Over the years, colleagues at the Architecture School of Stockholm have developed a most remarkable and inspiring approach to architecture and writing in terms of performances and the performative while integrating feminist and queer... more
Over the years, colleagues at the Architecture School of Stockholm have developed a most remarkable and inspiring approach to architecture and writing in terms of performances and the performative while integrating feminist and queer theory. Of particular interest are the Critical Studies in Architecture group, the group Fatale for feminist architecture theory and practice, and the Mycket collaboration. By way of an interview between Footprint editors Dirk van den Heuvel and Robert Gorny, and the Stockholm colleagues Brady Burroughs, Katarina Bonnevier, Katja Grillner, and Hélène Frichot questions of pedagogy, research and methodology are further investigated, how to ‘stay with the trouble’ and where to situate newly emerging knowledge models.
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A walk through the city, following the cultural spine, curated as conversation between a local and a stranger. Discussing recent architectural projects in Melbourne, Australia. An introduction to a special feature with six separate articles
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Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the fold has inspired much architectural experimentation in terms of novel form-making, or fold-making writ large at the scale of buildings and even urban environments. With what can be called the rise of a new... more
Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the fold has inspired much architectural experimentation in terms of novel form-making, or fold-making writ large at the scale of buildings and even urban environments. With what can be called the rise of a new biological paradigm in architecture, the concept of the fold, while less explicitly evident, continues to promise novel approaches to form-making, and is also suggestive of a way in which architecture can conjoin with a life within the folds. Contemporary avant-garde architects now claim that one day soon buildings will respond to life criteria, by becoming something akin to building-organisms. A definition of life is broadly appropriated from the life sciences, and the models that it uses to map life in process range from the scale of the cells that cluster as organisms to the organization of ecological systems. The resulting focus on generative digital models, which borrow from genetics, evolutionary theory, and so forth, continues to draw on the...
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This VR movie is set in the rural landscape of the Dja Dja Wurrung aboriginal tribe in southern Australia. The project tells stories of the land from different perspectives, allowing the audience to move through the site by engaging in a... more
This VR movie is set in the rural landscape of the Dja Dja Wurrung aboriginal tribe in southern Australia. The project tells stories of the land from different perspectives, allowing the audience to move through the site by engaging in a VR environment, with narrators telling different stories. The project provides an entry point to and experience of the indigenous land as an immersive environment, combined with a cultural perspective, told from different angles. In the VR movie, the audience traverses three different settings: the pre-colonial forest, the colonial farm, and the post-colonial farmland envisioned for a utopian future.
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This issue of Writingplace Journal, Reading(s) and Writing(s), focuses on the complex process of writing itself, and in particular on the question of reading and responding to texts. By presenting not only resulting texts, but discreet... more
This issue of Writingplace Journal, Reading(s) and Writing(s), focuses on the complex process of writing itself, and in particular on the question of reading and responding to texts. By presenting not only resulting texts, but discreet readings of works in process integrated with the discussions that unfold, the issue reveals complex modes of writing that move between the scholarly and the fictional. It draws attention to the questions of authorial voice, the voice of the reader, and the voice of the possible protagonists of the text, even if this as an object, space or indeed, place. If the authors could be said to engage in various acts of ‘writing place’, as per this journal’s general thematic focus, what kinds of places do they bring into existence? Furthermore, which modes of writing are deemed most appropriate in order to create both evocative and critical accounts of places? Driven by a concern to reinvigorate space-related research through the means of writing, the texts in ...
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Set amidst the experimental ecology of practices that supports feminist thinking and doing in architecture, this small book outlines an instruction guide that presents six provocative steps toward ...
