Everyday places are sites in which diverse needs, desires, and interests intersect. Beyond negotiating and building a spatial program, architects, artists, and designers shape a program of rich social relations that take place and evolve. As we intervene into the built and natural environment, we engage with intimate (his)stories, community life, and cultural identities.
How can diverse desires – or desire for diversity – inform architecture and design? What are ways for exploring and negotiating multiple and even conflicting interests? Can architecture and design be an arena for politics – and poetics – of identity?