural movement founded on shared principles and intentions to put an end to housing alienation. Founding members of AAHA include Adrian Blackwell, David Fortin, Matthew Soules, Sara Stevens, Patrick Stewart and Tijana Vujosevic.
The Vancouver Tenants Union represents over 2500 members, and seeks to build a base of tenants throughout the city to establish political power to create change. Over 50% of Vancouver households are rentals, yet tenants continue to be disempowered and disconnected. In an effort to address this, the Vancouver Tenants Union is committed to educating renters on their rights and standing up to landlords and developers who persistently compromise our security and livelihood. We are fighting for the rights of tenants and the preservation of affordable housing. Everyone, regardless of economic status, lifestyle, ability, age, gender, race, sexuality or citizenship deserves a safe, secure and affordable home.
Migrant Students United Vancouver (Coast Salish Lands) is a grassroots, community-based, and relational initiative. We are a group of current and former international students seeking equity by speaking up about and fighting against the systemic barriers at the university, provincial and national level that prevent migrants from accessing rights.
UBC Communities for Sustainable Development (UCSD) is a coalition of UBC staff, faculty, students and residents who are calling on UBC to commit to socially and environmentally sustainable building on the University Endowment Lands and campus.
On the occasion of the exhibition Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital, please join us for a town hall and sign-making workshop co-presented by Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) and the Belkin.
This event is an opportunity for students, staff, faculty and residents to share ideas and build solidarity around improving housing conditions at UBC. Discussion is open to all and will include brief reports from groups working for positive change: Architects Against Housing Alienation, Migrant Students United, University Community for Sustainable Development and Vancouver Tenants Union.
The town hall meeting will coincide with a sign-making workshop where participants are invited to make signs and posters that can be used in the effort to improve housing for all!
No RSVP is required, just arrive at the Belkin at 12:30 pm; lunch and sign-making materials will be provided!
The collective Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) was formed and came together to communally shape a grassroots architectural movement founded on shared principles and intentions to put an end to housing alienation. Founding members of AAHA include Adrian Blackwell, David Fortin, Matthew Soules, Sara Stevens, Patrick Stewart and Tijana Vujosevic.
The Vancouver Tenants Union represents over 2500 members, and seeks to build a base of tenants throughout the city to establish political power to create change. Over 50% of Vancouver households are rentals, yet tenants continue to be disempowered and disconnected. In an effort to address this, the Vancouver Tenants Union is committed to educating renters on their rights and standing up to landlords and developers who persistently compromise our security and livelihood. We are fighting for the rights of tenants and the preservation of affordable housing. Everyone, regardless of economic status, lifestyle, ability, age, gender, race, sexuality or citizenship deserves a safe, secure and affordable home.
Migrant Students United Vancouver (Coast Salish Lands) is a grassroots, community-based, and relational initiative. We are a group of current and former international students seeking equity by speaking up about and fighting against the systemic barriers at the university, provincial and national level that prevent migrants from accessing rights.
UBC Communities for Sustainable Development (UCSD) is a coalition of UBC staff, faculty, students and residents who are calling on UBC to commit to socially and environmentally sustainable building on the University Endowment Lands and campus.
Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital troubles the enduring narrative binary of town and country. Borders between these two terrains have always morphed and slipped around each other theoretically, politically, economically and socially, yet the narrative of the urban/rural divide persists. Indigenous land dispossession and reclamation, capital accumulation in the form of real-estate assets, labour and technological development are all obscured by this persistent fiction. Town and country narratives similarly obscure questions of class, freedom of movement and resource extraction.
[more]This reading room offers resources relating to the themes and artists present in the exhibition Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital.
[more]Join us for Edge Conditions: Narratives of Property, a walk led by Annabel Vaughan as part of Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital using a map she has designed for the occasion.
[more]Please join us for a screening that brings together works by visual artists Tiziana La Melia, Krista Belle Stewart, Joan Jonas and Maggie Groat to interrogate an urban/rural entanglement in terms of land and culture.
[more]Join us on Wednesday, 2 April 2025 at 2 pm for a concert by UBC School of Music Contemporary Players inspired by the current exhibition, Town and Country, led by Director Paolo Bortolussi.
[more]Part of the exhibition Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital, this image is a page from Carel Moiseiwitsch’s 2024 artist book, Codex Extirpation: The Sad Last Days of Homo Sapiens , which she created for the exhibition. The text reads, “COMETS appeared in the heavens and they did fill the humans with great fear and foreboding, for whomever did see their firey trails across the night sky became afraid.”
[more]Please join us for a symposium planned in conjunction with the exhibition, Town and Country: Narratives or Property and Capital at the Musqueam Cultural Centre on Friday, 4 April 2025.
[more]Join artists Karin Jones and Holly Ward for a conversation about their practices and works in the exhibition Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital.
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