After successful completion of the course, students are able to develop scientific questions at the intersection of architecture and instersectionality and elaborate them with appropriate methods. This praparation for basic research and artistic research will be demonstrated with a seminar work of 40,000 characters.
Image left: Mierle Ukeles Laderman (artist), "Manifesto for Maintenance Art"; image right: activist collective migrantas
Reproductive labor plays an important role for the city: our current life in the city is unthinkable without the cleaning of our houses, offices and streets, without the care work for elderly and sick inhabitants, or without childcare.
The COVID-19 Pandemic gives center stage to this kind of labor and sheds light on its contradictions. It shows our society’s economic and existenital dependency on un- and underpaid reproductive labor; as well as the exploitative working conditions of this kind of work. Importantly, a large part of this, now called, essential work is mainly done by women and/or migrants!
In this seminar, we will try to understand the complex relations between reproductive labor in the city, gender and migration. We will do so by investigating the different aspect relating to the topic and drawing connections between them. For this purpose, we will discuss and analyse the works of artists, cultural theorists, geographers, activists and urban planners.
The seminar is based on affirmative pedagogics (according to Rosi Braidotti).
The main elements are text, book and lecture discussions, excursions, discursive development of individual interrogation, which also involves methods of drawing. Workshops will allow us to practice the handling of scientific sources, good scientific practice and writing abstracts. Individual meetings are possible if necessary.
Details will be announced at the first meeting.
16. October 10-12 Introduction
23. October 10-12 online
6. November 10-13 Exhibition visit "Nach der Flucht" https://initiative.minderheiten.at/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Nach-der-Flucht_Folder.pdf
13. November 10-12 online
20. November 10-12 online
4. December 10-13 Exkursion
11. December 10-12 online
18. December 10-12 online
8. January 10-13 Presentation of students' works
15. January 10-12 online
22. January 10-12 online
29. January 10-12 online
Presence, active participation in the seminar and elaboration of an individual seminar work of about 40,000 characters.
Each seminar requires reading text in advance. Texts will be provided at least one weak before the text discussion (uploaded in TISS).
Mierle Ukeles Laderman (Artist): Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969! & Touch Sanitation (1979-80)Andreas Petrossiants: Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance and/as (Art) Workhttps://www.pismowidok.org/en/archive/2018/21-invisible-labor/mierle-laderman-ukeles-maintenance-andas-art-workIla Bêka & Louise Lemoine: Koolhaas HouselifeChandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory,Practicing Solidarity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003)Elke Krasny: WORKING TOGETHER: TOWARD IMAGINED COOPERATION IN RESISTANCEBell Hooks: “Homeplace:A Site of Resistance.” In Yearning: Race,Gender, and Cultural Politics. Boston, MA: South End Press, 41 – 49., 1990Parrenas, Rhacel. S. 2008. The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrantsand Globalisation. New York: New York University Press.http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/100993/3/Race_space_and_architecture.pdf)Vergès, Françoise. 2019. “Capitalocene, Waste, Race, and Gender.” e-fluxjournal, no.100,https://www.e-flux.com/journal/100/269165/capitalocene-waste-race-and-gender.The Grand domestic Revolution GOES ON at Casco, Utrechthttps://casco.art/en/archive/the-grand-domestic-revolution-goes-on-0Jenny Richards: “We Build Families - The Aesthetics of Domestic Labour” in CriticalCities 4, London: Myrdle Court Press, 2014.Tithi Bhattacharya: Social Reproduction Theory. Remapping Class, Recentering OppressionDoina Petrescu and Kim Trogal: THE SOCIAL (Re)PRODUCTION OF ARCHITECTURE. POLITICS, VALUES AND ACTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE
Field: 7 "Becoming a Feminist Architect" http://field-journal.org/portfolio-items/field-7-becoming-a-feminist-architect/
We will read texts in English and hope that you are interested in inclusive architectures.