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2025, Women in Architecture. Critical Studies and Gender Analyses of the Czech Architectural Setting after 1945

When I studied art history at one of the Czech faculties of arts after 2000, the number of women artists and architects whose names I encountered during my studies could be counted on the fingers of both hands. As the following chapter by Klára Brůhová shows, this situation has not changed much to this day. This is also striking given how many female students are studying fields such as architecture 1 or art history today. It is also strange how complacently we accepted this fact as students at the time. It was only by studying a second subject -French language and literature -and thanks to the work of Simone de Beauvoir and the ideas of the feminist movement that I gradually began to see the imbalance and incompleteness of the information presented. The philosopher Rosi Braidotti, in her book Nomadic Theory 2 talks about the difficulty of finding one's own identity in a situation where we lack "memory". However, according to her, the central memory related to "The Majority" is white, heterosexual, property-owning and male. "The Majority Subject holds the keys to the central memory of the system and has reduced to the rank of insignificant practices, the alternative or subjugated memories of the many minorities." 3 She thus follows other feminist theorists, such as Linda Nochlin, who as early as 1971, in her essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? 4 drew attention to the social construction of the art canon and showed that the memory of women artists exists, but is just invisible. The silence about gender 5 and the invisibility of women in historical interpretations are so deeply rooted in our lives that some of us -students of art history -only began to question them towards the end of our studies (others never did). And no wonder, the intense and unconscious internalization of this female absence has been going on all our lives so far. How deeply this silence is still rooted in Czech culture and scholarship is not only shown by the little attention paid to gender analysis in the field of architectural history, but also illustrated and analysed by some recent sociological, literary, and historical studies 6 which I will discuss further in the text. It is their feminist methodological tools that allow the absence of gender to be seen and described. In our project Architecture (f.). Women, Emancipation, Architecture in the Second Half of the 20th Century and therefore also in this book, we focus on a gender analysis of selected topics in the history of architecture during the period of state socialism and the transition to market capitalism in the Czech environment. In the following text, I would like to introduce some interdisciplinary feminist tools and perspectives in this context and support the view that they should be a self-evident and integral part of researching the history of architecture of this period in the Czech Republic. The historian and sociologist Libora Oates-Indruchová reflects on the phenomenon of the lack of gender analysis in her study Blind Spots in Post-1989 Czech Historiography of State Socialism: Gender as a Category of Analysis 7 and in the associated public lecture Gender Blind: On One Blind Spot of Czech Historiography of Contemporary History 8 which took place at the Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Science. Oates-Indruchová focuses on the interpretations of the period of state socialism in the field of history in the Czech environment, aptly naming the problems that I believe also apply to the study of the history of post-war architecture, and describing research tools based on feminist methodology that can be beneficial for our field. At the beginning of her text, she mentions the paradox that while the topic of women's emancipation and equality was present in pre-1989 public discourse, Czech post-1989 historiography, with a few exceptions, paid almost no attention to it until recently. 9 She also asks how it is possible that gender analysis, so widely used in Czech sociological research on this period, is almost absent from the field of history. What losses does this imply for the field, and what does the study of history and the construction of memory gain from using a gender perspective? She cites the imposition of Marxist-Leninist theory by the past regime as a possible reason for the resistance to writing contemporary history from a distinct theoretical standpoint, and the fact that the topic of gender equality is often perceived as a "communist" topic, 10 as if the topic of women's emancipation arose from the agenda of state socialism. Yet we can speak rather of an "expropriation" of the women's movement agenda during this era, as Hana Havelková and Libora Oates-Indruchová write about. 11 Without gender analysis, however, we lose parts of our knowledge of the past, and it may even lead to misleading interpretations of historical events.

