Event
SWEAT in Tucson: A Workshop for Perspecta 58
In advance of Perspecta 58: Sweat (due out 2026) editors Alan Alaniz, Gabrielle Printz and Samarth Vachhrajani will host a hybrid public workshop with issue contributors and interlocutors in Tucson, Arizona on Friday March 14th at 5:30pm MDT, 8:30pm EST. A key component of our editorial endeavor is to foreground knowledge produced in situ with the geographies at the center of our issue’s central themes. Seeking out a situated engagement with life, labor, and migration specific to the Sonoran borderlands, the editors and contributors will collectively reflect on the political implications of sweat at the convergence of borderlands, indigenous territory, and arid landscapes. The workshop is hosted by the Global Justice Center in Tucson and will feature insights from Taylor Miller, Danika Cooper, Natalia Mendoza, and Miguel Fernández de Castro. For those in Tucson, we gladly welcome your attendance in person and for those elsewhere, we hope you are able to attend via zoom.
Perspecta 58: Sweat provokes an urgent assessment of architecture’s role in the mutually constitutive crises of climate, migration, and labor. This platform provides the opportunity to excavate the untold histories of transnational migration and labor embedded in the production of our built and unbuilt environment by interpreting it as an accumulation of bodily exertion. Through an assessment of sweat, Perspecta 58 aims to provide a record of the body often lost to other scales of inquiry and think through the corporeal expenditures necessary to construct, maintain, and traverse our world.