Architecture+Gender: INTRODUCTION A Manual of Feminist Design Power-Tools KTH Critical Studies in Architecture Elective Seminar SCHEDULE NO LECTURE

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1 Architecture+Gender: INTRODUCTION A Manual of Feminist Design Power-Tools KTH Critical Studies in Architecture Elective Seminar SCHEDULE KTH School of Architecture Östermalmsgatan 26 A1 and upper atelier SEMINARS-Discussions LECTURE-workshops KTHA Upper Atelier Outer 25 September INTRODUCTION NO LECTURE 2 October Feminist Manifestos: How to think architecture otherwise! A Lisa Deurell, Kvinnors Byggforum, Stockholm 9 October Altering Practices: socio-political and participatory engagements B Ramia Mazé, Interactive Institute, KTH 16 October Body-Building: embodied architectures and affect C Thérèse Kristiansson, Mycket

2 6 November Architectural Techno-Girls D Ulrika Karlsson, SERVO Stockholm; School of Architecture KTH 20 November écriture feminine: architectural writing practices E Katja Grillner, Critical Studies School of Architecture KTH Brady Burroughs, Critical Studies School of Architecture KTH 4 December F 5 December Materialist Ethics : LOCATION TBC DATE: THURSDAY 5 December Peg Rawes, Bartlett, UCL Teresa Stoppani, Leeds Metropolitan University WEEK 50 Thursday 12 December CONCLUSION: presentations of instruction manuals in A4 KTHA

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4 READING and REFERENCE LIST 25 September INTRODUCTION: 2 October FEMINIST MANIFESTOS Katherine Shonfield, Premature Gratification and Other Pleasures in This is What we do: a muf manual, London: Elipsis London, Leslie Kanes Weisman, Women s Environmental Rights: A Manifesto in Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner, Iain Borden, eds, Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction, London: Routledge, 2000, pp See muf architecture/art website: For a list of feminist manifestos see: Brooklyn Museum Feminist Art Base, 9 October ALTERING PRACTICES Doina Petrescu, Altering Practices in Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space, London: Routledge, Lori Brown, Introduction Lori Brown, ed., Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture, London: Ashgate, See atelier d architecture autogérée website: Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till, eds, Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture, London: Routledge, Re Architecture exhibition, Pavillon de l Arsenal, Paris, 12 April August 2012

5 16 October BODY-BUILDING Georges Teyssot, The Mutant Body of Architecture in Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, Flesh: Architectural Probes, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, Elizabeth Diller, Bad Press in Francesca Hughes, ed. The Architect Reconstructing her Practice, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996, pp See the work of body and performance artist Orlan, orlan.htm See the work of Cindy Sherman, See the work of Marina Abramović, Elles exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 27 May February 2011, c6bee53a6e8533a4449ae55394e&param.idSource=FR_Edc64d3ee3d83d6d265be583d2a67d238 Further reading Gilles Deleuze ad Félix Guattari, How to Make Yourself a Body Without Organs in A Thousand Plateaus, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, November ARCHI-TECHNO-GIRLS Zoe Sofia, Container Technologies in Hypatia Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring 2000, pp

6 -See Louise Bourgeois s cells and sketches (also undertake a simple google image search for Louise Bourgeois s cells ): -Ulrika Karlsson and Marcelyn Gow, SERVO -Alyssa Andrasek, BioThing, -Caroline Bos of UN Studio, Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, -Stephanie Lavaux (and François Roche), R&Sie, Further Reading: Elizabeth Grosz, Woman, Chora, Dwelling in Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner, Iain Borden, eds, Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction, London: Routledge, 2000, pp November ÉCRITURE FEMININE Hélène Cixous, Coming the Writing in Hélène Cixous, Coming to Writing and Other Essays, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Peg Rawes, Introduction ; Touching and Sensing in Peg Rawes, Irigaray for Architects, London: Routledge, Julieanna Preston, Blazing Interalia: Tropes of a Femnist Spatial Practice, in Lori A. Brown, ed. Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, Jane Rendell, Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism, London: I.B. Tauris, Brigit McLeer, Stray Sod: Eight dispositions on feminine space and writing in Further Reading Gilles Deleuze, Literature and Life in Gilles Deleuze: Essays Critical and Clinical, Daniel W. Smith trans., London: Verso, 1998, pp December MATERIALIST ETHICS Jane Bennett, A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to a New Materialism in Diana Coole and Samantha Frost, eds. New Materialisms: Ontology,

7 Agency, and Politics, Durham and London: Dule University Press, 2010, pp Verena Andermatt Conley, Eco-Subjects in Verena Andermatt Conley, ed. Rethinking Technologies, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993, pp Mierle Ukeles Sanitation Manifesto (1984), also reproduced in Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz (eds) Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (1996) Helen Stratford, Unpleasant Matters in Katie Lloyd Thomas, Material Matters: Architecture and Material Practice, London: Routledge, Yve Alain Bois and Rosalind E. Krauss, curators, L Informe: Mode de emploi, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 22 May-26 August, See review: Further reading: Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind E. Krauss, Formless: A User s Guide, New York: Zone Books, December CONCLUSION: PRESENTATIONS