2025, Body Matters, AHRA2024 international conference, Norwich University of the Arts (21-23/11)

1.4.24, 22:10. A 28-year-old woman arrives at the police station in Agioi Anargyroi suburb of north-western Athens, to report that her life was in danger and to ask for a police accompaniment to ensure her safe return home. The request... more

2025, Nexus Network Journal

The social behavior of people is reflected through spatial configurations. Traditionally, reproductive work and caregiving tasks have been spatially assigned by gender and often go unnoticed. With the rise of middle-income housing in Mexico, an important question arises: how do these housing layouts integrate reproductive and care tasks, particularly in kitchens and laundry areas? To investigate this, the paper focuses on five Mexican cities known for significant middle-income housing production-Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, Querétaro, and Toluca-and selected 25 case studies consisting of five model homes from each city. By applying space syntax and the Justified plan graph, the paper mathematically and graphically analyses these homes to map spatial inequalities. The findings reveal that laundry areas have a low integration, similar to bathrooms. On the other hand, public and private spaces meet in kitchen, leading to better gender integration.

2025, ICAG2023 VI International Conference on Architecture and Gender

Recent research and publications on the history of architecture and gender have identified a number of pioneering figures. However, using the analytical and semantic field of the (woman) pioneer offers a narrative, a "feminine" history that appears new and different, yet incomplete because still disconnected from a historical genealogy still in the making. At the very edge of the canon, in tension between the methodologies of the monograph and the collective portrait, this article suggests weaving several threads towards the specific and diversified tools, resources and networks that Belgian architect Simone Guillissen-Hoa (1916-1996) had to develop in order to enroll in the architectural training program at La Cambre, complete the curriculum, obtain a diploma and emerge professionally. In a narrative polyphony, the cartography of identified networks, influences, actors and relays gives an oral and ampliative dimension to the official and conventional data preserved in the archives. Thus, in order to destabilize hegemonic classifications and understand the nature and complexity of Simone Guillissen-Hoa's subjective constellations, two constitutive parameters of Simone Guillissen-Hoa's identity will be analyzed to escape hegemonic classifications that tend to hierarchize or even erase certain protagonists: on the one hand, her bilinear family filiation and, on the other, her inclusion in the modern movement and her reception as a 'second-generation' architect.

2025

The shifting dichotomy between productive and reproductive labour has been at the centre of feminist and transfeminist debate since the middle of Sixties (Mitchell, 1966; Benston, 1969, Morton, 1971; Dalla Costa, 1972; Federici, 1975). The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have generated a new wave of reflection when the home, once again, became a place of spatial overlap of different activity: work, sport, school, care. The Fordist revolution split the productive and reproductive apparatus into well-defined spatial domains, on the one hand, the factory or the office, and on the other, the home, considered the realm of the ‘full-time’ housewife. Early examples of the externalisation of domestic tasks, in order to free women appeared at the beginning of the 20th century by several utopians, researchers and designers who rethought the home through the collectivisation of certain essential services for the family - such as cooking, washing and ironing laundry, managing household chores, looking after children. Starting from this theoretical background, the paper puts domesticity under siege by changing the perspective and examining some projects that showed a different way of living. It will look at the Frauen-Werk-Stadt I [Women Work City], a revolutionary housing project built in Vienna between 1995-1997. Then the paper will focus on contemporary examples of the externalization of domestic tasks from a female perspective. This paper argues that such a vision requires rethinking the boundaries and functions of domestic and communal spaces, challenging traditional gender roles. By examining historical and contemporary examples, it seeks to illuminate how spatial design can address the evolving needs of society, particularly in fostering inclusivity and shared responsibility.

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Este livro, com autoria de Patrícia Santos Pedrosa e prefácio de Zaida Muxí Martínez, resulta do projeto de investigação “Mulheres Arquitetas em Portugal: Construção da Visibilidade” (W@ARCH.PT). A partir de fragmentos, diálogos e reflexões, a obra reúne quatro narrativas através de um olhar crítico e reflexivo sobre as mulheres e as suas histórias, contribuindo desta
forma para uma narrativa maior — a da história das mulheres arquitetas em Portugal.

