This talk will look at architectural representation in three different registers: design, institutions, and performance. Each register will demonstrate their dual status as imaging (representing) a phenomena and arranging the relations of that phenomena (who is called to be represented). Architecture in this way is understood as both social symbol and social actor.

Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture and principal in the firm of Deamer, Studio. She is the founding member and the Content Coordinator of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural design and labor. She is the editor ofArchitecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present and The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design and the forthcoming Architecture and Labor. Articles by her have appeared in Log, Avery Review, e-Flux, and Harvard Design Magazine amongst other journals.Her theory work explores the relationship between subjectivity, design, and labor in the current economy. Her design work has appeared in HOME, Home and Garden, Progressive Architecture, and the New York Times amongst other journals. She received the Architectural Record 2018 Women in Architecture Activist Award.