Hannah Kellsey le Roux
@hannahkleroux.bsky.social
Architect, PhD in lived modernism, angry about extractivism.
Located between the University of Sheffield and greater Johannesburg.
Located between the University of Sheffield and greater Johannesburg.
Pinned
Asbestos mountains, before being pounded and shed around the planet, and two witnessed. Engraved by William John Burchell (1781-1863) - "Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa".
Just came here to drop this beautiful cryptic image from my son’s debut first author paper accepted Scientific Reports @nature.com
September 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Just came here to drop this beautiful cryptic image from my son’s debut first author paper accepted Scientific Reports @nature.com
Cement screen created in mid-1960s by Adebisi Akinji, student of Suzanne Wenger at Mbari School. Photo by Eliot Elisofon.
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August 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Cement screen created in mid-1960s by Adebisi Akinji, student of Suzanne Wenger at Mbari School. Photo by Eliot Elisofon.
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We do geeky stuff too! An impressive first paper on aid networks for Martin Kohlberger. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
June 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We do geeky stuff too! An impressive first paper on aid networks for Martin Kohlberger. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
About Mexico's pavilion at the 2025 Venice Biennale, but actually about the whole shebang www.platformspace.net/home/chinamp...
PLATFORM: Chinampa Veneta: A Scenography of Extractivism at the Venice Biennale
Para leer este artículo en español, haga clic aquí . In the run-up to the 19th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts and Li...
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June 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
About Mexico's pavilion at the 2025 Venice Biennale, but actually about the whole shebang www.platformspace.net/home/chinamp...
Borders have been a fact of African life since 1885 (and before). As elephants never forget. John Muafangejo (1943-1987). Map of South West Africa, 1976
June 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Borders have been a fact of African life since 1885 (and before). As elephants never forget. John Muafangejo (1943-1987). Map of South West Africa, 1976
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Look at this beautiful Trail!
This is the #SlowWays #NationalParksTrail - connecting all of Britain’s National Parks and our National Park City.
Who's up for helping to collectively walk and check all 3,000km during the month of June?
Can you help us? buildstories.slowways.org/join-the-nat...
This is the #SlowWays #NationalParksTrail - connecting all of Britain’s National Parks and our National Park City.
Who's up for helping to collectively walk and check all 3,000km during the month of June?
Can you help us? buildstories.slowways.org/join-the-nat...
May 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Look at this beautiful Trail!
This is the #SlowWays #NationalParksTrail - connecting all of Britain’s National Parks and our National Park City.
Who's up for helping to collectively walk and check all 3,000km during the month of June?
Can you help us? buildstories.slowways.org/join-the-nat...
This is the #SlowWays #NationalParksTrail - connecting all of Britain’s National Parks and our National Park City.
Who's up for helping to collectively walk and check all 3,000km during the month of June?
Can you help us? buildstories.slowways.org/join-the-nat...
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#EMCA and all - please sign if you can to help save jobs at Newcastle University #AcademicSky @ucu.org.uk
Please read and kindly consider signing in support of academics at Newcastle University (including from our team in Applied Linguistics & Communication) who are facing the threat of redundancy this summer:
www.change.org/p/end-unnece...
www.change.org/p/end-unnece...
Sign the Petition
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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May 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
#EMCA and all - please sign if you can to help save jobs at Newcastle University #AcademicSky @ucu.org.uk
The scholarly architecture journal *Clara*, associated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles, has issued a call for guest editors for a future issue of the journal. Proposals are due June 30.
clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/librar.... For information about *Clara*, see clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/about.
clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/librar.... For information about *Clara*, see clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/about.
CLARA#13 : Appel à directeur·ices de dossier
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May 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The scholarly architecture journal *Clara*, associated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles, has issued a call for guest editors for a future issue of the journal. Proposals are due June 30.
clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/librar.... For information about *Clara*, see clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/about.
clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/librar.... For information about *Clara*, see clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/about.
CFP, good people, for those of you still doing conferences www.virtual-lsa.uk/ahra2025/
AHRA 2025 – Conceptualising Environment(s): continuity and change
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April 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
CFP, good people, for those of you still doing conferences www.virtual-lsa.uk/ahra2025/
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Its not too late to undo those vineyards theconversation.com/lost-fynbos-...
Lost fynbos seeds from underground ‘time capsules’ in South Africa can grow again – new study
Hundreds of ancient fynbos species could regrow and restore a former pine plantation on Cape Town’s Table Mountain, but only if the remaining pine trees are removed.
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March 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Its not too late to undo those vineyards theconversation.com/lost-fynbos-...
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A while ago, I wrote some thoughts on how we need to constantly contest and question how we share knowledge to imagine other possible worlds—and which are the sources of those imaginations.
The text comes from a lecture (2022) accompanied by a beautiful photo by my dear friend @nina-cc.bsky.social
The text comes from a lecture (2022) accompanied by a beautiful photo by my dear friend @nina-cc.bsky.social
Brief Wandering From the Politics of Citation to Other Matters of Care - URGENT PEDAGOGIES
Urgent Pedagogies is a project and space for inquiry, sharing knowledge and experience, and consists of public events and an emerging online platform and archive, highlighting and discussing practice ...
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March 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A while ago, I wrote some thoughts on how we need to constantly contest and question how we share knowledge to imagine other possible worlds—and which are the sources of those imaginations.
