A Guide to Being with Buildings in Decay

Read Samanta Kajėnaitė’s essay [here]

Personal archival image of Nina Milevskaja. Courtesy of Milevskaja

Photo by Jonas Staškauskas

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Samanta Kajėnaitė, “A Guide to Being with Buildings in Decay”, Metode (2026), vol.5 ‘What if Waste’