2025, Women Rebuild: Stories Polemics Futures

2025, Research in Architectural Urban Interior Design. AUID Yearbook 2024

2024, DAT Journal

Tomando a elaboração projetual da subjetividade enquanto prática de design, o presente estudo delineia um esboço genealógico das projetualidades que conformaram, ao longo do século XX, sujeitos projetivos. Após contextualizar o certame, assinalo duas projetualidades predominantes do século XX, a revolucionária e a integrada, e argumento que ambas fizeram do sujeito um locus de reintegração de técnicas e saberes por meio da prática projetual. Ao concluir que a integração total humano-máquina-ambiente permanece como norte das atuais práticas projetuais, este estudo contribui para a compreensão histórica do design enquanto meio de veiculação e materialização de discursos, valores e condutas.

2024, 19th IPHS Proceedings

2024, MUJER Y ESPACIO DOMÉSTICO. Retratos de la desigualdad de género en la arquitectura y la ciudad modernas.

Es un hecho obvio que la cuestión de la igualdad de género se ha instalado en el núcleo del debate contemporáneo a diversos niveles. A pesar de los numerosos esfuerzos, es algo más dudoso que esta discusión también haya alcanzado con... more

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The participation of Portugal in the First World War opened up a very important discussion in the political field, dividing those who defended Portuguese intervention and those who questioned this option. In March 1916, shortly after Germany’s declaration of war, a group of Portuguese women founded the Portuguese Women’s Crusade (Cruzadas das Mulheres Portuguesas CMP), aiming to support the Portuguese war effort. This article will contextualize this organization, both in the Portuguese political scene and in the context of feminist activism.

2024, Special Collections and University …

This collection contains the papers of architectural historian Sara Holmes Boutelle, including extensive correspondence, research notes, photographs, interview notes, book drafts, articles, book reviews, presentation notes, and newspaper clippings, primarily relating to California architect Julia Morgan, women in American architecture, and historic preservation in the Bay Area, donated by her heirs in 2000. Original Julia Morgan materials found in Boutelle's papers have been processed separately as the Julia Morgan-Sara Holmes Boutelle Collection (MS 27).

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I. Benincampi, E. Gambuti, "Pietro Bracci, architetto «impiegato al servizio straordinario» del governo pontificio nel primo Ottocento", in R. Tamborrino (a cura di), "Strategie di adattamento e patrimonio critico in AISU 2022. Città che... more

2024, Educational Foundations

At the turn of the twentieth century women in voluntary associations joined the chorus of voices that sought to rework the school curriculum from an emphasis on the liberal arts to a functional, more practical focus. In 1900 one activist explained that the members of the major women's organizations "have regarded their children first of all as future mothers and fathers, next as citizens, and they are demanding that public educational systems adopt their standards of values in the adjustment of curricula." 1 These reformers comprised one group that became invested in the curriculum debates that followed the National Education Committee of Ten's report of 1893. However, women reformers are an under-researched influence on the school curriculum of this time period, their efforts having been eclipsed by myriad historical studies of the male professional leaders. Their activ

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This thesis explores Vitruvius and his impact upon other Renaissance architects who compare a city to a building or a building to a city, who match the city and the building into a human body, and who develop their own works. The objective of this study is to furnish an interpretation of their theory and practice through their literature and designs. In this point of view, this article takes notice of Vitruvius' s six concepts coined from venustas and divides them into two parts: i.e. aesthetic quality (ordinatio, dispositio, and distributio) and technical activity (eurythmia, symmetria, and décor) each. This thesis indicates that Vitruvius' s successive impacts from the concepts bring about concrete design principles through proportional measurements, placing together, and hierarchic values for the former, as well as appropriate use through beautiful look, symmetrical harmony, and appropriate uses for the latter, tracking notions between a city as a house and vice versa, and either the ideas of the house or the city in the synthesis of the human body, which follows the perfect number and module based on the human body. The thesis shows that the representations of architecture and the city take place with the form of a circle and a square that express the religious belief and the cosmos, substantiating the connection between the proportions of the human body and numbers, and ultimately satisfying a concept of centrality, which is slowly extended to the enclosed plaza at the urban level from chambers, atrium, and corridors at the residence level.

