Hélène Frichot - Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies

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 which 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.

Hlne Frichot is an Associate Professor and Docent in Critical Studies in Architecture, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, where she is the director of Critical Studies in Architecture. Her research examines the transdisciplinary field between architecture and philosophy; while her first discipline is architecture, she holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney (2004). Recent publications include: co-editor with Catharina Gabrielsson and Jonathan Metzger, Deleuze and the City (Edinburgh University Press, 2016); co-editor with Elizabeth Grierson and Harriet Edquist, De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice (Lexington Books, 2015).

Catharina Gabrielsson is Docent in Architecture and an Associate Professor in Urban Theory at the School of Architecture KTH, Stockholm. Her research employs writing as a means for exploration, bridging across aesthetics, politics and economics and combining fieldwork operations with archival studies to generate material for conceptual analysis. With Hlne Frichot and Jonathan Metzger, she is co-editor of Deleuze and the City (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), guest co-editor, with Helena Mattsson, of Architecture and Capitalism: Solids and Flows (Architecture and Culture 5:2, 2017), and, with Helena Mattsson and Kenny Cupers, editor of the forthcoming volume Neoliberalism: An Architectural History (University of Pittsburgh Press). She is the director of the doctoral programme Art, Technology and Design.

Helen Runting is a an urban planner (B.UPD, University of Melbourne) and urban designer (PG.Dip UD, University of Melbourne; MSc.UPD, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm), and a PhD candidate within Critical Studies in Architecture at KTH. Her research is situated within the field of architectural theory and addresses the images, politics, property relations, and aesthetics of the unbuilt environment of Swedens architectural present. Helen is a founding member of the architecture collective Svensk Standard (2008-), and the architectural practice Secretary (2017-).

A project of the Architectural Humanities Research Association

Series Editor: Jonathan Hale (University of Nottingham)
Editorial Board:

Sarah Chaplin
Mark Dorrian (Newcastle University)
Murray Fraser (University of Westminster)
Hilde Heynen (Catholic University of Leuven)
Andrew Leach (University of Queensland)
Thomas Mical (Carleton University)
Jane Rendell (University College London)
Adam Sharr (Newcastle University)
Igea Troiani (Oxford Brookes University)

This original series of edited books contains selected papers from the AHRA Annual International Conferences. Each year the event has its own thematic focus while sharing an interest in new and emerging critical research in the areas of architectural history, theory, culture, design and urbanism.

Volume 1: Critical Architecture
Edited by: Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Murray Fraser and Mark Dorrian

Volume 2: From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture
Edited by: Marco Frascari, Jonathan Hale and Bradley Starkey

Volume 3: The Politics of Making
Edited by: Mark Swenarton, Igea Troiani and Helena Webster

Volume 4: Curating Architecture and the City
Edited by: Sarah Chaplin and Alexandra Stara

Volume 5: Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures
Edited by: Florrian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk and Stephen Walker

Volume 6: Architecture and Field/Work
Edited by: Suzanne Ewing, Jrmie Michael McGowan, Chris Speed and Victoria Clare Bernie

Volume 7: Scale
Edited by: Gerald Adler, Timothy Brittain-Catlin and Gordana Fontana-Giusti

Volume 8: Peripheries
Edited by: Ruth Morrow and Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem

Volume 9: Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence
Edited by: Ines Weizman

Volume 10: Transgression: Towards an Expanded Field of Architecture
Edited by: Louis Rice and David Littlefield

Volume 11: Industries of Architecture
Edited by: Katie Lloyd Thomas, Tilo Amhoff and Nick Beech

Volume 12: This Thing Called Theory
Edited by: Teresa Stoppani, George Themistokleous and Giorgio Ponzo

Volume 13: Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies
Edited by: Hlne Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson and Helen Runting

AHRA provides an inclusive and comprehensive support network for humanities researchers in architecture across the UK and beyond. It promotes, supports, develops and disseminates high-quality research in all areas of architectural humanities.

www.ahra-architecture.org

Edited by Hlne Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson and Helen Runting

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