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Zeynep Kezer
@zeynepkezer.bsky.social
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Historian of places, lurker of the internets
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Some thoughts on the recent spate of building in Harput #heritage #Armenians #hauntings
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PLATFORM: A Ghostly Landscape: Harput Between Confabulation and Denudation
I. Confabulations On a hot August morning, I am traveling by minibus with my friend Mustafa, a local historian, to Harput from Elazığ , leaving behind a city sprawling across the plain at a scale t...
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August 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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@platformspace.bsky.social last week we shared Zohreh Soltani's insights about the changing meanings of Tehran's famous #Azadi monument, most recently as part of the #WomenLifeFreedom movement

#jinjianazadi
March 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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#Nusantra –the future #capital of #Indonesia ’s #Nusantara, Robin Hartanto Honggare argues, employs the same #extractivist spatial, social, and economic logic of #plantations as Dutch #colonialism

#colonial #agriculture #decolonization #architecture
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PLATFORM: The Plantation Logic of Nusantara
In early 2025, Indonesians learned that Jakarta remained the nation’s capital, at least for the time being. The capital was supposed to shift to Nusantara, the newly built city in East Kalimantan...
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March 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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This week @platformspace.bsky.social Noah Allison and Víctor Cano Ciborro map street hustling practices by an #unhoused #LosAngeles resident to discuss the pervasive challenges the marginalized face in navigating cities.
#homelessness #urbancartography #publicinfrastructure #LA
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PLATFORM: Street Hustling in Los Angeles
In the early months of the pandemic I, Noah Allison, was waiting to order tacos al pastor from a truck at a gas station in my neighborhood when a tall, dark, muscular man approached me. He had a big s...
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March 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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On strike against the destruction of public education #ucu
March 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Re-posting: If you're looking for a primer to appreciate the latest political developments in the US, see this @platformspace.bsky.social by the brilliant @rogerjburrows.bsky.social

#NRx #darkenlightenment #libertecture #seasteads

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PLATFORM: NRx: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed
The rise of J.D. Vance to the Vice Presidency of the United States marks a significant, unsettling turn in American politics, reflecting the mainstreaming of neoreactionary (NRx) ideologies that seek ...
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February 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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At @platformspace.bsky.social this week: on the third anniversary of #Russianinvasion of #Ukraine, Kateryna Malaia and Philipp Meuser write about how they planned to document mass-housing in Ukraine both as #housinghistory and for post-war reconstruction

#Ukranianwar

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PLATFORM: Mass Housing in Ukraine: War, Past, Future
Housing is the most ubiquitous urban typology. Housing is also the essential armature of the human condition. Perhaps more than any other architectural types, housing determines how city dwellers cons...
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February 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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In the aftermath of #LAFires, this week @platformspace.bsky.social Anousheh Kehar invites us to rethink our relationship with the #environment and re-examine the value of #indigeneouspractices of #landscape management and #livingwithfire

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PLATFORM: Fire and Collective Futures
The LA fires have drastically amplified the features of climate collapse in the fire-prone terrain—not least the tragedy of people losing loved ones, communities, and homes. Meanwhile, media co...
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February 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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post-post-Cold War
February 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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The precarious state of the British academia with "Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses are in prospect."
Yes, we all seem to work in academic plantation at the pleasure of our overlords--Labour or Tory does not seem to matter in a marketized world
February 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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AI doesn't want you to live there!
Read the terrifying piece by @rogerjburrows.bsky.social on @platformspace.bsky.social this week, to see how #algorithmicsystems impact the rental market

#eigencapital #rentalmarkets #risk-profiling #tenancy
PLATFORM: Finding a Place to Live in an Ordinal Society
Let’s begin with three vignettes, each featuring a young person in a different city—London, York and Sydney—all navigating the challenges of finding a private rental property in a global housing marke...
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February 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Read about the new schools project in Shenzhen, China with an experimental approach to public design governance, characterized by joint exhibitions, open competitions, collective pilot projects, and public participation, this week in @platformspace.bsky.social

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February 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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This week on @platformspace.bsky.social, Alex Sayf Cummings considers The Brutalist a film about Lazlo Toth, a Jewish architect, whose life is destroyed by the Holocaust.
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PLATFORM: The Brutalist and the Nightmare of the American Dream
This article was originally published on Tropics of Meta .   The French philosopher Simone Weil once said that “the beauty of the world is like the mouth of a labyrinth.” She went on to tell ...
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January 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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After a break over the holidays, @platformspace.bsky.social is back this week with a piece about special development zones...

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PLATFORM: From City to Metropolis: Planning without Politics in Hong Kong
In a New York Times article on the “For-Profit City” of Próspera, Rachel Corbett situates this new techno-bureaucratic venture off the Honduran coast in relation to nearly 5,400 special economic z...
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January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Cabinet position?
Chiwetel Ejiofor reads possibly the funniest letter of recommendation ever
YouTube video by Letters Live
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January 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Maps matter
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jan 8
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, rejected several of President-elect Trump’s assertions about her country and joked that the U.S. should be called “Mexican America” after Trump said the Gulf of Mexico should be renamed the Gulf of America.
Poking Fun at Trump, Mexico’s President Suggests U.S. Should be Called ‘Mexican America’
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico also said Donald Trump was ill-informed when he said Mexico was “essentially run by the cartels.”
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January 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Trio
January 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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CDG at night
December 22, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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Too close to the bone:

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A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester
Dear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. In this letter, I will offer information ...
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December 5, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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RIBA President’s Medals
It was a joy to be a jury member for the dissertation awards
Such good work, great co-judges
#RIBA #PresidentsMedals
December 4, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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Dijana O. Apostolski @platformspace.bsky.social that by purposefully undecorated spaces in early modern Italian villas served as racial casts, reifying preconceptions about the "natural" exploitability of racialized and enslaved workers bodies.
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PLATFORM: Undecorated: Early Modern Italian Villas as Racial Casts
When they were not preoccupied with laborious errands, early modern domestic workers and enslaved peoples recuperated in the basements, mezzanines, and garrets of their patrons’ opulent palazzi and vi...
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December 2, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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This week on @platformspace.bsky.social, Alex Schultz explores the role of water and local resistance in the conception, design, and downfall of the model village of Qurna spearheaded by modernist architect Hassan Fathy.
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PLATFORM: Water Infrastructure and Resistance at Qurna: Re-reading Hassan Fathy’s Architecture for the Poor
“My father avoided the country. To him it was a place full of flies, mosquitos, and polluted water, and he forbade his children to have anything to do with it.” – Hassan Fathy[1] During two recent...
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November 25, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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We are moving from X to BlueSky!!
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PLATFORM is now on Bluesky! Follow us here for provocative, timely, and diverse conversations on the built environment!
November 21, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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This week in PLATFORM, in a timely (and shocking) essay, my brilliant former colleague @rogerjburrows.bsky.social unpacks the webs of influence underpinning the emergent political situation (and not just limited to the US) and their spatial implications... Brave New World
PLATFORM: NRx: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed
The rise of J.D. Vance to the Vice Presidency of the United States marks a significant, unsettling turn in American politics, reflecting the mainstreaming of neoreactionary (NRx) ideologies that seek ...
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November 18, 2024 at 5:05 PM