#spatial strategies

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architecture _ Austin Maynard Architects _ THAT House 

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“En Sudán del Sur no hay pueblos. Los tukuls, las chozas familiares, se levantan lo más distanciados posibles entre ellos, a menudo hay más de una hora a pie entre un vecino y otro”, comenta una funcionaria de la Unión Europea que trabaja en Yuba. “Durante la última guerra civil, vivir en comunidad significaba ser atacado una y otra vez por los grupos armados así que la gente decidió vivir lo más alejada posible para sobrevivir”.

Sudán del Sur se enfrenta a su tercera guerra civil en 50 años, de Iliana Mier-Lavin en El País.

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Shilpa Phadke, Shilpa Ranade, and Sameera Khan, "Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent"

"...we would like to stick our necks out to suggest that not only do we desire to loiter, we in fact believe that this act of pleasure-seeking holds the possibility of not just expanding women's access to public space but also of transforming women's relationship with the city and re-envisioning citizenship in more inclusive terms."

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Helen Stratford, "Micro-strategies of Resistance"

"Micro-strategies of resistance are particular confrontations with and resistances to the local impositions of dominating power. These incremental moves are not assembled from direct confrontations but rather operate as discrete traces within a plurality of resistances. Through a feminist critique, this chapter explores the implications that such an approach may hold for a feminist project, in terms of intersections of power relations and spatial practice."

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Marion von Osten, "Sex & Space: Space / Gender / Economy"

"The project Sex & Space analysed the architectural, urban, and planning realities as representational systems of gender-specific attributions and looked at them in terms of their potential for change through cultural practices. In conjunction with architects, artists, activists, and theorists, we investigated commonly held ideas about the public and private realms and their traditional interpretation as 'male' and 'female' respectively. In Sex & Space, gender difference was not seen as innate and biologically determined by binary oppositions. Instead, our intention was to investigate how space as a social, cultural, and political structure produces specifically gendered identities and how the construction of difference has been inscribed in our notion of space. Polarisations in social space and segregation on ethnic and gender-specific grounds were not only see as an effect of macro politics, but also as part of a specific discourse that causes not only gender difference but also Eurocentric subject positions. One of the project's main questions was: what kind of theoretical and artistic tools might be developed to deconstruct these opposites?" READ MORE HERE 

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Teresa Hoskyns, Doina Petrescu, and other mixed voices, "Taking Place and Altering It"

As promised before, here is the essay from which this is taken:

"Before us, [the feminist design collective] Matrix concentrated on how women architects, planners and clients might take part in the making of built space. By asking ‘How do we use architectural skills to further the liberation of women?’, it found that it was possible to build buildings that respond better to women’s needs but found it difficult to define what a radically different architecture might be. By considering space as more fluid, both physically and socially, Taking Place has discovered that it is possible to produce another quality of physical public space through intervening in the power relations expressed through space. Place can simply be ‘taken.’”

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Profile of muf architecture/art

"Why did you choose the name 'muf'?

Liza Fior: When we were selected for the Warsaw art gallery we needed a name to write on the form. Some male architects had nicknamed us 'the mufia,' because obviously they found it terrifying that these women were gathering. In England muf sound’s a bit, a little … well, provocative."

More on muf here.