Kreider + O’Leary have signed a contract to deliver the book ‘Ungovernable Spaces’ with Bloomsbury, London.
Ungovernable Spaces: Community Formation and the Poetics of Resistance is a study of situations wherein communities form amidst social and political turbulence. Understanding the formation of these communities in terms of ‘ungovernability’ and a ‘poetics of resistance’, the book charts a movement from oppression, through transformation, into imagining, and out of emergence. In particular, Ungovernable Spaces is a journey from the Mecca apartment building on Chicago’s South Side, demolished to make way for Mies Van der Rohe’s Illinois Institute of Technology campus design; through Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March protest, intermittent fasts, and daily practice of spinning – acts that were intrinsic to his vision of a culturally and economically independent India; into Ciudad Abierta (Open City), a radical pedagogical experiment started by a poet and an architect in Valparaíso, Chile; and out of the political ecologies emergent on either side of the ‘peace walls’ of Belfast, Northern Ireland.