Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space

ISBN-13: 9780415357852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 328 str.

D. Petrescu; Doina Petrescu

Opis

This volume addresses the question of how interdisciplinary feminist thought and contemporary practice can inform architectural debate on the use and meaning of space.

Spis treści

Foreword: From Alterities and Beyond  1. Altering Practices  2. Taking Place and Altering it  3. Evaluating Matrix: Notes from Inside the Collective  4. An Invisible Privilege  5. How to Take Place (But Only for So Long)  6. Building While Being In It: Notes on Drawing 'Otherhow'  7. Stray Sods: Eight Dispositions on 'The Feminine', Space and Writing  8. Micro-Strategies of Resistance  9. Altering Events in Architecture  10. Urban Curating: A Critical Practice Towards Greater 'Connectedness'  11. Open Kitchen or 'Cookery Architecture'  12. Stages in the Construction of the Cite des Femmes in Dakar  13. Building Clouds, Drifting Walls  14. Urban Traces: Civic Performance Art and Memory in Public Space  15. Sex and Space: Space / Gender / Economy  16. Refiguring Dis/Embodiments  17. Stabat Mater: On Standing in for Matter  18. The Unbearable Being of Lightness  19. Learning and Building in the Feminine

O autorze

Doina Petrescu is lecturer in architecture at the University of Sheffield. She has written, lectured and practised individually and collectively on issues of gender, technology, (geo)politics and poetics of space. She is co-editor of Architecture and Participation (London: Routledge, 2005).