The Architectural Review is 125 years from where it started. Rather than looking back, this issue looks forward to a series of possible futures. This is not a manifesto but room to imagine, and imagine differently.
Traversing propositional and speculative futures, the AR November issue marks the present as a turning point and poses the question: where do we go from here? Through essays, short stories, graphic novels, conversations, illustrations, a collage, a poem, a fable, a tapestry, we look to answer to this question and explore future-making in different forms. Each piece imagines the worlds we could build, entangling what we know of the present to a future of possibilities.
- A land of equal distribution, Steve Webb and Kate Dehler
- Stitched spaces, Amélie de Bonnières
- A woodland where the Squirrel and the Rats share a meal, Will Hayter
- A future collectively salvaged from the rubble, Beyond Gender
- Kinfrastructure, Edit
- A school willing to take risks, Francesca Hughes and Lesley Lokko as told to Manon Mollard
- Architecture without extraction, Zosia Dzierżawska and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
- A city of rest, Raquel Meseguer
- Grow rooms in a flooded future, Cassandre Greenberg
- A city that wages love, Ama Josephine Budge and Eric Gyamfi
- The queer white hole, Frances Whorrall-Campbell
- A place of safety, Khensani de Klerk
- A world without prisons, Rachel Komich
- Everywhere – freely, Hokūlani K Aikau and Alan Pelaez Lopez as told to Bani Amor
- Kawkab of immigrants (A planet of immigrants), Aude Nasr
- Up the slopes of Mount Parnitha, Ojo Taiye
- Editorial contributor Edwina Attlee