{"id":100834,"date":"2022-11-08T15:56:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?post_type=metro_viewpoint&#038;p=100834"},"modified":"2022-12-23T22:33:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T22:33:55","slug":"spatializing-justice-teddy-cruz-fonna-forman","status":"publish","type":"metro_viewpoint","link":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/spatializing-justice-teddy-cruz-fonna-forman\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman&#8217;s  <em>Spatializing Justice<\/em> Reinterprets Architecture as a Social Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-sandow-article-header article-header\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-header\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a yellow tinted image of scaffolding\" class=\"wp-image-100837\" width=\"1735\" height=\"893\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Scaffold for Things to Happen, Laureles Canyon, Tijuana BC, Mexico, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, 2017. Courtesy MIT Press. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group article-header_intro none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"article-date\" aria-label=\"Post Date\">November 8, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"size-large wp-block-heading\">Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman&#8217;s  <em>Spatializing Justice<\/em> Reinterprets Architecture as a Social Medium<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"summary size-regular\">In their latest book, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman propose a new kind of architecture that confronts social and economic inequality and uneven urban growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-sandow-byline byline size-regular\"><span>By: <\/span><a href=\"\/tag\/teddy-cruz-and-fonna-forman\">Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"social-share\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fviewpoints%2Fspatializing-justice-teddy-cruz-fonna-forman%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M9 8h-3v4h3v12h5v-12h3.642l.358-4h-4v-1.667c0-.955.192-1.333 1.115-1.333h2.885v-5h-3.808c-3.596 0-5.192 1.583-5.192 4.615v3.385z\" \/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fviewpoints%2Fspatializing-justice-teddy-cruz-fonna-forman%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M4.98 3.5c0 1.381-1.11 2.5-2.48 2.5s-2.48-1.119-2.48-2.5c0-1.38 1.11-2.5 2.48-2.5s2.48 1.12 2.48 2.5zm.02 4.5h-5v16h5v-16zm7.982 0h-4.968v16h4.969v-8.399c0-4.67 6.029-5.052 6.029 0v8.399h4.988v-10.131c0-7.88-8.922-7.593-11.018-3.714v-2.155z\" \/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fviewpoints%2Fspatializing-justice-teddy-cruz-fonna-forman%2F&#038;description=Teddy+Cruz+and+Fonna+Forman%26%238217%3Bs++%3Cem%3ESpatializing+Justice%3C%2Fem%3E+Reinterprets+Architecture+as+a+Social+Medium\" target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"> <path d=\"M12 0c-6.627 0-12 5.372-12 12 0 5.084 3.163 9.426 7.627 11.174-.105-.949-.2-2.405.042-3.441.218-.937 1.407-5.965 1.407-5.965s-.359-.719-.359-1.782c0-1.668.967-2.914 2.171-2.914 1.023 0 1.518.769 1.518 1.69 0 1.029-.655 2.568-.994 3.995-.283 1.194.599 2.169 1.777 2.169 2.133 0 3.772-2.249 3.772-5.495 0-2.873-2.064-4.882-5.012-4.882-3.414 0-5.418 2.561-5.418 5.207 0 1.031.397 2.138.893 2.738.098.119.112.224.083.345l-.333 1.36c-.053.22-.174.267-.402.161-1.499-.698-2.436-2.889-2.436-4.649 0-3.785 2.75-7.262 7.929-7.262 4.163 0 7.398 2.967 7.398 6.931 0 4.136-2.607 7.464-6.227 7.464-1.216 0-2.359-.631-2.75-1.378l-.748 2.853c-.271 1.043-1.002 2.35-1.492 3.146 1.124.347 2.317.535 3.554.535 6.627 0 12-5.373 12-12 0-6.628-5.373-12-12-12z\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" \/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"mailto:?body=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fviewpoints%2Fspatializing-justice-teddy-cruz-fonna-forman%2F&#038;subject=Teddy+Cruz+and+Fonna+Forman%26%238217%3Bs++%3Cem%3ESpatializing+Justice%3C%2Fem%3E+Reinterprets+Architecture+as+a+Social+Medium\" target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M12 12.713l-11.985-9.713h23.97l-11.985 9.713zm0 2.574l-12-9.725v15.438h24v-15.438l-12 9.725z\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column empty-header-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\"><em>The following is an excerpt from&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9780262544535\/spatializing-justice\/\">Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks<\/a> <em>by Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman. Copyright \u00a9 2022 by MIT Press. Reprinted by permission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\"><strong>Return the Body to Democracy: For Michael Sorkin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">During the worst pandemic in a century, American society is divided between those who wear masks and those who don\u2019t, between those eager to be vaccinated and those who refuse. The dissolution of social reciprocity, the collision between collective commitment and rugged individualism, between public and private, remain the single greatest obstacle to healing our society and rebuilding more equitable and inclusive cities as we slowly emerge from this pandemic. And climate change is coming. COVID-19 was the canary in the coalmine, like the universe testing us to get our priorities straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">We lost our friend Michael Sorkin in the earliest days of the pandemic. We hear every day about viral mutations, and we wonder: can the virus\u2014this virus that took Michael\u2014mutate into an unexpected antidote to selfishness? Can this moment expose the collective costs of austerity, of eroding the social safety net, of neglecting public challenges like racism, climate disruption, deepening inequality, and surging nationalism everywhere?