The LOUDREADER is a new digital and print journal published annually by Loudreaders Trade School. In the form of an antidisciplinary and multilingual publication, The LOUDREADER considers the Caribbean’s geopolitical, linguistic, historical pluriversality as it documents, disseminates, and thinks collectively about the future of social and ecological justice, reparations, repatriations, reconstructions, while accounting for incompatibilities, contradictions, ironies, and strategies of subversion and reinvention. A publication that is informed by Achille Mbembe’s work, The LOUDREADER imagines the “becoming Caribbean of the world,” as the brutality of extraction and exploitation, that was the blueprint of the plantation (and its economies), has spilled out onto the rest of the world like organic matter.

Nathalie Frankowski is a French architect, artist, curator, educator, author, poet, and cofounder of WAI Architecture Think Tank, together with Cruz Garcia. A planetary studio which questions the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism, WAI is one of Nathalie Frankowski and Garcia’s several platforms of public engagement that includes the free and alternative education platform and trade-school Loudreaders and the antidisciplinary collective Post-Novis. Frankowski is associate professor at Iowa State University where she is Design for Critical Futures Fellow in Emancipatory Practice, and on faculty at the Advanced Architectural Design program at Columbia University. Her work has been part of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial and exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou Metz, Neues Museum Nuremberg, Museum of Modern Art New York, and the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology Lisbon. She is coauthor of Universal Principles of Architecture, Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto, Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture, and A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education.

Cruz Garcia is a Puerto Rican architect, artist, curator, educator, author, theorist, and cofounder of WAI Architecture Think Tank with Nathalie Frankowski. A planetary studio which questions the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism, WAI is one of Frankowski and Garcia’s several platforms of public engagement that includes the free and alternative education platform and trade-school Loudreaders and the antidisciplinary collective Post-Novis. Garcia is associate professor at Iowa State University where he is Design for Critical Futures Fellow in Activism, and on faculty at the Advanced Architectural Design program at Columbia University. His work has been part of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial and exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou Metz, Neues Museum Nuremberg, Museum of Modern Art New York, and the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology Lisbon. He is coauthor of Universal Principles of Architecture, Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto, Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture, and A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education.

Luis Othoniel Rosa is the author of the novels, Otra vez me alejo (entropía, 2012) and Caja de fractales (entropía, 2017). The latter was recently translated as Down with Gargamel!. He is also the author the academic book Comienzos para una estética anarquista: Borges con Macedonio [Beginnings for an Anarchist Aesthetics: Borges with Macedonio] (2016). Calima (La Impresora, 2023) is a bilingual (English-Spanish) experimental flipbook collaboration between his fiction; artist Guillermo Rodríguez; printing artists Nicole Delgado and Amanda Hernández; and translators Katie Marya and Martina Barinova. He studied at the University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras) and holds a PhD in Latin American literature from Princeton University. He is the editor of El Roommate: Colectivo de Lectores and a founding member of Loudreaders Trade School and of Post-Novis. He is associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Loudreaders is a free and accessible platform of public architectural pedagogy and trade school exploring spatial and land practices and imaginaries at the intersection of society, culture, and ecology. Anchored in the Caribbean as an incubator of radical forms of knowledge, Loudreaders engages through networks of intellectual solidarity the many fields, lands, territories, narratives, journeys, and imaginations that make and remake a dynamic, historic, and evolving geopolitical network of landscapes and peoples. Following the concept of vocational education, the Trade School proposes architectural thinking as forms of knowledge that can be exchanged through “how-to” workshops and Loudreading sessions, as well as the study of critical and affirmative thinking by designers, artists, architects, spatial practitioners, activists, philosophers, creative writers, and scholars.