“A compendium of queer place-making”: queer spaces in Argentina, India and Nicaragua 

 

Facundo Revuelta, Sara Yaoska Herrera Dixon, Ekam Singh

This event springs from the recent publication of Queer Spaces: an Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places & Stories (RIBA Publishing), that charts the plurality of queer life throughout time and place – stories enacted through spaces. Three of the book’s authors, Sara Yaoska Herrera Dixon, Facundo Revuelta and Ekam Singh will examine significant spaces respectively of Nicaraguan, Argentinian and Indian queer life. 

Queer Spaces, co-edited by Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell, a magisterial re-imagining of architecture’s possibilities, profiles c. 100 global queer spaces, charted by 55 international authors. Prof. Susan Styker, Executive Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly described the book as an “eye-opening compendium of queer place-making”. These talks will examine spaces and stories conspicuously missing from the canon of architectural history, to unravel more holistic truths, and to include much wider-ranging human experiences within the orbit of our profession. 

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Facundo Revuelta (he/him) is an architect and lecturer of Gender Studies at the College of Architecture, Design and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires and at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences.

Sara Yaoska Herrera Dixon is a Nicaraguan/British architecture and art researcher, creative practitioner and translator. Her current research interests include place-naming, urban semantics and media landscapes. She is currently developing a public space intervention in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia and working with the RIBA's TAU -The Architects Underground.

Ekam Singh (he/him) is an architect and writer based in New York City, an MArch candidate at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture. 

The event will be introduced and moderated by Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell.