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- Frichot, Hélène, 1970-, et al.
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Feminist Practices : Writing around the kitchen table
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In: Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice. - Baunach : AADR - Art Architecture Design Research, Spurbuch Verlag. - 9783887784898 ; , s. 171-198
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Bonnevier, Katarina, 1970-
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Behind Straight Curtains : Towards a queer feminist theory of architecture
- 2007
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis presents theatrical queer feminist interpretations of architecture staged within a series of architectural scenes: architect Eileen Gray’s building E.1027 in the south of France (1926-29); author Natalie Barney’s literary salon at 20 rue Jacob, Paris (1909-1968); and author Selma Lagerlöf’s former home and memorial estate Mårbacka, situated in mid-west Sweden and transformed between 1919 and 1923. Interpreted as queer performative acts, or enactments of architecture, these cases bring into play the interconnectedness of material container, the setting, the deeds and the actors. A broad aim of the thesis is to explore the role played by architecture in the social and cultural constructions of bodies, in particular in relation to gender and sexuality. Architecture is investigated as one of the subjectivating norms that constitute gender performativity. The thesis is thus not only about but also operates through enactment. It masquerades as a series of lectures written in the form of scripted drama. The aim of this formal experiment is not only to explicate and critique from a detached perspective but also to represent architecture in the process of being enacted. Architecture is investigated not only as a theoretical metaphor but also as a concrete material practice always entangled with subject positions. With this exploration into the queerness and the theatricality of architecture, Behind Straight Curtains seeks to affect both the analysis and enactment of architecture and contribute to an architectural shift towards a built environment that does not simply repeat repressive structures but attempts to resist discrimination and dismantle hierarchies.
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- Burroughs, Brady, 1970-
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Architectural Flirtations : A Love Storey
- 2016
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)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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- Burroughs, Brady, 1970-, et al.
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Between Delft and Stockholm
- 2017
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In: Footprint. - : Jap Sam Books. - 1875-1504 .- 1875-1490. ; 11:2, s. 119-128
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Over the years, colleagues at the Architecture School of Stockholm have developed a most remarkable and inspiring approach to architecture and writing in terms of performances and the performative while integrating feminist and queer theory. Of particular interest are the Critical Studies in Architecture group, the group Fatale for feminist architecture theory and practice, and the Mycket collaboration. By way of an interview between Footprint editors Dirk van den Heuvel and Robert Gorny, and the Stockholm colleagues Brady Burroughs, Katarina Bonnevier, Katja Grillner, and Hélène Frichot questions of pedagogy, research and methodology are further investigated, how to ‘stay with the trouble’ and where to situate newly emerging knowledge models.
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- Grillner, Katja, 1970-
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At the Western Side a Dead-end Park-slot : On 'Situated Knowledges and the Science Question' in Architecture and Design
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In: Rethinking the Social in Architecture. - Barcelona : ACTAR. - 9781940291994 ; , s. 190-211
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In her 1988 article, ‘Situated Knowledges’, Donna Haraway calls for a ‘doctrine of embodied objectivity’, where ‘objectivity turns out to be about particular and specific embodiment /. . ./ Feminist objectivity’, she continues, ‘is about limited location and situated knowledge, not about transcendence and splitting of subject and object’ . We need to move, she argues, beyond those simple dichotomies and understand that empirical knowledge is objective even though it is always situated and embodied. With this view, it is possible to build up objective knowledge on real conditions and to act on this information. Here our concern is primarily with place and spatial transformation. What does it mean to know a place, and who is expected to act on such knowledge? Using Haraway’s notion of situated knowledges provides an opportunity to frame epistemologically what is at stake in conflictual cases of urban transformation. The chapter studies the case of western Rosenlundsparken in Stockholm and accounts for the planning process 2012-2014 involving a housing development on park land and the construction of a new street running through the park. The case has been studied as a research, mapping and design project that concerns this particular site and situation in the midst of urban transformation and gentrification taking place in central Stockholm. Laying out preliminary facts and developing narratives of power and resistance, framed epistemologically through Donna Haraway’s notion of ’situated knowledges’, Rosi Braidotti’s ’nomadic subject,’ and Graham-Gibson’s feminist ’project of belonging’, the project aims at disclosing competing notions of what is perceived to be at stake. What specific values are described as being ‘under threat’ or ‘about to be developed’? On what grounds, and in whose interests, are these arguments put forward? On a more general level the research project seeks to contribute to an expanded epistemological view on architecture and urban design practice and research in particular relation to questions of siting, place-production and urban transformation. Developing a critique visavi current practices the project wishes to contribute to this field with enhanced conceptual clarity concerning the nature of 'knowledge ground' in relation to architectural projections of possible futures for specific sites and situations.
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