Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies

ISBN-13: 9781138304871 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 310 str.

Helene Frichot (KTH (Royal Institute of;Catharina Gabrielsson (School of Archite; K Helen Runting (School of Architecture

Opis

Set against the background of a `general crisis' that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of specific intersections between architecture and feminisms, understood in the plural. The collected essays and projects that make up the book follow transversal trajectories that criss-cross between ecologies, economies and technologies, exploring specific cases and positions in relation to the themes of the archive, control, work and milieu. This collective intellectual labour can be located amidst a worldwide depletion of material resources, a hollowing out of political power and the degradation of constructed and natural environments. Feminist positions suggest ways of ethically coping with a world that is becoming increasingly unstable and contested. The many voices gathered here are united by the task of putting critical concepts and feminist design tools to use in order to offer experimental approaches to the creation of a more habitable world. Drawing inspiration from the active archives of feminist precursors, existing and re-imagined, and by way of a re-engagement in the histories, theories and projected futures of critical feminist projects, the book presents a collection of twenty-three essays and eight projects, with the aim of taking stock of our current condition and re-engaging in our precarious environment-worlds.

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Introduction Hélène Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson, Helen Runting  Part 1: Archive  1. Feminist Theory and Praxis, 1991 - 2003: Questions from the archive Karin Burns  Project 1. Searching for Cyborgs Shelby Doyle and Leslie Forehand  2. The role played by women linked to the CIAM: the case of Frieda Fluck, 1897-1974 Rixt Hoekstra  3. A Feminist in Disguise? Sibyl Moholy-Nagy’s Histories of Architecture and its Environment Hilde Heynen  Project 2. Overpainting that Jostles Sophie Read and Tijana Stevanović  4. The Architect as Shopper: Women, electricity, building products and the interwar ‘proprietary turn’ in the UK Katie Lloyd Thomas  5. Between Landscape and Confinement: Situating the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft Emma Cheatle  Part 2: Control  6. Remodelling the Führer: Hitler’s Domestic Spaces as Propaganda Despina Stratigakos  7. Architectural Preservation as Taxidermy: Patriarchy and Boredom Christian Parreno  Project 3. A Cortege of Ghostly Bodies: Abstraction, prothesis, and the logic of the mannequin Daniel Koch  8. Subaltern Bodies in the Digital Urban Imaginary Alison Brunn  9. Digital Technology and the Safety of Women and Girls in Urban Space: Personal safety Apps or crowd-sourced activism tools? Nicole Kalms  10. Machinic Architectural Ecologies: An uncertain ground  Janet McGaw  Project 4. Gender and Anonymous Peer Review Sandra Kaji-O’Grady  11. In Captivity: The Real Estate of Co-Living Hélène Frichot and Helen Runting  Part 3: Milieu  12. Material and Rational Feminisms: A contribution to humane architectures Peg Rawes and Douglas Spencer  Project 5. Slow Watch: A Sci-Fi novel about the ecology of time in the society of fear Malin Zimm 13. Academic Capitalism in Architecture Schools: A feminist critique of employability, 24/7 work and entrepreneurship Igea Troiani  14. Environmentalising Humanitarian Governance in Za’atri Refugee Camp through Interactive Spaces: A posthuman approach Aya Musmar  15. Feminisms in Conflict: ‘Feminist urban planning’ in Husby, Sweden Maria Ärlemo  16. Abandoned Architectures: Some dirty narratives Karin Reisinger  Project 6. Kisses and Romance: On Infrastructural Love Olga Tengvall and Hannes Frykolm  17. Diverse Economies, Ecologies and Practices of Urban Commoning Doina Petrescu and Katherine Gibson  Part 4: Work  18. Reproductive Commons From and Beyond the Kitchen Julia Wieger  Project 7. The Kitchen of Praxagora: Turning the private and public inside out Elin Strand Ruin  19. The Critical Potential of Housework Catharina Gabrielsson  20. The Garage: Maintenance and gender Janek Oźmin  Project 8. Drawing Out Home-Making: Contested markets in Cape Town Huda Tayob  21. Invisibility Work? How starting from dis/ability challenges normative social, spatial and material practices Jos Boys  22. On the Critiques: Abortion Clinics Lori Brown  23. The Entrepreneurial Self Claudia Dutson