Rebecca Choi: Katalogdaten im Frühjahrssemester 2023

NameFrau Rebecca Choi
Adresse
Gastprof. Architekturtheorie gta
ETH Zürich, HIL D 64.1
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
8093 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
E-Mailchoi@arch.ethz.ch
DepartementArchitektur
BeziehungDozentin

NummerTitelECTSUmfangDozierende
052-0818-23LTheory of Architecture Seminar: Pressure Points - The Subjects of Race and Feminism2 KP2SR. Choi, T. Avermaete
KurzbeschreibungThis course examines architecture through a set of lenses developed in Black studies, feminist technoscience theory, Black queer/trans studies. In asking questions around exclusion and belonging in the contemporary study of spaces, the course explores how constructs around race & gender have created interlocking forms of oppression that permeate the culture practice and discipline of architecture.
LernzielThis course examines the built environment through a set of lenses developed in Black studies, Critical Race Theory, feminist technoscience theory, Black queer and trans studies. In asking questions around exclusion and belonging in the contemporary study of spaces, the course explores how constructs around race and gender have created interlocking forms of oppression that permeate the culture practice and discipline of architecture. The course asks what role imagination can serve in the practice and discipline of architecture—an imagination which pressures the field to contend with the past and nurture a radical practice of imagination where it might unhinge itself from systems of oppression in the immediate present.

The course will alert students to the problematics of white Western modernity’s use of race and gender to create certain categories of populations: the vulnerable, dispossessed, and disenfranchised as an entry point to discuss alternative narratives around difference. Readings will include contemporary concepts of abolition, Black aesthetic theories of fabulation and futurism, Black feminist poetics, and critical race theory among others. We will read Sylvia Wynter, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Denise Ferreira da Silva, to name a few.
InhaltThe course will alert students to the problematics of white Western modernity’s use of race and gender to create certain categories of populations: the vulnerable, dispossessed, and disenfranchised as an entry point to discuss alternative narratives around difference. The course will question such frames as way to apply pressure points on the accepted histories of architecture and the built environment.

Readings will include contemporary concepts of abolition, Black aesthetic theories of fabulation and futurism, Black feminist poetics, and critical race theory among others. We will read Sabine Broek, Tavia Nyong’o, SA Smythe, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, and Sylvia Wynter, to name a few. The full syllabus with weekly reading sets can be viewed on our course webpage.
KompetenzenKompetenzen
Fachspezifische KompetenzenKonzepte und Theoriengeprüft
Verfahren und Technologiengeprüft
Methodenspezifische KompetenzenAnalytische Kompetenzengeprüft
Entscheidungsfindunggeprüft
Medien und digitale Technologiengefördert
Problemlösunggeprüft
Projektmanagementgefördert
Soziale KompetenzenKommunikationgeprüft
Kooperation und Teamarbeitgefördert
Kundenorientierunggefördert
Menschenführung und Verantwortunggefördert
Selbstdarstellung und soziale Einflussnahmegeprüft
Sensibilität für Vielfalt geprüft
Verhandlunggefördert
Persönliche KompetenzenAnpassung und Flexibilitätgefördert
Kreatives Denkengeprüft
Kritisches Denkengeprüft
Integrität und Arbeitsethikgeprüft
Selbstbewusstsein und Selbstreflexion geprüft
Selbststeuerung und Selbstmanagement geprüft