HOUSE OF ANNETTA, A SITE OF RESISTANCE

25 Princelet Street in Spitalfields was the home of the architect, cybernetician, conservationist, builder, beekeeper, and campaigner Annetta Pedretti until her death in 2018. An obsessive polymath, her work has been all but forgotten. Her large home has been given to charity and is to be used as a social centre for all, and a base for mounting a resistance against proprietarian society, and campaigning for land reform and housing justice for all. In this talk Louis Schulz, from the architecture collective Assemble, who are leading the project, will discuss what we know Annetta's life and work, as well as plans to harness the site - forever removed from the flow of land speculation and inheritance - as a place that can catalyse a resistance against the relentless top-down redevelopment of the city.