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We do not bear a straightforwardly passive relationship with the ubiquitous regime of the logo-sign. As dwellers of the eternity of the consumer present, the luxury of our boredom allows us to pick and choose. The overwhelming celerity... more
We do not bear a straightforwardly passive relationship with the ubiquitous regime of the logo-sign. As dwellers of the eternity of the consumer present, the luxury of our boredom allows us to pick and choose. The overwhelming celerity with which the everyday perpetually transforms its packaging, the excessively rapid turnover of signs has condensed our historical perspective. Tomorrow I will buy that new pair of shoes. As congenital sufferers of a logorrhea of the logo, our chatter is articulated by product placement. We become active in distinguishing ourselves with these loaded and at once empty signifiers. Whether linguistically or graphically organized the condensation of ideas, facilitated by the economy of the logo is allowed through the operation of the sign. It is beneath the dazzling lights of signification that we can find the logo, a tool bandied about by ‘ideas men.’ Signification is that logic upon which the logo depends. Though the mechanism that silently determines o...
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... Environment (ABE)) (Critical Studies in Architecture). Hinkel, Rochus (RMIT University). Title: Design that Moves. Department: KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE). Publication type: Article in journal (Other... more
... Environment (ABE)) (Critical Studies in Architecture). Hinkel, Rochus (RMIT University). Title: Design that Moves. Department: KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE). Publication type: Article in journal (Other academic ...
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... No fulltext in DiVA. Create reference ». Author: Frichot, Hélène (RMIT University, Melbourne Australia). Hinkel, Rochus (RMIT University). Title: Take a Walk: Architecture and Interiors Tour. Publication type: Chapter in book (Other ...
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This paper will contend that Blanchot s conceptual work on the space of literature lingers in an uncom-fortable proximity to that space we conventionally name architecture. What I will examine below is what Blanchot himself has identified... more
This paper will contend that Blanchot s conceptual work on the space of literature lingers in an uncom-fortable proximity to that space we conventionally name architecture. What I will examine below is what Blanchot himself has identified as a spatial movement that is in relation with the becoming of writing (IC 260), such that we forge a passage to and fro between at least two different registers of space.
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In the following text I propose to offer the outline of five preliminary lessons in a ficto-critical approach to creative research practices in architecture, or more precisely, between architecture ...
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An introduction written by invitation for Julieanna Preston, Performing Matter: Interior Surface and Feminist Actions, Baunach: AADR, 2014.
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The German philosopher, Peter Sloterdijk uses what he calls the thought-figure of foam to describe the relations that cohere between one individual and the next, each co-isolated in the context of the modern city. Our habits, in... more
The German philosopher, Peter Sloterdijk uses what he calls the thought-figure of foam to describe the relations that cohere between one individual and the next, each co-isolated in the context of the modern city. Our habits, in co-production with the framing of our urban habitus, determine that we are arranged as networks of isolated, bubble-like, monadic cells. By effervescent means we nevertheless find ways of communicating across the cell walls that we share, and which divide us. Despite, and also because of the ‘ego-technological’ mania facilitated through new technologies – think iPod or iPhone – it is possible to imagine relations between actors as a ‘living foam’ shared out by a singular substance or stuff, animated by the circulation of affects and percepts, but there are also limitations to this thought-figure. In this essay I will articulate a foaming, bubbling mass of relations that are external to their terms and suffused with affect. In order to extend Sloterdijk’s thought-figure of foam I will explore Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze’s ethics of immanence or ethico-aesthetics, by focussing on this key concept of affect. Although it would appear that our daily habits determine that we live out increasingly capsular existences, new collective modes of expression and challenging forms of sociability are still possible. Affect helps us understand the inextricability of our self-formations and environment-worlds, and that these operate in co-creation. Furthermore, the manner in which these ever transforming spheres, bubbles composed of indiscernible mixtures of inhabitant and habitat, emerge, collide, cohere, and evaporate, as they continue to bump up against other, suggest implications at the scale of larger environment-worlds.
