What
This newsletter is the outlet for the open-source research portion of Support Structures—a multi-media platform for thinking through and taking on the systemic barriers to the diverse practice and innovative production of (public) art and architecture.
Support Structures centers on past and present (public) art and architecture policies as a springboard for advancing our collective agreements with art, architecture, and the built environment. It brings together and grows through insights from governmental agencies, philanthropic organizations, community groups, artists and architects, and activists and critics to inform new approaches to multiplying the voices, expanding the toolkit, and balancing the economics behind the design and making of our constructed future.
Find, herein, a(n edited) collection of essays that:
(1) document the operations, achievements, and challenges of existing (non-) governmental programs and provisions for art and architecture;
(2) describe issues key to art, architecture, and the built environment as public project;
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(3) speculate on potential evolutions in and for the intersection of art, architecture, and the commons.
When
This is a true periodical; essays will be published periodically.
Where
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Who
Andrea Dietz is the architect of Support Structures. She also is an architect-architect and a design educator. Andrea started the Support Structures newsletter as a discursive first-pass and foundational archive for more and other efforts to advance art, architecture, and the built environment as a public priority.