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_content is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9780262544535.jpg\" alt=\"a yellow book cover that says &quot;spatializing justice: building blocks by Teddy Cruz and Fonna FOrman&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-100842\" width=\"376\" height=\"531\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Courtesy MIT Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\"><strong>Building Blocks: An Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Anticipating new ways of thinking and doing means confronting the clich\u00e9s of our creative fields and rethinking who we serve, expanding our range to contact domains that have remained peripheral to design, and cultivating a new kind of collective advocacy that transforms architecture into a social medium capable of challenging urban norms and spatializing public commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">We have learned a great deal about spatializing justice studying Latin America lineages of participatory urbanization over the last decades. In our lab we research municipalities that have \u201cco-produced\u201d the city from the bottom-up, from Porto Alegre and Curitiba, Brazil to Bogot. and Medellin, Colombia. We have been documenting these cases in close collaboration and dialogue with the key political and civic actors who led them. These cities have taught us that urban transformation must begin with social transformation\u2015and that design has an essential role to play. We believe that architects and urban designers can be facilitators of a new civic conversation, interlocutors of institutional memory, orchestrators of renewed public priorities, curators of inclusive civic programming, and designers of fresh formal and aesthetic categories that problematize dominant neoliberal agendas in the city that manipulate and monetize relations between the social and the spatial. We can design cultural interventions that expose the lie of trickle-down economics, that uproot anti-democratic myths that sow cynicism about progressive governance, undermine public culture and lead the electorate astray. Architects and urban designers can help reinvigorate a basic social contract that anchors individual well-being in collective well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-1-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"a yellow tinted diagram by Estudio teddy cruz + fonna forman\" class=\"wp-image-100839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-1-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-1-768x497.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">De-Border, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, 2021. Courtesy MIT Press. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Reinterpreting architecture as a social medium capable of changing hearts and minds, and reorienting urbanization, begins by critically engaging the conditions that have produced our urban crises. These conditions become the material for design. Mobilizing urban conflict as a catalyst for design means exposing the controversies and contradictions inscribed in a particular socio-spatial condition, the exclusionary policies and the hidden histories of oppression. These critical investigations motivate a sense of urgency, and help to orient thinking and practical design methods. In our case, these critical investigations typically confirm our intuition that the first site of intervention is not a physical site, but a strategic detour from architecture into sedimented institutional protocols, harmful social norms, discriminatory financialization practices, the war between public and private interests, or the gap between topdown resources and bottom-up urban creativity. Traveling at the edges of the architecture field demands epistemic humility and openness to new worlds of knowledge and practice. Our aspiration is to partner with diverse urban actors to co-produce new knowledges and strategies, and to co-design civic and political processes that prioritize social, racial and environmental justice, urban pedagogies that render the complexity of contested urban dynamics more accessible to diverse publics, and new economic collaborations among conventionally divided sectors to share the responsibility of public works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">In other words, we seek to design and fertilize a new political ground, new civic languages, from which new infrastructures for inclusion can emerge. In our practice, the design of physical projects is always linked with the design of processes, protocols and programs that aim to civicize and democratize the spaces, knowledges and resources of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-2-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"a yellow tinted diagram by Estudio teddy cruz + fonna forman\" class=\"wp-image-100840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-2-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-2-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image-2-768x497.