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- Burroughs, Brady, 1970-
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Architectural Flirtations : A Love Storey
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Formulated as a feminist project, written as a pulp fiction, Architectural Flirtations: A Love Storey begins with our claim that the architectural discipline is centered around a culture of critique, which is based in what bell hooks calls “a system of imperialist, white supremacist, heterosexist, capitalist, patriarchy,” and that the values instilled by this culture not only begin with, but are reinforced and reproduced by, the education of young architects.Sounds serious. Right?In a move toward a more vulnerable, ethical and empowering culture of architecture, the project aims to displace the culture of critique, by questioning and undermining relationships of power and privilege through practices that are explicitly critical, queer feminist, and Campy. In other words, it takes seriously, in an uncertain, improper and playful way, what is usually deemed unserious within the architectural discipline, in order to undermine the usual order of things.All of the (love) storeys take place on March 21st, the spring equinox, in and around a 1977 collaborative row house project called Case Unifamiliari in Mozzo, Italy, designed by Aldo Rossi and Attilio Pizzigoni. Beda Ring, PhD researcher, constructs a Campy renovation of one of these row houses, full of theatricality, humor, and significant otherness; while architectural pedagogue, Brady Burroughs, guides a student group from KTH in an Architecture and Gender course; and Henri T. Beall, practicing architect, attends to the details upstairs.
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- Hällgren, Nina, 1977-
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Designing with Urban Sound : Exploring methods for qualitative sound analysis of the built environment
- 2019
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The licentiate thesis Designing with Urban Sound explores the constitution and qualitative characteristics of urban sonic space from a design-oriented and practice-based perspective. The act of lifting forth and illuminating the interaction between architecture, the creation of sound and a sonic experience aims to examine and develop useful tools and methods for the representation, communication and analysis of the exterior sonic environment in complex architectural spaces. The objective is to generate theoretical and practical knowledge within the field of urban sound planning and design by showing examples of different and complementary ways of communicating and analyzing sound than those which are commonly recognized.
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- Karami, Sepideh, 1976-
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Interruption : Writing a Dissident Architecture
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Interruption: Writing a Dissident Architecture makes a contribution to the fields of writing architecture and dissident architecture. Concerned with developing an ethos of criticality from within, it presents a series of performative writing experiments that are situated in politically charged architectural sites, from public spaces, to institutions, to domestic spaces. My aim is to ask how a dissident architecture could be produced through the practice of writing, specifically by offering an account of the performative acts of various characters who are introduced in the thesis, and who critically inhabit existing architectural sites, interrupt the spatial power relations of those sites, and who thereby construct 'performing grounds'.Writing architecture is developed in this thesis not as writing about architecture, but aims instead to write it, to make it. Writing dissident architecture writes with multiple voices, with many authors, not all of whom are welcomed. It offers significant approaches to a political and critical understanding of architecture. Where architecture in this thesis is understood both as a material structure and as a disciplinary framework in which power can become oppressive, writing architecture, on the other hand, is developed as a ‘minor’ practice that can act upon existing sites, interrupting their ‘major’ power relations. Interruption, developed as a tactic, is what activates architecture to become a performing ground for the act of dissidence. Formulated as a journey the three main parts of the thesis deal with three interrupting tactics: Pause, Cut and Fo(o)l+d, which are applied in relation to three different kinds of political site: 1) spaces of appearance or the spectacle; 2) disciplined spaces understood as sites of impossibility; 3) domestic spaces as displaced loci of subversive political actions. The Pause uses stillness and refusal as a mode of interruption. The Cut interrupts the material and structural continuity of established institutions and creates cracks in those systems. The Fo(o)l+d interrupts surveillance and control by folding in and out of private and public spaces. By introducing a quasi-fictional character to each site, who performs through one of the three tactics of interruption, a performing ground is constructed. Writing architecture forwards this journey across specific sites through which the figure of the dissident emerges.
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- Miranda Carranza, Pablo, 1972-
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Program Matters : From Drawing to Code
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Whether on paper, on site or mediating between both, means for reading and writing geometry have been central to architecture: the use of compasses and rulers, strings, pins, stakes or plumb-lines enabled the analysis and reproduction of congruent figures on different surfaces since antiquity, and from the renaissance onwards, the consistent planar representation of three-dimensional shapes by means of projective geometry. Tacitly through practice, or explicitly encoded in classical geometry, the operational syntaxes of drawing instruments, real or imaginary, have determined the geometric literacies regulating the production and instruction of architecture. But making marks on the surfaces of paper, stone or the ground has recently given way to the fundamentally different sequential operations of computers as the material basis of architectural inscription. Practices which have dominated architecture since antiquity make little sense in its current reading and writing systems. This thesis examines technologies of digital inscription in a search for literacies equivalent to those of drawn geometry. It particularly looks at programming as a form of notation in close correspondence with its material basis as a technology, and its effects on architecture. It includes prototypes and experiments, graphics, algorithms and software, together with their descriptions and theoretical analyses. While the artefacts and texts respond to the different forms, styles, interests and objectives specific to the fields and contexts in which they have originated, their fundamental purpose is always to critique and propose ways of writing and reading architecture through programming, the rationale of the research and practice they stem from.
