HAUNTED LANDSCAPES
2023

Short film

PAPO are Polly Bruchlos
and Paula Granda Ojeda

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Haunted Landscapes traces the correlation of architectural practice and education with the (in)visibility and displacement of marginalised habitats and questions which systems are thereby supported, maintained and reproduced. From oil-drilling in the Ecuadorian rainforest, the extermination of insect populations on an unprecedented scale, to the inaccessibility to housing due to the abolition of the antidiscrimination law in the Berlin housing market:

What responsibilities do we - as architects and spatial practitioners - assume towards these precarious conditions to which we have become used to? What does it mean for the practice of architecture to question its fundamental narrative of growth, extractivism and progress? Can an active engagement with decolonial theories and practices help us understand these realities as a series of discontinuities and trace their interconnectedness?