Altering practices : feminist politics and poetics of space / edited by Doina Petrescu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petrescu, Doina.

Class of 1953 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in architecture.

Academic writing.

Space (Architecture).

Cities and towns--Philosophy.

Cities and towns.

Critical theory.

Physical Description:

xx, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

This collection of essays offers a fresh overview of contemporary feminist practices, with particular emphasis on the politics and poetics of space. With the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalisation and the change in social demands, feminist praxis of space is diversifying and expanding. This book assesses these altering practices alongside the emergence of new social and political theories and within today's urban and geopolitical contexts.

The practices discussed in this book constitute a multitude of gestures, figures and actions: 'urban curating', 'making space', 'taking place', 'urban cooking', 'building while being in it', 'drifting walls', 'mapping invisible privileges', 'confessional constructions', 'stray sods'. Together they form a piece of feminine textuality, a volume which is not divided into thematic sections but takes its shape from a 'mise en relation entre des voix-femmes' in which each contribution negotiates its proximity to the others. The contributions from architects, artists, cultural theorists and activists from different generations and a wide range of practices and fields of research are international in scope and combine to challenge traditional disciplinary and cultural boundaries.

Contents:

Foreword: from Alterities and beyond xiii

1 Altering practices / Doina Petrescu 1

2 Taking place and altering it / Teresa Hoskyns, Doina Petrescu, Other mixed voices 15

3 Evaluating Matrix: notes from inside the collective / Julia Dwyer, Anne Thorne 39

4 An invisible privilege muf 57

5 How to take place (but only for so long) / Jane Rendell 69

6 Building while being in it: notes on drawing 'otherhow' / Katie Lloyd Thomas 89

7 Stray Sods: eight dispositions on 'the feminine', space and writing / Brigid McLeer 113

8 Micro-strategies of resistance / Helen Stratford 125

9 Altering events in architecture / Anne Querrien 141

10 Urban curating: a critical practice towards greater 'connectedness' / Meike Schalk 153

11 Open Kitchen or 'cookery architecture' / Kim Trogal 167

12 Building clouds, drifting walls / Ruth Morrow 189

13 Urban traces: civic performance art and memory in public space / Ilana Salama Ortar 201

14 Sex & Space: space / gender / economy / Marion von Osten 213

15 Refiguring dis/embodiments / Niran Abbas 241

16 Stabat Mater: on standing in for matter / Francesca Hughes 259

17 The unbearable being of lightness / Jennifer Bloomer 281

18 Learning and building in the feminine / Sadie Plant 297.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

0415357853

0415357861

9780415357852

9780415357869

9780203003930

0203003934

OCLC:

71778968