Reimagining property relations or, social use for collective futures

with 
 Anousheh Gul Kehar 
#abolition geography #anti-colonial imaginaries #property relations


“[T]hinking anew about the meaning of justice and freedom require of us nothing less than radical acts of imagining how we might relate to and use things that we usually expect to own, and how to collectively create the conditions for turning away from property as we know it.”  (Brenna Bhandar, Colonial Lives of Property)

The workshop will be set up as a space of collective learning to study ways of reconfiguring property relations that defy and resist capitalist and commodity logics. Through readings and selected case studies, we will look at how people across geographies attempt to undo the dominance of private property and individual ownership. Following this, the workshop hopes to cultivate tools to enable practices of reimagining, undoing, and intervening in property logics and its legal constructions. That is, making space for “other ways of relating to land.” (Brenna Bhandar, Colonial Lives of Property)

The processes of collective learning and reimagining will take the forms of texts, image-making, collages, moving images, and possible material studies.


Anousheh Gul Kehar (usa, ind/pak) is an architectural designer and researcher living in Vienna and Graz. Her practice reflects on anti-imperial liberation, abolition geography, and world-making across several regions. She is currently part of the Studio Space Popular team at the Angewandte’s Institute of Architecture. Before that, she held teaching and research positions at the IZK Institute for Contemporary Art (TU Graz).


︎︎︎ MEDIA  reading, walking, crafting

︎︎︎ LOCATION Main location

︎︎︎ TEACHING LANGUAGE English

︎︎︎ WHAT TO BRING device with internet access, paper, writing/drawing utensils and optionally, phone/device for photographs and video recordings.

︎︎︎ REQUIREMENTS  No specific requirements

︎︎︎ MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS  6

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