2024, Lives of the most excellent architects

Lilly Reich, born in Berlin on 16 June 1885 and died on 14 December 1947, left an indelible mark on the world of design, furniture and textiles. Her agile mind and prominent position within the Deutscher Werkbund had a profound influence on these disciplines.Her career, while marked by enriching encounters and experiences, was also shaped by inequalities of treatment and documented injustices. She started out as an embroiderer, but her career led her to cross paths with exceptional women who opened doors for her in the world of design and exhibitions. These encounters contributed to her growing recognition and popularity in the early twentieth century. The injustices she suffered from the 1930s onwards greatly limited her reputation, which needs to be re-examined.

2024, Marcel Bois and Bernadette Reinhold (eds.), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architecture. Politics. Gender. New Perspectives on Her Life and Work. Birkhäuser: Basel

2024, CITTÀ CHE SI ADATTANO? ADAPTIVE CITIES?

This historiographic work shows how women have been significantly hidden from history, shading their involvement in practice and academia behind a male architect’s effigy. The contribution exam-ines Yasmeen Lari’s architectural work showing a humanitarian and socially responsible attitude. The focus is a critical re-reading of her architecture and activities through a gender lens, focusing on the role of women in this process.

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espanolEn la practica profesional de la arquitectura la mujer se ve afectada por una problematica particular y especifica ajena a los patrones y pautas dominantes en una profesion esencialmente masculina y paternalista. El estudio de las arquitectas en un ambito concreto, Galicia, debe servir para conocer una realidad y contribuir con nuevas reflexiones e ideas sobre una practica profesional de la arquitectura con mayor equidad en terminos de genero. Se presentan aqui dos de las tareas iniciales del proyecto �Las Mujeres Arquitectas de GAlicia...�, en concreto la elaboracion de una base de datos de las arquitectas gallegas y las conclusiones de una encuesta realizada �en linea� sobre la practica profesional de estas mujeres. De dichas conclusiones se derivan un conjunto de propuestas germinales que podrian contribuir a mejorar la equidad en la profesion. Por ultimo se reconoce la importancia de los esfuerzos en educacion y en la difusion de la imagen de las arquitectas como factores...

2024, Mujer y espacio doméstico: retratos de la desigualdad de género en la arquitectura y la ciudad modernas.

RESUMEN. Aunque la modernidad hinca sus raíces en la Ilustración, también en Arquitectura, lo cierto es que la crisis de la cultura tradicional tarda en llegar a la vida de la mujer y a los espacios que ella habita. Tomando como... more

2024, VAD Revista Científica de Arquitectura Veredes, arquitectura y divulgación

Las aportaciones de las mujeres en el ámbito de la arquitectura y urbanismo han estado siempre presentes, aunque desde la historiografía oficial hayan sido negadas y silenciadas tras una aparente neutralidad y universalidad en la... more

2024, Lutas Urbanas Feministas / Feminist Urban Struggles

Seminário: Lutas Urbanas Feministas / Feminist Urban Struggles. Priscila Izar et al. São Paulo, 2023.
Resumos / Abstracts

2024, Habitat international

This paper examines the use of space in home-based work in slums in Bangladesh to understand urban poor women's involvement in relation to men. While women's access and use of spaces are restricted by social practice, their income generation initiatives are further affected by settlement specific factors. As a consequence, women's direct and indirect dependence on men emerges. This male-female involvement takes place not only to mutually share the activities of home-based work for operational conveniences but also to supplement a given household's effort to pool income for its survival on a daily basis. Besides cooperation, this involvement also indicates a conflict, manifested by women's absence in the public realm and intra-household transfer of credit. This paper suggests that future inter-sectoral interventions should respond critically to this occurrence of cooperation and conflict to contribute to raising women's status within a given household.

