As part of ASH’s residency at the 221A Gallery in Vancouver, the Pollyanna 圖書館 Library asked us to provide a bibliography of books to add to their collection that provide a written context to the four workshops we will be holding on the principles and practices of a socialist architecture. This is what we came up … Continue reading Bibliography for a Socialist Architecture: Pollyanna 圖書館 Library, Vancouver
Author: Simon Elmer
Holy Island
‘He therefore prepared to attack the Island of Mona.’ – Tacitus, Annals, XIV: 29 Understanding the struggle of Britons Against their Roman occupiers From the annals of Ancient writers, Is like reading of the resistance Of Londoners to their eviction In the pages of the British Press: Beyond the justice of the rulers, And the … Continue reading Holy Island
Trust for London: ASH application for funding, June 2019
1. About Your Organisation Architects for Social Housing (ASH), Community Interest Company, no. 10383452, founded in 2015. 2. Main Aims and Activities a) Summarise the work of your organisation in no more than 50 words. ASH was founded in 2015 to offer an architectural response to London’s housing crisis. We produce both design and policy alternatives … Continue reading Trust for London: ASH application for funding, June 2019
The Right to the City: ASH Residency at the 221A Gallery, Vancouver
‘Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.’ – Bertolt Brecht For a Socialist Architecture (under Capitalism) Within the overall socio-economic context of Western democracies today, in which there is a cross-party consensus from the political establishment on the marketisation of housing provision, and whatever party forms … Continue reading The Right to the City: ASH Residency at the 221A Gallery, Vancouver
This is the Colour of my Dreams: Human displacement and boundaries in our environment. Paintings by Vanessa Gould
The following text was commissioned by Vanessa Gould-Rakoczy to accompany the exhibition of her work at the MA Visual Arts Summer Show 2019, which is running from 11-17 July at the Camberwell College of Arts, London. The series from which these paintings are drawn was begun following her volunteer work in the refugee camps on the island … Continue reading This is the Colour of my Dreams: Human displacement and boundaries in our environment. Paintings by Vanessa Gould
Countless Cities: Photographs by Alessia Gammarota
It is estimated that today the earth is inhabited by 7.7 billion people. More than half the world’s population lives in urban environments, and the process of abandoning rural areas continues to escalate. Climate change, economic upheaval and global migration to cities will define the future of humanity. It seems incredible, but we do not … Continue reading Countless Cities: Photographs by Alessia Gammarota
Representing What? The Rt Hon. Sajid Javid, Home Secretary
Sajid Javid was elected to be the Conservative Member of Parliament for the West Midlands constituency of Bromsgrove with 33,493 votes in the General Election of 2017. Javid has held the seat since 2010, when he first entered politics. Before that Javid was a banker, in which he had a meteoric rise. In 1994 he … Continue reading Representing What? The Rt Hon. Sajid Javid, Home Secretary
The Persecution, Incarceration, Torture and Extra-Territorial Extradition of Julian Assange: Template for a letter to your Member of Parliament
This is a template for an e-mail in response to the United Nations report published last month on the collective persecution of Julian Assange, to be sent to the Members of Parliament and Peers who signed a letter to the Home Secretary calling for the extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden in violation of numerous … Continue reading The Persecution, Incarceration, Torture and Extra-Territorial Extradition of Julian Assange: Template for a letter to your Member of Parliament
Leaving the Garden: Brexit and the Housing Crisis
This presentation was given by ASH as part of a debate organised by Antarsya, an anti-capitalist co-operation of the Left in Greece, held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, on 15 June, 2019. A recording of the entire event, which included presentations by Michael Roberts and Nikos Kapitsinis, is available below. … Continue reading Leaving the Garden: Brexit and the Housing Crisis
Bring the Summer Home (The Poll Tax Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZZpiL74H2E&fbclid=IwAR0AQBDHk6YxfvYqwqnGzuT7TpF2nXptqbIuhgQikN8AfX852DVWOxxadQk Our King went forth to Normandy With grace and might and chivalry; The God for him wrought marvellously, Wherefore England may call and cry: ‘Deo Gratias!’ Part I The King went forth to Normandy, Pride of might and chivalry; Welsh and English longbowmen, Bondmen, serfs, were in the van. While at home men and … Continue reading Bring the Summer Home (The Poll Tax Song)
A Communist in Hong Kong 