Manifesto

We unionise all architectural workers in these beliefs:

• We fight against the architecture that capitalises on crisis
• We know that housing can be truly affordable
• We oppose the eradication of bodies, memories, and landscapes
• We believe in an equal right to housing
• We will not be exploited to push out the exploited
• We take responsibility for our actions
• We acknowledge that our lives have been built on the destruction of others
• We will not disguise destructive development with a friendly facade
• We do not see beauty in death
• We will destroy the image
• We will expose the corruption
• We refuse to be complacent or complicit
• We speak alongside the people whose voices are systematically silenced
• We will not weed our streets to sow the seeds of regeneration
• We are against the architecture of control
• We do not accept that demolition is necessary or inevitable
• We believe in building social and economic networks before physical structures
• Architecture is inherently a practice of change. We have the power to choose how.

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