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Noopolitics is a neologism that designates how minds (nous) come to think collaboratively at the scale of populations, a phenomenon facilitated by increasingly sophisticated information societies and their capacity for instantaneous... more
Noopolitics is a neologism that designates how minds (nous) come to think collaboratively at the scale of populations, a phenomenon facilitated by increasingly sophisticated information societies and their capacity for instantaneous electronic communications. Noopolitics complements the already well-established term biopolitics, which designates how the lives and deaths, and general health and well-being of individuals are managed at the scale of populations through practices of governance. What happens when a noopolitics rigidifies, what kinds of effects does it produce? A dogmatic Image of Thought understood as an ossified status quo takes hold, over-determining how people think together and about themselves, and about their worlds, including their local environment-worlds. In relation to an expanded understanding of the spatialities of feeling that architecture contributes to, this essay will focus in particular on the noopolitics at work in the production of architectural imager...
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“The Erasure of the Object that is Architecture” in Rochus Hinkel, ed., Notions of Space, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne and Craft Victoria (2008).
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The compelling promise of emergence, and its attendant aesthetics, has by now found its recognised place in the field of advanced digital architecture. Respected in both the disciplines of philosophy and architecture, Manuel DeLanda... more
The compelling promise of emergence, and its attendant aesthetics, has by now found its recognised place in the field of advanced digital architecture. Respected in both the disciplines of philosophy and architecture, Manuel DeLanda deploys the concept of emergence as a means to demystify the dynamic properties of a world. Concurrently, digital architects fascinated in living systems celebrate this animate dynamism by investing it in their sophisticated, computationally driven design processes. DeLanda is also well known for returning the difficult concepts of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's philosophical lexicon to the disciplines of science and mathematics. Many of these same concepts have been implicitly and explicitly influential in the new biotechnological paradigm in architecture and its productive use of the logic of emergence. This essay will argue that while the logic of emergence expresses great explanatory power and ventures a novel aesthetics, it risks forgetting...
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Sense in Translation: Essays on the Bilingual Body presents a series of thematically related essays on the subject of language, translation and the body. It weaves together ideas derived from phenomenology, science and linguistics with... more
Sense in Translation: Essays on the Bilingual Body presents a series of thematically related essays on the subject of language, translation and the body. It weaves together ideas derived from phenomenology, science and linguistics with the author’s own experience as a bilingual writer and architect. Rabourdin’s engagement with the writings of Michel Butor, Caroline Bergvall and Louis Wolfson anchors the inquiry in concrete examples of literary practice, allowing for the notion of ‘essay as an experiment’ to suggest novel readings of these works while illuminating a complex set of relationships between embodiment and language.
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The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has argued that the ‘camp’ concived as the paradoxical space of permanent exception designed to exclude the non-citizen has now entered the centre of the con ...
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... to the work of such philosophers and theorists as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. This paper will map a recent history that marks the decline of theory and the rise of cool digital techniques and technologies and ask what is at... more
... to the work of such philosophers and theorists as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. This paper will map a recent history that marks the decline of theory and the rise of cool digital techniques and technologies and ask what is at stake with respect to how architecture can continue ...
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... ABE)) (Critical Studies in Architecture). Hinkel, Rochus (RMIT University). Title: Hotel Room Heimat: A Feeling for Home. Department: KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE). Publication type: Article in journal ...
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Pulls together the know-how of dozens of movers and shakers from all areas of design. Full of hand-drawn maps and walking itineraries, it is a direct connection to the pulse of this inspired city
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In her book Coming to Writing, Hélène Cixous suggests that the woman writer must always struggle to establish her right to write. Within the field of architecture the act of writing is often assumed to be a passive after-effect of the... more
In her book Coming to Writing, Hélène Cixous suggests that the woman writer must always struggle to establish her right to write. Within the field of architecture the act of writing is often assumed to be a passive after-effect of the built form and not an active force that might substantially participate in the process of design and its material outcome in a world. Using Cixous as a guide, I will argue that a creative and critical practice of writing can materially contribute to the thinking and doing of architecture, especially with regard to the woman architect.