2024, Rajagiri Journal of Social Development

Women have always been considered safe 'char divaron ke ander' (within the four walls). In the last few decades, there has been a phenomenal shift from their engagement within households into the workplaces to create a niche for themselves within the broader society. A woman's mortal fear only increases when she must travel alone, even in the cities, particularly during late evenings but she even finds herself unsafe at home or within a crowded space. She finds her independence constrained by fear for her safety, even more pronouncedly when she is employed and has to travel alone putting herself in danger. Women's safety is the important dimension to be discussed since her self-perception of being safe has a strong connection with her empowerment. Therefore, women safety and empowerment are interwoven. A safe woman is beyond doubt empowered. Discussions which previously pivoted on a woman's freedom, freedom of expression, and equal opportunity, have suddenly shifted to safety, because of the many incidents of atrocities against women, whether on the streets or in any other public spaces. Over the years, many women safety mobile applications have proliferated to address women's safety in public spaces. These applications by various entrepreneurs share similar functions and services such as, an emergency contact list to alert in case of a crisis, transmission of GPS-determined areas, and directions to safe locations etc. But one such application called "Safetipin" has been found, with plenty of other services too, to contribute towards the feeling of security among women. This study intends to engage "Safetipin" as a case study and understand the working modalities and functions of this mobile application. The research was conducted to gauge the readiness of Thiruvananthapuram city in Kerala, India, towards implementing women's safety. The study also aims to mention some of the experiences shared by the social work students during the auditing process.

2024, IJIA

Real and imagined spaces are inherently gendered based on widely accepted heteronormative and patriarchal ways of living, thereby affecting how buildings and cities are accessed, used, and experienced. Moreover, spatial practices... more

2024, Linha mestra

Neste artigo faremos uma reflexão inicial sobre a representação do corpo masculino e do feminino nos artefatos em miriti, mais especificamente na peça casal de namorados e/ou casal de dançarinos 4. O artigo resulta de pesquisa cultural desenvolvida durante os anos de 2013-2015, cujo um dos objetivos foi a análise das relações de gênero em dois ateliês de produção dos artefatos em miriti, em Abaetetuba, cidade ribeirinha do estado do Pará. A interpretação tem lugar no campo dos Estudos Culturais, uma tradição teórico-metodológica e política, cujas características mais expressivas são a versatilidade teórica, a alquimia, e a interdisciplinaridade, tudo para dar conta de seus objetos de pesquisa, quais sejam, os processos subjetivos inerentes à relação cultura-sociedade (JOHNSON, 2000). Neste campo, a cultura constitui-se em um conjunto de significados produzidos em uma arena contestada em meio ao poder e à diferença, o que lhe imprime um caráter aberto, plural, fluido, que é aceito, resistido e negociado. O trabalho de campo se estendeu por dez meses em dois ateliês, um ligado à Asamab 5 e outro à Miritong 6 , tendo se materializado dentro dos flexíveis contornos da etnografia pósmoderna. Esta é constituída a partir da crítica aos limites da etnografia realista 7cujos pressupostos relativos à objetividade, neutralidade e relação sujeito-objeto são definidos nos marcos da ciência modernaque culmina no esforço de descrever a cultura. A etnografia pósmoderna é influenciada pela virada linguística 8 e pela desconstrução 9 , e se caracteriza, grosso modo, pela contingência, pela objetividade provisória, pela influência das relações de poder na relação sujeito-objeto, o que inevitavelmente fará com que a pesquisa seja marcada por intenções, interesses, conflitos e negociações. A despeito das diferenças teóricas, a norma para

2024, Docomomo Journal

Following a thorough and pioneering conservation-science study, the Tugendhat House was restored between 2010 and 2012. The house of Greta and Fritz Tugendhat, in Brno, designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich (1928-1929), is the single example of modern architecture in the Czech Republic inscribed in the list of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites. After an intense and dramatic life with different uses, the house received an outstanding restoration which brought back its original form, space and materiality, and was opened to the public as a House-Museum. This paper aims to bring light to this fascinating story based on the book Tugendhat House. Ludwig Mies van der Rohle by Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Ivo Hammer and Wolf Tegethoff (Basel, Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, 2015), namely on Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat statements and on the experience of the members of the International Expert Advisory Commission THICOM.

