Abstract Each solstice and equinox, for Site-Reading Writing Quarterly, a website I curate, I invite contributors to exchange recently completed written works and provide a situated »review« of each other’s work. These acts draw on feminist theories and critical spatial practices to open up different ways of »reading writing« differently, exploring the practice of »reviewing« from situated perspectives. The ambition is to critique and experiment with the genre of the »critical review essay«. Paying close attention to the subject matter at hand generates modes of response that create entangled and dialogic textualities - that I suggest we think of, following Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, as »feminist figurations«. In this article I provide an overview of the approaches adopted by the contributors involved in the first 7 issues, interweaving presentations of the 14 books »reviewed« with theoretical reflections on the situated processes that reader-writer-reviewers have engaged with so far.
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Abstract This research documents the encounters of the built fabric with migrant imaginaries. It observes the articulation of social narratives, cultural practices, and everyday rituals within diasporic communities ordered around textiles. Migrant spaces often include »soft« architectures in both the literal construction of their spaces and through the »soft« spatial systems tied to certain micro-transactions and community organizations. The work explores ways of engaging with participatory research methods through the dynamic and performative nature of people, objects, rituals, symbols, and knowledge. The performative practices layered onto this work activate inclusive and ethical forms of enquiring and representing information. The work further develops a repertoire of rituals and events ordered around textiles.
{"title":"PERFORMANCE. Migrant Imaginaries through Soft Spatialities","authors":"Amina Kaskar","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0312","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This research documents the encounters of the built fabric with migrant imaginaries. It observes the articulation of social narratives, cultural practices, and everyday rituals within diasporic communities ordered around textiles. Migrant spaces often include »soft« architectures in both the literal construction of their spaces and through the »soft« spatial systems tied to certain micro-transactions and community organizations. The work explores ways of engaging with participatory research methods through the dynamic and performative nature of people, objects, rituals, symbols, and knowledge. The performative practices layered onto this work activate inclusive and ethical forms of enquiring and representing information. The work further develops a repertoire of rituals and events ordered around textiles.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129643395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Critically engaging with one’s positionality in contemporary architectural research in a post-Apartheid South African context requires an approach that blends concerns about identity, location, and voice in responsibly creative means, while not reinforcing the existing power dynamics inherent in such work. This essay employs Jane Rendell’s Site-Writing modality to develop a means of navigating these inter-demographic and inter-locational dilemmas - the What-What - that emerge when working from a »northerly« located institution and speaking from a »Southern« position through multiple audiences. A reflective-animation method has been developed that provides a proto-methodology for both documenting and speculating with the tacit nature of spatial design practice in post-Apartheid South African cities.
{"title":"REFLECTIVE ANIMATION. Navigating the What-What","authors":"Jhono Bennett","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-03015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-03015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Critically engaging with one’s positionality in contemporary architectural research in a post-Apartheid South African context requires an approach that blends concerns about identity, location, and voice in responsibly creative means, while not reinforcing the existing power dynamics inherent in such work. This essay employs Jane Rendell’s Site-Writing modality to develop a means of navigating these inter-demographic and inter-locational dilemmas - the What-What - that emerge when working from a »northerly« located institution and speaking from a »Southern« position through multiple audiences. A reflective-animation method has been developed that provides a proto-methodology for both documenting and speculating with the tacit nature of spatial design practice in post-Apartheid South African cities.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126496525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This paper offers a reflection on an educational experiment. In the spring of 2021, a group of nine architecture students at the Delft University of Technology participated in a research elective that invited them to narrate architectural and urban design history through a ficto-critical short story in graphic-novel format. This paper is based on a conversation between Janina Gosseye, the instructor of the elective, and Meitar Tewel, who made Neualtland as part of this course. In their conversation, Janina and Meitar consider whether the shift away from the more conventional modes of historiography, represented by the ficto-critical graphic novel short story, is merely a shift in genre and tools - from writing to drawing - or if it represents an epistemological shift that can help architecture students unlock and develop new knowledge about the history of architecture and urban design. Could it be a new »species of thesis«?
{"title":"GRAPHIC NOVEL. Making Neualtland – Ficto-criticism in Architectural Historiography","authors":"J. Gosseye, Meitar Tewel","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0309","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper offers a reflection on an educational experiment. In the spring of 2021, a group of nine architecture students at the Delft University of Technology participated in a research elective that invited them to narrate architectural and urban design history through a ficto-critical short story in graphic-novel format. This paper is based on a conversation between Janina Gosseye, the instructor of the elective, and Meitar Tewel, who made Neualtland as part of this course. In their conversation, Janina and Meitar consider whether the shift away from the more conventional modes of historiography, represented by the ficto-critical graphic novel short story, is merely a shift in genre and tools - from writing to drawing - or if it represents an epistemological shift that can help architecture students unlock and develop new knowledge about the history of architecture and urban design. Could it be a new »species of thesis«?","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130119743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The following article is a reflection on an action research project with stakeholders of a special economic zone in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The article describes the process of engagement from the perspective of the workers and the managers of three international factories, with the aim to discover moments and entry points, for the positive social and spatial transformation of a global industrial space.
