{"id":180,"date":"2025-06-09T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/?p=180"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:10:20","slug":"toward-a-field-of-production-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/2025\/06\/09\/toward-a-field-of-production-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Toward a field of Production Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Architecture is rarely thought as it is built. The drawing, the rendering, the model \u2014 these stand in for the building, and what gets called design is what happens before the labour begins. The premise of Production Studies is that this displacement is not innocent. To bracket production from the architectural object is to lose its conditions of possibility, and with them, the political character of the form.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This network is opening with a wager. The wager is that the worksite, the materials, the supply chains, and the social relations of construction are not background conditions for design \u2014 they <em>are<\/em> what design actually consists of, distributed across many hands and many sites. From here, our editorial work begins.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the next year looks like<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the next twelve months we will publish twelve issues of the newsletter, each anchored by an essay and a working-group dispatch. Subgroups (Her Know How, Production Pedagogies, and others as they take shape) will run their own session calendars and contribute reports. The events page consolidates everything in one calendar. The first issue lands in two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to write, propose a session, host a reading group, or argue with an article \u2014 the <a href=\"\/staging\/contact\/\">contact page<\/a> is the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opening editorial: why production, why now, and what the network commits to over the next year of publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"subgroup":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"subgroup","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/productionstudies.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subgroup?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}