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Las revoluciones de género y de la información del siglo pasado han permitido desvelar la dualidad como una estrategia del poder para controlar nuestras vidas y han provocado la destrucción de la alteridad histórica hombre-mujer, físico-virtual, afectando también al campo arquitectónico, donde el tiempo se ha introducido en el espacio para dar cabida a nuevas relaciones y a términos que habitan un vacío inexplorado. El desplazamiento crítico de lo corporal a lo territorial, de lo biológico a lo geográfico y de lo off a lo online solo puede ocurrir en el estado feminista del siglo XXI, una vez que el discurso ha dejado de ser irrefutable y neutral. Mediante prácticas críticas

2024, Género, Conhecimento, Resistências e Ação

When we study 20th-century History of Portuguese Architecture we notice the absence of women architects, a reality replicated in the global history of the discipline. This work dialogues with some genealogical lines that can be useful in sketching a different way of making History, namely the History of Women Architects. We propose a situated methodology that expands sources, voices and narratives, drawing on contributions from feminist historiography in general, including their materialization in Art and Geography. The goal of this proposal is to contextually frame a feminist methodology for the History of Architecture in Portugal that considers plural existences and welcomes multiple ways of embodying and making architecture.

2024, In Torres, Anália; Assunção, Fátima; Pinto, Paula Campos & Maciel, Diana (org.). Género, Conhecimento, Resistências e Ação. Lisboa: Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas. [ISBN 978-989-646-171-3].

2024, Spare Parts

Spare Parts is a series of digital, painted and drawn works which I started in 2023. The original images are layered digitized artworks by others which I have appropriated and worked over first through Photoshop and then by hand after... more

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Frank Lloyd Wright's vision of an organically formed, organized, and functioning agrarian community, as it evolved in the early to mid-twentieth century, is outlined by principles intended to be ever-changing. In considering change, I propose it is essential to evolve these principles to corollate with contemporary necessities, as they are not stagnant ideas, but ones intended to be reactionary to time and place. Wright's principles of plasticity, continuity, simplicity, horizontality, and harmony support the organic goals of reintegration and communal individuality. This organic community was first proposed as Broadacre City and evolved into the fartherreaching Usonia through the reiterations of the text accompanying Wright's organic community plan, reinforcing the action of decentralization and values of traditional agrarianism. Though Broadacre City has been studied endlessly in architecture and planning circles, since its conception, an understanding of the dynamic principles Wright infuses into the form, function, organization, governing systems, and land use have yet to be evolved holistically, as the organic theory requires, to apply to self-and communally-reliant, sustainable, and reactive communities in the twentyfirst century. By focusing on the aspects of these principles that make a community and its population both communally and self-reliant and sustainable, we may better understand how Usonia may still be the organic community of the future. Keywords Organic architecture • Community agrarianism • Community sustainability • Urban agrarianism • Organic planning 1 From Broadacre City to Usonia Criticism of the city, its operations, underlying systems of inequity, and its stifling, stagnant architecture, did not begin, nor did it end with Frank Lloyd Wright. Solutions, deemed to be organic, that respond to the unsustainable processes and forms within the city have been labeled utopian for centuries due to a fracturing of norms

2024, Feminising urban struggles: bodies, territories and politics in the production of peripheral spaces

