Rebecca Choi: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2023 |
| Name | Ms Rebecca Choi |
| Address | Gastprof. Architekturtheorie gta ETH Zürich, HIL D 64.1 Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| choi@arch.ethz.ch | |
| Department | Architecture |
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| 052-0818-23L | Theory of Architecture Seminar: Pressure Points - The Subjects of Race and Feminism | 2 credits | 2S | R. Choi, T. Avermaete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | This 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | This 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | 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. 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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