MAS Context Fall Talks 2021

Vigilantism issue launch

September 18, 2021 at 7PM

MAS Context guest editors Germane Barnes and Shawhin Roudbari, along with graphic designer Bobby Joe Smith III, and contributors Could Be Architecture, Ashley Bigham, Jennifer Bonner, and Sekou Cooke presented our issue dedicated to the topic of Vigilantism. The event took place at Principle Barbers.

Contributors

Vigilantism

The Vigilantism issue explores spaces of vigilantism, both historically and today. What are the spatial dimensions of vigilante encounters, segregation, violence, and exclusion, or conversely emancipation, liberation, and inclusion? Threshold, circulation, private vs. public, and other architectural delineations of space have become the subject of much controversy as footage of sexist and racist policing of these spaces emerge. Beyond spatial dimensions, which regulatory, institutional, aesthetic, and material expressions of vigilantism does architecture condition? What is vigilante behavior in highly digital and post-digital space? In pop-culture? In new media? How do technology and design become means for cultivating and expressing those behaviors? How do contentious political movements respond to, and draw from, vigilantism? What are the micro-, meso-, and macro-level dynamics of sociospatial acts of violence? Can vigilantism ever be good? Liberatory? And what are ways aggressors, resistors, and witnesses take on characteristics of vigilantes?

The issue features contributions by architects, architectural historians, curators, designers, educators, policy strategists, researchers, and writers. The list of contributors include Emanuel Admassu, Laida Aguirre, Joseph Altshuler, Atelier Mey, Germane Barnes, Ashley Bigham, Jennifer Bonner, Galo Canizares, Sean Canty, Sekou Cooke, Krystina François, Jia Yi Gu, A.L. Hu, Demar Matthews, Katherine McKittrick, Zack Morrison, Jennifer Newsom, Cyrus Peñarroyo, Gary Riichirō Fox, Shawhin Roudbari, Andrew Santa Lucia, and Chat Travieso.

This event is a partner program of the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Our thanks to Mark Waite for the photographs and Bobby Price of Principal Barbers for his support to this event.

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Vigilantism issue launch. © Mark Waite.

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From left to right: Julie Michiels, Iker Gil, Joseph Altshuler, Bobby Joe Smith III, Ashley Bigham, Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Mark Waite.

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From left to right: Ashley Bigham, Jennifer Bonner, Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Mark Waite.

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From left to right: Ashley Bigham, Jennifer Bonner, Sekou Cooke, Germane Barnes, Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Mark Waite.

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Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Iker Gil.

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From left to right: Ashley Bigham, Jennifer Bonner, Sekou Cooke, Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Iker Gil.

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From left to right: Erik Herrmann, Shawhin Roudbari, Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Mark Waite.

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Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Mark Waite.

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Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Mark Waite.

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Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Iker Gil.

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Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Iker Gil.

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Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Mark Waite.

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Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Mark Waite.

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From left to right: Iker Gil, Germane Barnes, Sekou Cooke, Bobby Joe Smith III, Jennifer Bonner, Ashley Bigham, Shawhin Roudbari, Vigilantism issue launch at Principle Barbers, Chicago. © Mark Waite.

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