How did UK activists outfox 700 police? Why was Hong Kong traffic stopped by ‘mini Stonehenges’? And could an octagonal treehouse and a crow’s nest really have saved a German forest? Our writer enjoys a 200-year history of resistance architecture
, the French revolutionary Auguste Blanqui sets out meticulous instructions for how to build a good barricade. Such defences, he wrote, must no longer be thrown together in “a confused and disorderly fashion”, but should be robustly composed of two sturdy rampart walls made of paving stones and plaster.
Over the years, protesters from around the world created an aerial tree village worthy of the Ewoks, featuring a network of wooden structures connected by bridges, nets, rope ladders and zip wires. The shelters ranged from ad-hoc cabins to substantial four-storey treehouses, some equipped with solar electricity, ovens and internet, arranged in self-sufficient neighbourhoods with names like Oaktown, Robin Wood and Endor.
More recently, Hong Kong’s multileveled topography of roads, ramps and raised walkways proved to be fertile terrain for spatial interventions in 2014 and 2019, when two waves of protests against mainland China’s creeping control filled the streets.
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