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WHAT IS QUEER SPACE?
“Queer space is not one size fits all” - Will Sherry, Spectrum Center
“[Queerness] is an open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances, resonances, lapses, and excesses of meaning.” -
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Jaffer Kolb
“Queer space or queer architecture is not simply a place used or appropriated by non-heterosexual people, but a performative strategy to challenge the behaviours, rules, expectations and situations framed by the built environment.” - Evan
Pavka
“In the end, locating a permanent, stable and material queer space may not be possible. But that’s the point. It’s in the revisiting of these pasts and presents, through a variety of strategies, that allow a glimpse at the potential of queer futures - even if, as noted throughout, they are only a small fraction of the many ways queer individuals and communities navigate space.” -
Evan Pavka
As we have studied, listened, had many conversations this project about queer what it means to different we have been able to own understanding about allow it to influence the creation of [{trans}cRIPt]o/graph/y.
Queer space cannot be in a single sentence nor structured framework. is both a metaphor and tangible. It is both a space occupied by queer people space designed for queer
Queer space is non-normative anti-colonial. It celebrates while valuing each person is the inhabitants, their and connections to one that create the architecture. a space where co-creation codependency is celebrated.
Queer space is unique resonates uniquely to people. [{trans}cRIPt]o/graph/y utilizes the ambitions of past queer spaces to architectural proposition future. The design is intentionally left speculative and open allow each person to imagine queer space might mean listened, and conversations throughout queer space and different people broaden our about it and the design and [{trans}cRIPt]o/graph/y. be defined nor put into a Queer space and something space people and a queer people. non-normative and celebrates difference person equally. It their relationships one another, architecture. It’s co-creation and celebrated. unique and different [{trans}cRIPt]o/graph/y of present and speculate an proposition of a queer intentionally open ended to imagine what mean to them.
