ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |71 pages
Archive
chapter 3|10 pages
A feminist in disguise?
chapter 4|12 pages
The architect as shopper
part |71 pages
Control
chapter Project 3|6 pages
A cortege of ghostly bodies
chapter 9|10 pages
Digital technology and the safety of women and girls in urban space
part |79 pages
Milieu
chapter Project 5|7 pages
Slow watch: A sci-fi novel about the ecology of time in the society of fear
chapter 13|11 pages
Academic capitalism in architecture schools
chapter 14|11 pages
Environmentalising humanitarian governance in Za’atri Refugee Camp through ‘interactive spaces’
part |74 pages
Work