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> A Local Mandala of Power, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, 2021. Courtesy MIT Press. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">This current period, marked by global pandemic, social rupture, institutional polarization and paralysis, the corrosion of democratic commitments, and innumerable crises across all imaginable registers, epistemic, social, economic, environmental and political, has culminated in what we perceive as a crisis of the public: a failure to tackle collectively the most urgent issues impacting our shared destiny. Given the planetary challenges we face in these early years of the twenty-first century, remaining socially relevant as architects and urban designers requires transforming our own design practices as critical sites of intervention, retooling ourselves, refreshing our approaches through new criteria, new clients, new briefs, new sites, new strategies of advocacy, and a new imperative to close the gap between artistic experimentation and social responsibility, the aspirations of the historic avant-garde in design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The moment seemed right for us to pause, to reflect on our own practice, and assemble key commitments\u2015what we call \u201cBuilding Blocks\u201d\u2015that have grounded our research-based practice over the last decades. We identified thirty of them and while we hesitate to characterize them as a manifesto, they are organized thematically as tight, impressionistic statements, manifesto-like in their brevity. While they have been generative for us, orienting our visualization projects, urban and architectural interventions, writing, exhibitions and pedagogies, we hope they might be useful to other designers and spatial practices as they reposition themselves in this evolving reality, to students who aspire to socially relevant, public-interest work, and to design educators who bear primary responsibility for nurturing the aspirations of a new generation and reorienting design education. Ultimately, we hope the Building Blocks will provoke conversation about the role of architects and designers in this next period of urbanization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size size-regular\"><strong>BUILDING BLOCKS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\">01 CONFRONT INEQUALITY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">02 CONSTRUCT THE POLITICAL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">03 RECUPERATE INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">04 DECOLONIZE KNOWLEDGE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">05 RADICALIZE THE LOCAL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">06 VISUALIZE URBAN CONFLICT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">07 TRANSGRESS BORDERS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">08 REIMAGINE JURISDICTION<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">09 COMPLICATE AUTONOMY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">10 TEMPORALIZE INFRASTRUCTURE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">11 TRANSLATE THE INFORMAL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">12 PERFORM CITIZENSHIP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">13 SOCIALIZE DENSITY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">14 RETHINK OWNERSHIP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">15 RESIST PRIVATIZATION<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\">16 DEMAND GENERATIVE ZONING<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">17 MOBILIZE NEIGHBORHOODS AS POLITICAL UNITS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">18 VALIDATE EVERYDAY WORK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">19 INTERVENE IN THE DEVELOPER\u2019S PROFORMA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">20 CODEVELOP WITH COMMUNITIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">21 TRANSFORM HOUSING BEYOND \u201cUNITS\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">22 TRANSCEND HOSPITALITY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">23 DEMOCRATIZE ACCESS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">24 ACTIVATE PUBLIC SPACE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">25 CURATE NEW URBAN PEDAGOGIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">26 CIVICIZE PLATFORMS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">27 DESIGN MEDIATION<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">28 TALK TO THE ENEMY ADVERSARY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">29 PROBLEMATIZE \u201cSUSTAINABILITY\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">30 RETOOL OURSELVES<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"comment size-regular\">Would you like to comment on this article? 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