Pressure Points - The Subjects of Race and Feminism
Seminar Particular Questions in Architectural Theory (052-0839-21)
Organizer: Visiting Lectureship Choi
Lecturers: Dr. Rebecca Choi
Time: Mondays, 11:45-13:30
Location: Zoom: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63134165756
Adrian Piper, The Mythic Being, 1973 (Film Still)
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.
Zoom Link
Course Syllabus
Dr. Rebecca Choi
Organizer: Visiting Lectureship Choi
Lecturers: Dr. Rebecca Choi
Time: Mondays, 11:45-13:30
Location: Zoom: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63134165756
Adrian Piper, The Mythic Being, 1973 (Film Still)
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.
Zoom Link
Course Syllabus
Schedule
- Monday, September 26, 2021 - Introduction
- Monday, October 4, 2021 - Part I SKIN 1 - Read Kathleen James-Chakraborty, "Response to Murray Fraser" C. Riley Snorton, "Black on Both Sides"
- Monday, October 11, 2021 - Part I SKIN 2 - Guest Speaker: Gus Wendel, "Queering the Street: Designing for Intersectionality in Los Angeles' Everyday Public Spaces" - Read Tavia Amolo Ochieng' Nyongó, "Afro-Fabulations: the Queer Drama of Black Life" Kimberle Crenshaw, "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex" Jasbir K. Puar, "I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess"
- Monday, October 18, 2021 - Part I SKIN Workshop
- Monday, October 25, 2021 - Seminar Week
- Monday, November 1, 2021 - Part II CANVAS 1 - Read Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, "The University and the Camp" Lynne Horiuchi, "WII Prison Cities"
- Monday, November 8, 2021 - Part II CANVAS 2 - Read Rudolf Mrázek, "Blocks"
- Monday, November 15, 2021 - Part II CANVAS Workshop
- Monday, November 22, 2021 - Part III CONCRETE 1 - Read Lisa Lowe, "The Intimacies of Four Continents" Listen Will Davis, "Foreign Arms and the Economic Body"
- Monday, November 29, 2021 - Part III CONCRETE 2 - Read "Topography of Prostitution in Renaissance Ferrara"
- Monday, December 6, 2021 - Part III CONCRETE Workshop
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