A entrevista com Carolina foi a mais dolorosa e sensível que eu fiz para a minha pesquisa de dissertação de mestrado. Carolina é uma mulher de 50 anos, preta, de cabelos trançados e manchas na pele. Estudou até a primeira série e está desempregada, mas trabalhava como diarista. Ela trouxe na entrevista a interseccionalidade de classe, raça e gênero que vive na pele. Moram com ela a filha de 24 anos, o filho de 22 anos e o netinho de 2 meses. Durante a entrevista, ela ficou com o neto no colo, segurando-o como se tentasse proteger ele daquela realidade tão dolorida. A família mora há 4 anos em um barraco de madeira na comunidade Mangueirinha, localizada no extremo leste da cidade de São Paulo. Parte da casa é suspensa por palafitas sobre o córrego que cruza a comunidade e que recebe o esgoto das 2000 famílias que moram no território. O barraco tem um cômodo, sem instalação hidráulica e elétrica. O banheiro, construído do lado de fora, está com o piso cedendo sobre o córrego. O deslizamento aconteceu pelas chuvas que encheram o córrego e inundaram sua casa até o nível das janelas. Para acessar água, Carolina busca com balde na torneira da casa de alvenaria da vizinha à frente do lote. Não tem caixa d’água, armazena água em baldes. Tudo ela faz com balde. Sua casa não tem pia de cozinha, lava a louça em uma bacia e depois joga a água utilizada no vaso sanitário, que tem um cano para o córrego. Assim, o corpo de Carolina torna-se parte da infraestrutura. O caminho que ela faz várias vezes ao dia pegando água com balde na torneira da vizinha faz o papel do cano de abastecimento de água, já suas mãos são como a torneira da pia da cozinha, ao lavar a louça com água do balde em uma bacia sobre uma mesa. Após, seu corpo torna-se novamente cano ao levar o esgoto gerado até o vaso sanitário, e depois é como a descarga jogando a água residual na privada, torcendo para que o encanamento não entupa e leve todo esse esgoto para o córrego. Frente a realidade de insegurança hídrica da comunidade Mangueirinha, o objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar como os corpos das moradoras são constituídos por meio de práticas cotidianas para complementar a falta de infraestrutura do território. Com a aplicação de uma metodologia feminista, o trabalho analisa as experiências corporificadas de acesso água e como os corpos são produzidos na prática cotidiana e tornam-se parte da infraestrutura. Tais transformações corporais são a materialização da desigualdade e da violência e a sua naturalização no cotidiano urbano. A análise deste estudo é feita através de narrativas e desenhos, um fazer pesquisa feminista acompanhado pela criatividade além da escrita do texto acadêmico, colocando em pauta a corporificação, a capacidade de agência e também o desconforto, afim de debater uma produção contínua com reflexões sobre desigualdades e subordinações de gênero, raça e classe no objetivo comum de transformação social.

2024, Jorge Teixeira Dias. Works 2008-2019

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Intentional communities, Cooperatives de logement, Genossenschaften or Co-housing are types of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighbourhoods. Cohousing residents are consciously committed to living as a community, and to managing the accommodation by themselves. The physical design to combine both social contact and individual space requires a gradual range of semi-public/-private spaces. Collective investment opens opportunities for renewable energy networks and sustainable innovative building. Many initiators as well as scholars therefore see a potential in the projects as experiments for the transition toward sustainable production and collaborative governance. Housing politicians and executive institutes tend to be more sceptical and perceive cooperative self-steered housing as peripheral solutions for a small minority of dwellers. This paper approaches the field from an architectural point of view. It applies criteria from gender-theory to investigate in how far the intentional communities represent a model for inclusive, ecological housing.

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2024, Espirales: Revista para a Integração da América Latina e Caribe

Resumo: Entre os inúmeros dispositivos epistêmicos ou práticas políticas que fundamentam os processos opressivos impingidos pela colonização capitalista, destacamos a hierarquização, por ser uma daquelas práticas-conceitos que se apresentam numa roupagem moral, dissimulando assim sua carga de violência. Toda hierarquia sustenta-se em um suposto valor maior, estabelecendo quase uma sinonímia com nossa prática de julgar, um dos pilares fundantes do social e do gnosiológico das culturas ocidentalizadas. O julgamento cria divisões binárias, responsáveis por estruturar um pensamento dicotômico que prevalece até hoje e se baseia, principalmente, na divisão cientificista entre verdadeiro e falso, consequência da partição moral e religiosa entre o bem e o mal. Este trabalho procura refletir sobre as diversas hierarquias escondidas em nossas práticas de viver, relacionar, trabalhar, conhecer, olhar etc. O objetivo é apontar os mecanismos nefastos que transformam nossas diferenças em discriminação, desvalorização e subordinação. A análise proposital de seis exemplos bem díspares entre si desses procedimentos-reflexões sobre o conceito de cópia nos manuscritos mesoamericanos e no seriado She-Ra e as princesas do poder (2018); a questão do "outro" nos audiovisuais A Dupla Jornada (1975, 54') e A Deusa Negra (1978, 95'); bem como a reapropriação em A Prata e a Cruz (2010, 17') e Do Pólo ao Equador (1986, 101')-busca elencar e apontar tentativas de desierarquização, tão necessárias para que seja possível estabelecer negociações mais equitativas nos possíveis relacionamentos internacionais entre distintas culturas.

