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- Frichot, Hélène, et al.
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Infrastructural Love : A Support System for Critical Feminist Design Tools
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- At the nexus of the architectural and environmental humanities issues of decolonization have extended into a consideration of human and more-than-human ecological relations. Given the entanglement of today’s social and environmental crises, we need to decolonise our imaginaries as much as our western European enlightenment predilections when it comes to our architectural habits and habitats. In this co-written paper we ask: How do we explore relational architectural ecologies (Rawes 2016) and engage in creative ecologies (Frichot 2018) from the midst of our pedagogical practices? This team of teacher-researchers presents work undertaken in the design studio context within Critical Studies in Architecture, School of Architecture KTH Stockholm, a division well known for its emphasis on feminist and intersectional theories and practices. Our project, Infrastructural Love, looks to infrastructural systems that support human and more-than-human actors with the aim of rethinking the majoritarian tendencies too often expressed in architecture. We propose to share our developing feminist design (power) tool kit, which aims to challenge the norms of architectural representation so as to re-orientate our points of views on the worlds we daily share with diverse peoples and vibrant things.
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- Frichot, Helene, et al.
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Our Infrastructural Loves Architectural Pedagogies of Care and Support
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Architectural Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1046-4883 .- 1531-314X. ; 76:2, s. 52-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Embracing a critical pedagogy of care and support in the teaching and learning environment of the architectural design studio, this essay discusses ways in which architecture can be reimagined via infrastructural love. By exploring infrastructural support systems we seek other ways of situating architectural design amidst contemporary environmental, social, and political crises. We have undertaken this work in collaboration with architectural design students by deploying a feminist ethics of care that combines interdisciplinary theories and practices. Our essay unfolds as an infrastructural rhythm of instructional prompts. In conclusion we present a concept that emerged from our studio: poetics pragmatics.
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- Karami, Sepideh, 1976-
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Aesthetics of Agonism and Informal Action of the Others : The Role of Architecture in Producing Agonistic Politics
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In contraposition to formal world, the so-called informal “others”, are not always passively excluded but operates actively through different forms of resistance and action. Informality is a tool for the excluded to create situations of participation through breaking the predefined and controlled frameworks in the society. These active forms of informality have the potential of inverting the position of “the others” as exploited, to the ones leading the changes towards emancipation. This, in many cases is materialized in urban spaces through occupation and transformation of architectural spaces and structures.Here the relation between two sides of otherness or their operations as formal and informal defines the politics of otherness. This politics produce different spatial characteristics. On the other hand architecture and planning can promote specific kinds of politics by defining this very relation. In a consensual model of politics advocated by post-political perspective, the dialogue among different positions is pacified by consensus and agreement. Ultimately it will leave no room for differences and otherness. But in an agonistic model of politics this platform will generate active dialogue through conflict and dissensus and create more chances for “the others” to participate. Architecture can prepare and develop this platform to generate ongoing dialogue between two sides of otherness.Some formal architectural and urban structures have the potential of creating specific situations to be used differently and informally. This informal use and consequently transformed architectural space is the scene for “the others” to be heard, to perform and to produce the dissensual dialogue. This paper studies the aesthetics of architecture of agonism. It will study how otherness can operate as a force in agonistic politics and how architecture can operate in this context to optimize the opportunity for the others to express themselves; how architecture can create a conflictual relation between “the same” and “the other” through the relation between formal and informal and how it will promote building up the emancipation project?
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- Karami, Sepideh, 1976-
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Al-Croquis : Lieutenant Fontaine
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This exposition emerged in response to the question of how to engage critically with institutions via various methods of interruption. Al-Croquis is a parody of the mainstream architecture journal El-Croquis. It is a fictitious journal born from a proposal rejected by the editors of El-Croquis, but that nevertheless found a way to continue an institutional existence. This issue, dedicated to the prison, introduces Lieutenant Fontaine, the main character of Robert Bresson’s movie A Man Escaped, as a protagonist of interrupting architecture. Fontaine escapes from the Nazi’s Montluc prison, and his escape plan is investigated as a work of architecture, interrupting the institution of the prison. Appointing the role of architecture to a prisoner who escapes, and studying his applied tools and methods through the lens of architecture work, is a way to expand architecture beyond its disciplinary limits and to develop minor modes of architectural practice. In line with such an expansion, the issue also approaches the prison through various perspectives by means of critical and artistic contributions from guest contributors. The self-published journal of architecture, Al-Croquis, and a poster was exhibited at ArkDes exhibition space, as part of the Making Effect exhibition 14-17 September 2017.
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- Karami, Sepideh, 1976-
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Black Lungs
- 2019
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Ingår i: VIS Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. - 2003-024X. ; 1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The ultimate act of taking risk in life lays in the proximity to death. When a risk being taken is prone to fail, failure can potentially become the failure to live. These risky moments involve decisions, dreams, imaginings that motivate one to take action. The motivation is strong enough to push one to a fragile border between death and life. In this exposition, I situate the discussion of risk in coal mines, investigating the work of coal miners as a craft through which they develop subversive modes of labour. The story in this exposition starts millions of years ago and gives a fictional geological history of Earth, where the formation of coal plays an important role in the planet’s evolution; coal becomes the political summary of Earth, where various moments of risk lead us down into a coal mine. Through a vertical structure poised on the edge of death and life, and by means of writing and drawing, risk is experimented with using concepts such as imprecision, the materiality of darkness, and the fragility of working with such materiality.
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