The Architectural Review - Issue 1486 (November 2021)

The Architectural Review is 125 years from where it started. Rather than looking back, this issue looks forward to a series of possible futures. This is not a manifesto but room to imagine, and imagine differently.

Traversing propositional and speculative futures, the AR November issue marks the present as a turning point and poses the question: where do we go from here? Through essays, short stories, graphic novels, conversations, illustrations, a collage, a poem, a fable, a tapestry, we look to answer to this question and explore future-making in different forms. Each piece imagines the worlds we could build, entangling what we know of the present to a future of possibilities.

• A land of equal distribution, Steve Webb and Kate Dehler
• Stitched spaces, Amélie de Bonnières
  
• A woodland where the Squirrel and the Rats share a meal, Will Hayter
  
• A future collectively salvaged from the rubble, Beyond Gender
  
• Kinfrastructure, Edit
  
• A school willing to take risks, Francesca Hughes and Lesley Lokko as told to Manon Mollard
  
• Architecture without extraction, Zosia Dzierżawska and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
  
• A city of rest, Raquel Meseguer
  
• Grow rooms in a flooded future, Cassandre Greenberg
  
• A city that wages love, Ama Josephine Budge and Eric Gyamfi
  
• The queer white hole, Frances Whorrall-Campbell
  
• A place of safety, Khensani de Klerk
  
• A world without prisons, Rachel Komich
  
• Everywhere – freely, Hokūlani K Aikau and Alan Pelaez Lopez as told to Bani Amor
  
• Kawkab of immigrants (A planet of immigrants), Aude Nasr
  
• Up the slopes of Mount Parnitha, Ojo Taiye
• Editorial contributor Edwina Attlee