Architecture as actant for protest: solidarity with Amiskwaciwâskahikan’s (Edmonton) unhoused community
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Conditioned by neoliberal imperatives and settler colonial impositions \nof ‘property’, architecture is complicit in upholding spatial and social \ninequities. The neologism ‘houselessness’ foregrounds housing as \na human right, which must be addressed through the provision of \naccessible housing, yet this process is slow. Moreover, unhoused \nindividuals are disproportionately affected by pandemics. Their \naggravated health risks owe to crowded shelters, comorbidities, and \npandemic-related restrictions of supportive services. While COVID-19 \nhas worsened the pre-existing houselessness crisis, some immediate \neffects may be addressed locally through mutual aid: a form of rapid \nresponse and community care that demonstrates both the need for \nbottom-up solutions and interim approaches to houselessness. This \nthesis explores how architecture might challenge existing frameworks \nof power to act in solidarity with houseless neighbours. The series of \ndesign interventions proposed for Edmonton, Alberta, focus on sociospatial relationships — related to water, sanitation, and hygiene — that \nact in solidarity with houseless people.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".