The text comes from a lecture (2022) accompanied by a beautiful photo by my dear friend @nina-cc.bsky.social
The text comes from a lecture (2022) accompanied by a beautiful photo by my dear friend @nina-cc.bsky.social
Reposted by Hannah Kellsey le Roux
🌟 Free access Editorial 🌟 Tracing architecture through the entangled - By Deljana Iossifova & Doreen Bernath
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March 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🌟 Free access Editorial 🌟 Tracing architecture through the entangled - By Deljana Iossifova & Doreen Bernath
www.tandfonline.com/...
www.tandfonline.com/...
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The massacre of artisanal miners in Stilfontein exposes the South African state’s violent allegiance to corporate interests and a long legacy of extraction and dispossession. africasacountry.com/2025/03/mini...
Mining, murder, and the machinery of exploitation
The massacre of artisanal miners in Stilfontein exposes the South African state’s violent allegiance to corporate interests and a long legacy of extraction and dispossession.
africasacountry.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The massacre of artisanal miners in Stilfontein exposes the South African state’s violent allegiance to corporate interests and a long legacy of extraction and dispossession. africasacountry.com/2025/03/mini...
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‘The police decision to cut off food supplies at the Stilfontein mines wasn’t prompted by safety concerns, but, rather, was a response to government claims that informal mining costs the South African economy $3 billion.’
Helen Sullivan in South Africa:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helen Sullivan in South Africa:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helen Sullivan · Diary: Trapped in the Mine
Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries stopped...
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March 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘The police decision to cut off food supplies at the Stilfontein mines wasn’t prompted by safety concerns, but, rather, was a response to government claims that informal mining costs the South African economy $3 billion.’
Helen Sullivan in South Africa:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helen Sullivan in South Africa:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fanon carved in concrete in Stockholm's Östermalmstorg subway station in this beautiful work by Siri Derkert, 1961-1965. She was then 77.
March 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Fanon carved in concrete in Stockholm's Östermalmstorg subway station in this beautiful work by Siri Derkert, 1961-1965. She was then 77.
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The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
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March 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
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Here is a map I made just incase anyone is confused as to what the present and history of regional conflict in Eastern Congo is about. Data: Global Forest Watch
February 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Here is a map I made just incase anyone is confused as to what the present and history of regional conflict in Eastern Congo is about. Data: Global Forest Watch
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'Reading our Otherness Together,' a collective reading workshop for the Parity Talks at the D-ARCH @ethzurich.bsky.social by @care-xyz.bsky.social
"By reading aloud together we allow the configuration of new kinds of spaces where empathy, otherness and alterity prove stronger than ideologies."
"By reading aloud together we allow the configuration of new kinds of spaces where empathy, otherness and alterity prove stronger than ideologies."
Collective Reading Workshop. Reading our Otherness Together - Parity Talks
Parity Talks - Collective Reading Workshop. Reading our Otherness Together
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February 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
'Reading our Otherness Together,' a collective reading workshop for the Parity Talks at the D-ARCH @ethzurich.bsky.social by @care-xyz.bsky.social
"By reading aloud together we allow the configuration of new kinds of spaces where empathy, otherness and alterity prove stronger than ideologies."
"By reading aloud together we allow the configuration of new kinds of spaces where empathy, otherness and alterity prove stronger than ideologies."
Lagos nostalgia today. Suzanne Wenger mural with anonymous additions, 2003.
February 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Lagos nostalgia today. Suzanne Wenger mural with anonymous additions, 2003.
Such a tragic story: unregulated imports and distribution meeting breakdowns in refuse collection and people taking things into their own hands. Six beautiful children died. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Agriculture Minister faces scrutiny as South Africa delays ban on toxic organophosphates after child deaths
The manufacturer and distributor of highly neurotoxic pesticides Aldicarb and Terbufos, which contributed to the deaths of six Soweto children in 2024, was found to be non-compliant in every regulator...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
February 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Such a tragic story: unregulated imports and distribution meeting breakdowns in refuse collection and people taking things into their own hands. Six beautiful children died. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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🌍 Neuer Bericht «One-Earth Fashion» 🌱 33 Transformationsziele für ein faires Modesystem bis 2030, das die planetaren Grenzen respektiert. Wir liefern Denk- und Handlungsanstösse für Politik, Aktivismus, Gewerkschaften und Forschung. Jetzt lesen 👉 www.publiceye.ch/de/themen/mo...
#FairFashion
#FairFashion
Neuer Bericht: One-Earth Fashion
Das Modesystem benötigt eine radikale Wende. Denn es ist offensichtlich: Die Textil-, Bekleidungs-, Lederwaren- und Schuhfertigung gehören zu den umweltschädlichsten und ungerechtesten Industriebranch...
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December 9, 2024 at 12:46 PM
🌍 Neuer Bericht «One-Earth Fashion» 🌱 33 Transformationsziele für ein faires Modesystem bis 2030, das die planetaren Grenzen respektiert. Wir liefern Denk- und Handlungsanstösse für Politik, Aktivismus, Gewerkschaften und Forschung. Jetzt lesen 👉 www.publiceye.ch/de/themen/mo...
#FairFashion
#FairFashion
Shell out to avoid shelling out africasacountry.com/2024/12/shel...
Shell’s exit scam
Shell's so-called divestment from Nigeria’s Niger Delta is a calculated move to evade accountability, leaving behind both environmental and economic devastation.
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December 23, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Shell out to avoid shelling out africasacountry.com/2024/12/shel...