The Registry of Itinerant Architectures is an interactive online archive that records encounters with wild, mobile, fleeting and unlikely structures in varied geographic, social, cultural and political settings. It exists on the edge of interdisciplinary art and architecture practice, resisting and disrupting the conventions of architectural experience and record-keeping. The Registry incorporates a dynamic mix of moving image, text and artefact, brought together in an open-access online environment that is available for instant and ongoing global dissemination.
The Registry of Itinerant Architectures is developed by the mobile artist — the Registrar —who walks or moves with mobile communities and repeatedly attempts to apprehend forms of itinerant architecture through observation, imagination, narrative and memory. In doing so, the Registry of Itinerant Architectures poses a twinned question: is this architecture, and who is the architect?
Forms of itinerant architectures may include mobile natural and built architectures, fleeting and invisible structures, condensations and sedimentations, weather events. This is a playful artistic practice that is mobile itself precisely as it investigates other mobilities; the Registry moves with and creates itinerant space with its subjects. Evidence of itinerant architectures is published at www.itinerant.academy to formulate a steady and cumulative body of work. A global audience considers each work as a proposition and then accepts it or rejects it, actively co-creating the Registry over time.