Member LibraryofAnnetta(ae/aer)

Real Name

House of Annetta

About My Library

The House of Annetta has around 500 books that we want to share with the community. Some are for lending, some for reference and some we want to give away. Please browse through our books and if you want to borrow one please email libraryofannetta@proton.me with the book(s) you want to borrow.

Also feel free to come visit us at 25 Princelet Street, London to have a peruse in person. For opening hours and other events at the house please visit houseofannetta.org/About

About Me

Spitalfields; where the east end meets the city of London has for centuries been a site of friction for the tectonic forces of capital and human life, a historic site of organising and people trying new things. In amongst this history sits 25 Princelet St, a large and beautiful Huguenot house built in 1705 that for the past 40 years has held an extraordinary story.

In 1980 Annetta Pedretti came to live in the house, inhabiting it as a space for her experimental way of learning and organising community resistance. Annetta’s special area of interest and exploration was cybernetics, the study of self-regulating systems. Annetta was working with cybernetics in her beekeeping, publishing, art-making, political activism and day-to-day conversation. At her death in 2018, Annetta’s house was gifted by her family to the Edith Maryon Foundation in Switzerland who appointed the architectural collective Assemble to develop a future for the semi-renovated building. Assemble initiated the project House of Annetta to develop a centre for research, arts and solidarity work towards transformative systems change.

Today the house is continuing the threads Annetta wove, exploring approaches and ideas for the ways we reproduce the world through our daily lives.

House of Annetta aims to benefit individuals, groups, and organisations committed to spatial justice for all, especially those negatively impacted by systemic inequalities - for example by class and/or race. This includes communities fighting for access to housing, or public space, those negatively affected by the financialisation of land and property; as well as organisers, artists, activists, researchers and educators creating life-affirming work. Our aim is to provide affordable access to space, resources, and platforms - for connection, building knowledges and taking action. We work on imaginaries and practical organisation.

Location

House of Annetta, London, UK

Homepage

https://houseofannetta.org/About

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Friends

Kiely-Ramayya