The act of squatting can be seen as a way of approaching a world foreign to oneself by temporarily taking ownership of this given world and/or participating in it without taking fully becoming a part of it.

↑Photo↑ Metallica band members James Hetfield and Kirk Hammet being filmed in their studio together with group therapist Phil Towle. Photo by Annamaria DiSanto (2004)

Architects will and should aim their curiosity at fields that are seemingly disconnected with the building industry. This could be natural sciences, urban cultures, the entertainment industry, or even science fiction. This architectural curiosity relates to the architect-as-anthropologist, but more importantly so it entails an element of identifying with all different kinds of builders, actors, owners, or processes. In the following essay the builder we will be identifying with, is a Swedish teenager in a downtuned hyperslow vehicle referred to as an “EPA tractor”.

↑Photo↑ 17 year old Wilma Lundin being handed gift-bucket for winning “Northeastern Skånes Nicest EPA-Tractor”. Photo by Sofia Åström (2023)

Architects will and should aim their curiosity at fields that are seemingly disconnected with the building industry. This could be natural sciences, urban cultures, the entertainment industry, or even science fiction. This architectural curiosity relates to the architect-as-anthropologist, but more importantly so it entails an element of identifying with all different kinds of builders, actors, owners, or processes. In the following essay the builder we will be identifying with, is a Swedish teenager in a downtuned hyperslow vehicle referred to as an “EPA tractor”.

↑Photo↑ 17 year old Wilma Lundin being handed gift-bucket for winning “Northeastern Skånes Nicest EPA-Tractor”. Photo by Sofia Åström (2023)

Architects will and should aim their curiosity at fields that are seemingly disconnected with the building industry. This could be natural sciences, urban cultures, the entertainment industry, or even science fiction. This architectural curiosity relates to the architect-as-anthropologist, but more importantly so it entails an element of identifying with all different kinds of builders, actors, owners, or processes. In the following essay the builder we will be identifying with, is a Swedish teenager in a downtuned hyperslow vehicle referred to as an “EPA tractor”.

↑Photo↑ 17 year old Wilma Lundin being handed gift-bucket for winning “Northeastern Skånes Nicest EPA-Tractor”. Photo by Sofia Åström (2023)