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

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 14.00-16.00 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

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 17.00-19.00 Peg Rawes, Bartlett, UCL Teresa Stoppani, Leeds Metropolitan University WEEK 50 Thursday 12 December CONCLUSION: presentations of instruction manuals 13.00-16.30 in A4 KTHA

READING and REFERENCE LIST http://archandphil.wordpress.com/category/01_readings/ 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, 2001. 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. 1-5. See muf architecture/art website: http://www.muf.co.uk For a list of feminist manifestos see: http://www.ktpress.co.uk/feministart-manifestos.asp Brooklyn Museum Feminist Art Base, https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/index.php 9 October ALTERING PRACTICES Doina Petrescu, Altering Practices in Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space, London: Routledge, 2007. Lori Brown, Introduction Lori Brown, ed., Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture, London: Ashgate, 2011. See atelier d architecture autogérée website: http://www.urbantactics.org Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till, eds, Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture, London: Routledge, 2011. Re Architecture exhibition, Pavillon de l Arsenal, Paris, 12 April 2012-20 August 2012

http://www.pavillonarsenal.com/en/expositions/thema_modele.php?id_exposition=246 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, 1994. Elizabeth Diller, Bad Press in Francesca Hughes, ed. The Architect Reconstructing her Practice, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996, pp. 74-95. See the work of body and performance artist Orlan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/orlan; http://oldsite.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ecook/courses/eng114em/whois orlan.htm See the work of Cindy Sherman, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cindy_sherman; http://www.cindysherman.com See the work of Marina Abramović, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/marina_abramović Elles exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 27 May 2009 11 February 2011, http://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/ressource.action?param.id=fr_r- 28334c6bee53a6e8533a4449ae55394e&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, 1987. 20 November ARCHI-TECHNO-GIRLS Zoe Sofia, Container Technologies in Hypatia Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 181-200.

-See Louise Bourgeois s cells and sketches (also undertake a simple google image search for Louise Bourgeois s cells ): http://arttattler.com/archivebourgeois.html -Ulrika Karlsson and Marcelyn Gow, SERVO http://www.s-e-r-v-o.com -Alyssa Andrasek, BioThing, http://www.biothing.org -Caroline Bos of UN Studio, Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, http://www.unstudio.com -Stephanie Lavaux (and François Roche), R&Sie, http://www.newterritories.com 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. 1-5. 27 November ÉCRITURE FEMININE Hélène Cixous, Coming the Writing in Hélène Cixous, Coming to Writing and Other Essays, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. Peg Rawes, Introduction ; Touching and Sensing in Peg Rawes, Irigaray for Architects, London: Routledge, 2007. 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, 2011. Jane Rendell, Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism, London: I.B. Tauris, 2010. 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. 1-6. 4 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,

Agency, and Politics, Durham and London: Dule University Press, 2010, pp. 47-69. Verena Andermatt Conley, Eco-Subjects in Verena Andermatt Conley, ed. Rethinking Technologies, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993, pp. 77-91. Mierle Ukeles Sanitation Manifesto (1984), also reproduced in Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz (eds) Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (1996) http://www.ktpress.co.uk/feminist-art-manifestos.asp Helen Stratford, Unpleasant Matters in Katie Lloyd Thomas, Material Matters: Architecture and Material Practice, London: Routledge, 2007. Yve Alain Bois and Rosalind E. Krauss, curators, L Informe: Mode de emploi, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 22 May-26 August, 1996. See review: http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/linforme_mode_demploi/ Further reading: Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind E. Krauss, Formless: A User s Guide, New York: Zone Books, 1997. 11 December CONCLUSION: PRESENTATIONS