ABE 008
Ecologies of Architecture
5
PhD
Advanced Architecture Theory Research Seminar on
Feminist Ethics of
Sustainability
A.
Radman and S. Kousoulas, TU Delft Spring Semester 2018
The
Theory Chair of the Architecture Department is offering ABE 008 seminar to PhD candidates and academic research staff,
whose research topics relate to architectural and urban theory, philosophy, and
contemporary concerns of spatial, socio-political, ethico-aesthetical, cultural
and scientific relevance to the disciplines of design.
The
course is framed within a seminar structure every second/third Monday from 14:30-18:00 during the
Spring term, in which participants will engage in guided readings and group
discussions on the thematic of each individual session. The aim is to generate
an environment in which all participants will gain knowledge on a specific
topic, while developing a set of useful methodologies and research skills.
The
fifth edition of the course Ecologies of Architecture will kick off in February
2018 under the guidance of Andrej Radman and Stavros Kousoulas. Ecologies of
Architecture V a.k.a. Space Girls
will be devoted to the concept of Feminist Ethics of Sustainability defined by
the inseparability of a vital affective state, an ethical obligation and a
practical labour.
Schedule
Session 1: TRANSVERSALITY
February
12, 2018
• Iris
van Tuin
•
Session 2: POSTHUMANISM
February
26, 2018
• Rosi
Braidotti
•
Session 3: CAPITALOCENE
March
12, 2018
• Claire
Colebrook
•
Session 4: COSMOPOLITICS
March
26, 2018
• Isabel
Stengers
Session 5: SYMPOIESIS
April
16, 2018
• Donna
Haraway
Session 6: DIFFRACTION
May
07, 2018
• Karen
Barad
•
Session 7: MODULATION
May
28, 2018
• Anne
Sauvagnargues
•
Session 8: XENOFEMINISM
June
18, 2018
• Laboria
Cuboniks
• Luciana
Parisi
Learning Objectives
In
a desperate attempt to catch up with forms of contemporary image culture,
architects tend to forget where their strength lies. To speak of culture as
forms of life, as Scott Lash argues, is to break with earlier notions of
culture as representation, as reflection. It is to break with judgement for
experience, with epistemology for ontology, and finally to break with a certain
type of cognition for living. While accepting multiple scales of reality the Ecologies of Architecture opposes the
alleged primacy of the ‘physical’ world discovered by physics. By contrast, it
posits that what we have to perceive and cope with is the world considered as
the environment. The emphasis is on the encounter, where experience is seen as
an emergence which returns the body to a process field of exteriority. The
ultimate goal of the Ecologies of
Architecture is to debunk hylomorphism – where form is imposed upon inert
matter from without and where the architect is seen as a god-given, inspired
creator and genius – and to promote the alternative morphogenetic approach that
is at once more humble and ambitious.
At the conclusion of
each seminar / course the participants will have:
• gained
knowledge and understanding on the specific thematic and context of each
seminar (content-based)
• associated
the contents of the seminar to his or her own research topic, expressing this
relationship in concrete, relevant ways (argument-based)
• developed
skills relevant to carrying out advanced research: from following intensive
readings and discussing them in a peer work-group, to preparing an academic
research paper for publication (method-based)
Teaching Method
This course will follow
a seminar structure and advanced research methods. Depending on the individual
seminar leaders, the seminar will follow a series of formats, but generally
will be based on fortnightly research output presentations, followed by a
discussion on sources, references and bibliographies, which will involve the
creation of an information nexus for the seminar discussions. The ultimate goal
of each seminar is to assist the participants to develop reasoned and
convincing argument, as well as to develop scholarly research papers for
publication.
Reading
PRIMARY
• Iris
van Tuin and Rick Dolphijn (2012) ‘The Transversality of New Materialism’
• Rosi
Braidotti (2013) ‘Post-Humanism:
Life beyond the Self’
• Claire
Colebrook (2017) ‘Sex and the (Anthropocene) City’
• Isabel
Stengers (2013) ‘Matters of
Cosmopolitics: On the Provocations of Gaïa’
• Donna
Haraway (2016) ‘Sympoiesis:
Symbiogenesis and the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble’
• Karen
Barad (2007) ‘Difractions:
Diferences, Contingencies, and Entanglements That Matter’
• Anne
Sauvagnargues (2016) ‘The Concept of
Modulation in Deleuze, and the Importance of Simondon to the Deleuzian
Aesthetic’
• Laboria Cuboniks (2015) ‘Xenofeminism:
A Politics for Alienation’
• Luciana
Parisi (2016) ‘Figure-Ground Interview’
SECONDARY
• María
Puig de la Bellacasa (2012)
‘”Nothing comes without its world”: thinking with care’
• Anna
Hickey-Moody (2017) ‘Pussy Riot’
• Elisabeth
Grosz (2013) ‘Sexual difference as
sexual selection: Irigarayan reflections on Darwin’.
• Isabel
Stengers (1997) ‘The Question of
Unknowns’
• Donna
Haraway (1988) ‘Situated Knowledges:
The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective’
• Marion
Young (1990) ‘Throwing Like a Girl:
A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality’
• Jill
Stoner (2012) ‘What is a Minor
Architecture?’
• Laboria Cuboniks (2016) ‘Conversation DIS Magazine’
About the Lecturer
Andrej Radman has been teaching theory courses and design studios at TU
Delft Faculty of Architecture and The Built Environment since 2004. In 2008 he
was appointed Assistant Professor of Architecture and joined the research and
teaching staff of the Delft School of Design (DSD). As a graduate of the Zagreb
School of Architecture in Croatia, Radman received a Master’s Degree with
Honours and a Doctoral Degree from Delft University of Technology. His current
research focuses on New Materialism in general and Ecologies of Architecture in
particular. Radman is a member of the National Committee on Deleuze
Scholarship, and production editor and member of the editorial board of the
peer-reviewed architecture theory journal Footprint.
He is also a licensed architect with a portfolio of built and
competition-winning projects. In 2002 Radman won the Croatian Association of
Architects annual award for housing architecture in Croatia.
Course
Data
Course
code
ABE 008
ABE 008
Course
type
Advanced courses on a range of topics involving architectural/urban theory, philosophy, cultural analysis and science
Advanced courses on a range of topics involving architectural/urban theory, philosophy, cultural analysis and science
Most
appropriate for
PhD candidates at all stages
PhD candidates at all stages
Costs
Free for PhD candidates of A+BE Graduate School
Free for PhD candidates of A+BE Graduate School
Number
of participants
min. 10 /max. 12
min. 10 /max. 12
Name
of lecturer(s)/coach(es)
Dr.ir. Andrej Radman (lecturer), ir. Stavros Kousoulas (assistant)
Course load
Active period: 28 hours contact (seminar) plus 28 hours self-study (preparation)
Graduate School credits
4
Dr.ir. Andrej Radman (lecturer), ir. Stavros Kousoulas (assistant)
Course load
Active period: 28 hours contact (seminar) plus 28 hours self-study (preparation)
Graduate School credits
4
Assessment
Attendance and active participation
Attendance and active participation
Period
Once a year in Spring
Once a year in Spring
Upcoming
course dates and times
Spring 2018, Mondays 14:30-18:00(see detailed schedule in course description)
EnrolmentSpring 2018, Mondays 14:30-18:00(see detailed schedule in course description)
Contact: a.radman@tudelft.nl
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