V1.1 Theoretic Action

The significance of working within and outside of the walls of the academy was evident when the workers and students converged in Paris, Mexico City, and in the streets and campuses of the United States in 1968, to give voice to democratic, political, and social movements — consequently changing the trajectory of history. Embracing the concept of “theoretic action,” CriticalProductive is acting to revitalize theoretical discourse that has waned in recent years as preoccupations with computation and scientification of subjectivity have eclipsed the production of critical political and social scholarship that affirms new spatial configurations and their processes of conception. The conceptual frame for this inaugural issue is the legacy of the 1968 civil rights era to recast the perspective from which class, race and space have been conventionally marginalized in the discipline of architecture.