MAMA

YOUR MAMA

MAMA is a developing spatial practice to whom maintenance matters. This print is your selection of our reflexions presented in the form of a manual. Check our website for more.

Starting in 2015 with the these maintenance as craft, a critical approach of the notion of work to question our relationship with the environment, we believe that maintenance is architecture : an integral part of the designed and built environment that transforms it radically. To act accordingly, we ask ourselves what is maintained when we maintain and practice maintenance as a research method. We develop through storytelling, including research, drawings, writings, workshops, conferences, exhibitions and direct action. We do data analysis and image representation. From the maintenance industry to daily households, all over the wide spectrum of design, architecture and urbanism, MAMA calls for dinner.

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“The Chimney-sweeper’s friend, and Climbing-boy’s album’ by James Montgomery printed in 1824 is a collection of different writings portraying the miserable conditions …

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“The Chimney-sweeper’s friend, and Climbing-boy’s album’ by James Montgomery printed in 1824 is a collection of different writings portraying the miserable conditions of child labourers, urging the authorities to take action.

Unfortunately the industrial revolution did not bring any positive changes for these kids. Chimneys got narrower and sinuous with the use of coal which lead to more casualties.

children chimney drama book

Lord Ashley 1801-1885. He was a recognised advocate for the improvement of labour and housing conditions. In particular reducing working hours for children and for …

Lord Ashley 1801-1885. He was a recognised advocate for the improvement of labour and housing conditions. In particular reducing working hours for children and for the prohibition of using children as chimney sweepers in the UK.

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children law labour condition chimney sweepers UK XIX activist persona lord