They Have Watches, But We Have Time: A Takeover by WAI Architecture Think Tank

For one evening, WAI Architecture Think Tank transforms Van Alen Institute into a living postcolonial collage, inspired by the abolitionist Afro-Asian Bookstore of political prisoner Martin Sostre and the mutual-aid restaurants and loudreadings of anarcho-syndicalist and feminist Luisa Capetillo. Through books, artifacts, food, loudreadings, lectures, and performances, the evening questions whose histories the archive preserves alongside: Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia with Ema Yuizarix, WAI Architecture Think Tank Luis Othoniel Rosa, writer; Associate Professor of Spanish and Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Rose Florian, architect and urban designer; Post-Novis Daniel Jonas Roche, journalist; News Editor, The Architect's Newspaper Lane Rick, architect, artist, and educator; co-founder, Office of Things Nora Akawi, architect and curator; Assistant Professor, The Cooper Union Iskander Guetta & Quang Vinh Nguyen, designers and curators of the series The evening is…