RELATED TERMS: Spatial Practices
As Schalk et al (2017) note, spatial practices is a broad term for architectural, artistic, design and other disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices engaged in studying and transforming space. Feminism, because feminist politics believes that things can be otherwise and that they can be changed, offers an optimistic outlook on the future. (Söderbäck, 2012). There are, however, many varieties of feminism, or feminisms, and notions about what feminism contributes to the future and how such a future could be produced.
For Schalk et al. feminist spatial practice may be pursued as a development of Jane Rendell’s understanding of critical spatial practice. Rendell (2011, 24) identifies five prevalent themes, collectivity, interiority, alterity, materiality, and performativity, that suggest both the subject matter that resonates with feminists and the modes of operation that feature strongly in a feminist critical spatial practice. Transgressing the boundaries of disciplines as well as theory and practice, feminist spatial practice develops new terms of engagement, including tactics and ethics of practice.
Based on alternative experiences, worldviews and subjectivities, feminist spatial practice generates different terms upon which everyday life and social relations can be organised. They are practices of ontological reframing, re-viewing or re-doing differently which cultivate forms of creativity emerging from an experimental, performative and ethical orientation to the world. Feminist spatial practice, as an ontological project, reconstructs both our present practices and our desired futures.
References
Schalk, M. et al. (2017) ‘Introduction: anticipating feminist futures of spatial practice’, in Schalk, M., Kristiansson, T., and Maze, R. (eds) Feminist futures of spatial practice: materialisms, activisms, pedagogies, projections. Baunach, DE: Spurbuchverlag, pp. 13–23.
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