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- Wiklund, Jenny, 1975-
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Journal - rekonstruktion av kropp och minne
- 2017
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Projektet har utvecklats i interdisciplinärt samarbete mellan Jenny Wiklund och KTH, Akademiska Sjukhuset i Uppsala, Uppsala Universitet, Karolinska Institutet, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, Aarhus Arkitektskole, och curator Jan Åman.Projektet har utvecklats skulpturalt vid Kungl. Konsthögskolan. Förstudier har genomförts vid Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset. I finalstudien kombineras studier vid Uppsala Akademiska Sjukhuset, Bild- och Funktionsmedicinskt centrum/Röntgen i tredimensionell visualisering av medicinsk bild med studier i klinisk anatomi vid Uppsala Universitet, för att förenas i skulptural gestaltning och iscensättning.R1 Reaktorhallen iscensätts som ett platsspecifikt monumentalverk. Den fysiska installationen i rummet bildar en temporal kappa om utställningskapitlen i avhandlingsutställningen som handlar om kropp och hjärna. Utställningen berättar om en specifik tidpunkt, utan minne och proprioception. Här finns ingen historia och ingen framtid.Genom utställningen skapas en förståelse för sambanden mellan teoretiskt tänkande och visuell gestaltning. Det är forskning genom konstnärlig och arkitektonisk precision med referenser till konst, arkitektur, medicin och medicinsk teknik. Referenserna är från verkliga objekt i verkliga rum, specifika verk från specifika konstnärer och genom auskultering vid flertalet expertpresentationer, där människor genom närvaro förmedlat sin kunskap.Arkitektur är spatial konstruktion av identitet, här i utställningsform som temporal visuell spatial-estetisk poetik. Formen på framläggningen av avhandlingen är vald efter det huvudsakliga ämnet som utreds, minnet, och dess temporala omskapande av rummet vid varje specifik tidpunkt det framkallas. Det visuella intrycket kommer före alla andra beskrivningar, i logik med den händelse som föregick doktorandprojektets ämne, en minnesförlust, där upplevelsen av rummet kom före språket, kroppen före hjärnan, intränade minnen i form av siffror före en självbiografi.
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- Erixon Aalto, Hanna, 1975-
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Projecting Urban Natures : Investigating integrative approaches to urban development and nature conservation
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Projecting Urban Natures is a compilation thesis in critical studies in architecture. It comprises three journal articles and four design proposals in which I have taken an active part. The point of departure for this thesis is the renewed emphasis on social-ecological interaction and resilience that is currently taking place within ecological systems science, and the opportunities that these paradigmatic insights in turn have opened up within urbanism and design. The thesis argues that although they are promising, these emerging integrative frameworks are seldom brought into mainstream planning and urban design practice. Instead, the structuring of “nature” and “city” into a dualistic balance relationship still permeates not only the general planning discourse, but also makes its way into planning documents, notably influencing distinctions between professions. In response, this thesis sets out to rethink and explore more integrated approaches to human/nature relationships, through the utilization of design-based and transdisciplinary research methods. While this core aim of the thesis remains the same throughout the work, the task is approached from different perspectives: through different constellations of collaborative work as well as through parallel case-based explorations that emphasize the relational, anti-essentialist and situated articulation of values of urban natures and how these forces come into play. The work has been propelled through workshop-based, site-specific, and experimental design processes with professionals and researchers from the fields of e.g. systems ecology, natural resource management, political ecology, urban design, architecture, and landscape design, as well as planners, developers, local interest groups, and NGOs. Specifically, projects performed within this thesis include: Nature as an Infrastructural Potential – An Urban Strategy for Järvafältet; Kymlinge UrbanNatur together with NOD, Wingårdhs, MUST and Storylab; Årsta Urban Natures with James Corner Field Operations and Buro Happold; and Albano Resilient Campus — a collaboration between Stockholm Resilience Centre, KTH and KIT.
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