This year’s MBRRACE report finds that Black mothers are still almost four times more likely to die in pregnancy & childbirth. It’s nothing short of a scandal that this inequality persists year after year whilst the Tories refuse to set binding targets to eliminate it.

What does laundry have to do with architecture? Come and find out 👇

Does anyone know if this house in Pwllheli still exists?! House by Terry Farrell Partnership (1982). Never seen it before.

Had so much fun speaking with Jay Owens @SNFSchlee and Dr Naomi Paxton about cleaning, pollution in the home, laundry and tiny flying particles. Tune in to BBC Free Thinking on January 16th to hear it

How many council housing estates are there in London? Looking for a rough number

great episode of BBC Free Thinking BBC Radio 3, recasting familiar things in counterintuitive forms. In the capable hands of Jay Owens Marianna Janowicz @SNFSchlee & chaired by Dr Naomi Paxton Domesticated since we were 21&19, I’ll defend oikos against polis🙂 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

I have two spare tickets for the sold out screening at the Barbican Centre this Thursday, on the relationship between London’s landscape, creativity and capital. DM if you’d like them barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/…

Brilliant piece from @SNFSchlee on how central heating changed the way we live and what we expect from the home. (And very pleased to get a mention of my work on laundry drying and humid interiors)

Call for abstracts: paid labour and social reproduction in the home. Deadline: 15 April ahra-architecture.org/publications/a…

Publication day! Happy to have contributed a little chapter on architecture, housekeeping and reproductive labour. Thank you Owen Hopkins Farrell Centre

My piece for the After Comfort series on e-flux is out. It’s about laundry, moisture and how people and buildings are porous and leaky. With thanks to @DanielABarber and Nick Axel e-flux.com/architecture/a…

Why are they called health visitors if they don’t visit you

Lots of incredible product placement in this piece by kate wagner I do love a niche household product

Happy summer solstice from the ancient concrete circle of 'Stone Penge' in Crystal Palace Park.   Believed to have been constructed circa 1964 AD, the monument is renowned for its mysterious brutalist board markings and uncomfortable polypropylene seating.   📷Invisible Palace

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