{"title":"COLLECTIVE WORKSHOP Transformational Encounters in the Trakia Economic Zone","authors":"Ina Valkanova","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0306","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The following article is a reflection on an action research project with stakeholders of a special economic zone in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The article describes the process of engagement from the perspective of the workers and the managers of three international factories, with the aim to discover moments and entry points, for the positive social and spatial transformation of a global industrial space.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131218321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract A score is a research tool that approaches knowledge as a series of relations. A consciously authored, creative work, a score precipitates and establishes the initial terms of an encounter between stories or actors; performed (translated) into a context it can never fully anticipate, a score simultaneously declines certainty or control over the knowledge that results from its performance, while binding that knowledge (and by extension, all learning) to the peculiar circumstances of its construction. This paper is both an exploration of scoremaking’s possibilities and an enaction of a collision of its own: of sonic materialities and epistemologies on the Enisej river.
{"title":"SCORE. Practices of Listening and Collision","authors":"N. Drofiak","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0317","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A score is a research tool that approaches knowledge as a series of relations. A consciously authored, creative work, a score precipitates and establishes the initial terms of an encounter between stories or actors; performed (translated) into a context it can never fully anticipate, a score simultaneously declines certainty or control over the knowledge that results from its performance, while binding that knowledge (and by extension, all learning) to the peculiar circumstances of its construction. This paper is both an exploration of scoremaking’s possibilities and an enaction of a collision of its own: of sonic materialities and epistemologies on the Enisej river.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125236648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This experimental piece of writing explores how a metalogue can open a space of conversation expressed across student and teacher, human and inhuman relations. Drawing on the metalogues between father and daughter in Gregory Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind, the performance of this metalogue seeks to disrupt habitual power relations and mix conceptual with material expression. Of central concern are the ways in which both materials and concepts are extracted for use in built environment industries and industries of higher education, begging the question of how to work ethically within material and educational industries. The metalogue performs unruly interruptions and contradictions of voices, following a flow of materials both conceptual and concrete to grapple with pressing environmental imbroglios. The structure of the metalogue is necessarily open-ended, avoiding specific recommendations or answers to problems, instead fostering a glimmering understanding of how entangled we are amid environmental relations.
{"title":"METALOGUE. Conversing across Student and Teacher, Human and Inhuman Relations","authors":"T. Keogh, H. Frichot","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0310","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This experimental piece of writing explores how a metalogue can open a space of conversation expressed across student and teacher, human and inhuman relations. Drawing on the metalogues between father and daughter in Gregory Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind, the performance of this metalogue seeks to disrupt habitual power relations and mix conceptual with material expression. Of central concern are the ways in which both materials and concepts are extracted for use in built environment industries and industries of higher education, begging the question of how to work ethically within material and educational industries. The metalogue performs unruly interruptions and contradictions of voices, following a flow of materials both conceptual and concrete to grapple with pressing environmental imbroglios. The structure of the metalogue is necessarily open-ended, avoiding specific recommendations or answers to problems, instead fostering a glimmering understanding of how entangled we are amid environmental relations.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134041781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The enclosing of spaces of nature in urban contexts is today again a common practice in Paris. Whereas modern planning produced open green spaces, multiple changes in the late 20th century resulted in the revival of the urban park, which refers again to the traditional element of structural enclosing. After defining the enclosing of spaces of nature in Paris as a research object and situating the genre of atlas in research practice, this article elaborates upon the atlas as an epistemic genre and a visual form of knowledge production. Urban landscape projects realized in previous decades are presented while critically discussing the applicability of the atlas to urban and landscape design research.
{"title":"ATLAS. Comprehending Enclosures of Urban Nature","authors":"Anna Keitemeier","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0303","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The enclosing of spaces of nature in urban contexts is today again a common practice in Paris. Whereas modern planning produced open green spaces, multiple changes in the late 20th century resulted in the revival of the urban park, which refers again to the traditional element of structural enclosing. After defining the enclosing of spaces of nature in Paris as a research object and situating the genre of atlas in research practice, this article elaborates upon the atlas as an epistemic genre and a visual form of knowledge production. Urban landscape projects realized in previous decades are presented while critically discussing the applicability of the atlas to urban and landscape design research.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114917899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Editorial Summary Alexandra Abel explores the general potential of disciplinary fusion and, specifically, the incorporation of psychology into the field of architecture, aiming for an architectural psychology. In her contribution »What is Architectural Psychology?«, she questions the possible intertwining of the two disciplines, highlighting their reciprocal interconnectivity. She draws specific attention to the substantial ways in which the consideration of psychological findings affect the perception and appropriation of architectural spaces and their sensual and attentive impact on human well-being. In regard to the integration of perceptual and sensory principles into the architectural design, the consideration of psychology becomes inevitable when aiming for a human centered design. [Katharina Voigt]
Alexandra Abel探索学科融合的一般潜力，特别是将心理学纳入建筑领域，旨在建立建筑心理学。在她的文章»什么是建筑心理学?，她质疑这两个学科之间可能存在的相互交织，强调了它们的相互关联性。她特别关注心理研究结果影响建筑空间感知和占用的实质性方式，以及它们对人类福祉的感官和细心影响。在将感性和感官原则融入建筑设计中，以人为本的设计必然要考虑心理学。(凯瑟琳娜沃伊特)
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