How might architecture reassert the value of human work? Listen to OffReOnshore, a new audio documentary conceived and developed by Víctor Muñoz Sanz (Section of Urban Design), during his residence at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) as 2015–2016 Emerging Curator.
The documentary, produced by the CCA, explores the legacy of industrial offshoring, the effects of corporate actions on the built environment of labour, and the role of architecture in bringing closer ideas of work and the good life.
In recent decades, economies of the Global South have been shaped by offshore production and labour-intensive industrialization, which often come with dangerous work conditions, inadequate wages, and sexual exploitation, notably in the garment industry. Today, working and living conditions in and around those factories continue to deteriorate under the pressure of increasing South-to-South competition, economic protectionism, relocalization or reshoring, automation, and the loose framing of corporate responsibility offshore. So, where do we go from here?
It features Keller Easterling (Yale School of Architecture), Rosey Hurst (Impactt Ltd.), Sarah Labowitz (NYU), Rahul Mehrotra (Harvard Graduate of Design), Anne Elizabeth Moore (writer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay (Royal Tropical Institute), Raúl Cárdenas Osuna (architect and artist), and Wouter Vanstiphout (Professor of Design as Politics, TU Delft). They discuss contemporary opportunities to build sustainable futures beyond offshore production, and the role of design and architecture in reasserting the value of human work
Available on iTunes [https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/canadian-centre-for-architecture-centre-canadien-darchitecture/id269869174?mt=2] and on the CCA Website [https://www.cca.qc.ca/offreonshore].