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A pesquisa subsidia a compreensão da arte transformista no Distrito Federal e Entorno, produz indicadores sociais, econômicos e culturais por meio do mapeamento das (e dos) artistas deste segmento. Além disso, busca evidenciar sua complexa cadeia produtiva, e o espectro de linguagens e identificações estéticas, éticas e políticas dos agentes.

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I certify that this thesis satisfies the requirements as a thesis for the degree of Master of Architecture.

2024, Cidades comunidades e territórios

In search of a feminist perspective for Berlin and an answer to the question of what a non-sexist city could and should look like, an analysis of hegemonic and feminist spatial systems was carried out based on practice-based teaching research formats. Using critical mapping (Harley, 1989; Wood, 1992) with a collective-feminist approach, this paper will demonstrate the potential of the map as a tool that allows for a non-hegemonic perspective of space. The mapping research reveals how the dichotomy of the terms public and private determines hegemonic spatial systems and how the concept of commons as a counter-image and third spatial realm opens up a possible typology of feminist spatial systems. Thus, in the evaluation of the results, the need for new common notions in urban planning discourse is discussed.

2024, Cidades comunidades e territórios

2024, CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios

Feminisms and the spacialization of resistances: Keeping the fight alive Since the beginning of the first decade of the 21st century, an interest about studies in feminism and architecture was recaptured by some scholars in the Anglo-Saxon context influencing new generations to come. This reviving of women's studies in architecture had a more difficult path in other latitudes that lacked academic references in different languages, but it would soon blow up starting from the Mediterranean region. In 2014, the first international congress was organized in Seville, Spain, by scholar Nuria Alvarez Lombardero, around architectural practice. This initiative called Arquitectas: redefining the practice started with a small support from the University of Seville, Spain. Still, it courageously caught the attention of different researchers worldwide with similar concerns. The call for papers was answered by more than fifty proposals of all kinds that voiced a need to expose a resistance to obscurantism concerning the subject. Fourteen articles were selected and structured following the major themes: places of exclusion, rewriting the history of architecture, worldwide practices, and new forms of practice. Supporting these reflections, five women architects were invited as guest speakers to share their positions and experiences around the subject of practice, allowing a deeper conversation transcripted in the book Arquitectas: redefiniendo la práctica presented at the XIII Spanish Bienal of Architecture and Urbanism (Alvarez Lombardero, N. 2015). Gratifyingly, the congress became the inception of an extensive network of researchers and scholars that still operates today with more than 1,000 people connected worldwide. Following this, the congress moved in 2015 to Lisbon, Portugal, under the title of Matrices, which evoked the idea of the matrix as an environment where "things develop, the models or patterns that shape formations, and they can also reinvent an environment" 1. Larger in size than the previous event, this second international congress gathered new themes and researchers, expanding the previous pioneering one. Organizers Patricia Santos Pedrosa, Eliana Sousa Santos, and Maria João Matos set a series of presentation groups that allowed intersectionalities between researchers, original findings and fruitful conversations.

2024, Zarch: Journal of interdisciplinary studies in architecture and urbanism

doctorado sobre la disolución de los límites trazados por el urbanismo moderno. Ha publicado diferentes artículos en revistas internacionales, como RA, Metalocus y Archithese y los libros Politics of Fabrication (ViBok 2017) y Arquitectas: Redefining the Practice (Recolectores Urbanos), siendo este último premiado en la XIII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo.