ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces urban curating as a form of spatial practice and also introduces the neighbourhood of the Downtown Eastside, and the importance both for the locality, and in general, of working with a 'transversal' and 'solidarity' approach to urban curating. Analogous to social reproduction work, urban curating also has a non-hidden part that becomes public in the form of exhibitions in art and architecture contexts. The 'social reproduction of architecture' within the prevailing conditions needs to open up resistant spaces for feminist reproductions of space that are specifically anti-racist and emphasize the right to the city. For practitioners of architecture, urbanism, research, theory, or curating, this means acknowledging the immense scale of hidden work necessary to make the life of urban neighbourhoods. The Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, one of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, boasts a long history of community activism and residents' resistance.
