Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space

ISBN-13: 9780415357869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 328 str.

Doina Petrescu

Opis

This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands. Within the current urban and geopolitical contexts, it addresses the emergence of new social and political theories that raise questions of identity and difference in modern society. The book reiterates feminist concerns with space from the critical stance of the new millennium. With contributions from the leading theorists and thinkers from around the world representing the fields of architecture, art, philosophy and gender studies, this book has a truly international and interdisciplinary reach.

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).