Architecture and Feminisms

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