our manifesto
The Agency of Spatial Affairs understands space not as a fixed setting but as something continually negotiated through movement, exchange, conflict, celebration and care.
We work with places not simply as subjects of study, but as sites where histories, materials, ecologies and communities become entangled.
We are interested in how these histories remain present in bodies, objects, rituals and environments, and in how spatial practice can make them perceptible without reducing their complexity.
Our projects create temporary settings in which overlooked histories can surface, collective memories can be assembled, and alternative relationships between people, places and more-than-human ecologies can be explored.
We use performative acts of gathering, from processions, walks and carnivals to collective mapping, storytelling and ritual, as ways of making these histories tangible in the present.
We work across and through architecture, art, design and public culture. We develop exhibitions, installations, performances, publications, and participatory processes that unfold over time. These are not simply ways of presenting research but ways of carrying it out.
Collaboration is central to our way of working. Every project grows through conversations with artists, designers, craftspeople, researchers, curators, community organisations and people whose knowledge comes from lived experiences.
At its heart, The Agency of Spatial Affairs is interested in the lives of spaces: how materials carry memory, how places are transformed through collective action, and how acts of making together cultivate different ways of inhabiting the world.
We work with places not simply as subjects of study, but as sites where histories, materials, ecologies and communities become entangled.
Our work is drawn to places where different worlds meet: neighbourhoods transformed by migration,
landscapes marked by extraction,
infrastructures that carry the legacies of colonialism,
everyday spaces sustained through acts of care,
and moments of more-than-human fabulation.
We are interested in how these histories remain present in bodies, objects, rituals and environments, and in how spatial practice can make them perceptible without reducing their complexity.
Our projects create temporary settings in which overlooked histories can surface, collective memories can be assembled, and alternative relationships between people, places and more-than-human ecologies can be explored.
The collision between counter-histories and the performative is a key tactic of our critical toolkit for spatial practices.
We understand counter-histories as stories that have been erased, displaced or overlooked.
We use performative acts of gathering, from processions, walks and carnivals to collective mapping, storytelling and ritual, as ways of making these histories tangible in the present.
We work across and through architecture, art, design and public culture. We develop exhibitions, installations, performances, publications, and participatory processes that unfold over time. These are not simply ways of presenting research but ways of carrying it out.
Collaboration is central to our way of working. Every project grows through conversations with artists, designers, craftspeople, researchers, curators, community organisations and people whose knowledge comes from lived experiences.
At its heart, The Agency of Spatial Affairs is interested in the lives of spaces: how materials carry memory, how places are transformed through collective action, and how acts of making together cultivate different ways of inhabiting the world.