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.Continue reading “Feminist Spatial Practices”
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Vocatives
RELATED TERMS: Remembering; A vocative expression is one in which a person is directly referred to in dialogue, for example, by their name, their job title or position or by a term of endearment, respect or disrespect. In the context of writing, vocatives can serve several purposes, such as, to help readers to keep track ofContinue reading “Vocatives”
Remembering: Mnemonics, Mnemotechne and Memory
RELATED TERMS: [Of] Grammatography; Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis; Exosomatisation; Learning “Cities are made of sedimented strata of memory” (Adams, 2021) Frances Joseph (2010: 302) points out that mnemotechne is an archaic term for how memory and thought are fundamentally related to the inorganic through the world’s materiality. As such, she comments, it may well be theContinue reading “Remembering: Mnemonics, Mnemotechne and Memory”
Technology
RELATED TERMS: Remembering: Mnemonics, Mnemotechne and Memory [Katie] Hafner: I’ve heard Bran [Ferren] say before that he thinks technology should be invisible. [Danny] Hillis: Good technology ceases to become technology. You don’t think of a pencil as technology, because it just does what it’s supposed to do. You don’t think of a book as technology, becauseContinue reading “Technology”
Performance and Performativity
RELATED TERMS: Actant; Happenings; Metalepsis; Methodology and Method; Paradigm; Performance Art; “You are more than entitled to know what the word ‘performative’ means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it does not mean anything very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its favour, it is notContinue reading “Performance and Performativity”
Phenomenology
RELATED TERMS: Affordances; Arendt; Feminism and Materialism; Heidegger; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Ontology; Philosophy; Place, Space, Placiality, Spatiality; Present-at-hand (Vorhanden) and Ready-to-hand (Zuhanden); If it is accepted that the human is one of the main constituents or domains of actantiality in the realisation of a design, then the relevance of phenomenology becomes apparent, asContinue reading “Phenomenology”
s-o-f-t.agency [Soft Agency]
RELATED TERMS: According to their website, Soft Agency is a group of female architects, artists, curators, scholars and writers from across the world who work with spatial practices. Their work is rooted in feminist methodological practices and formats, at the intersection of critical spatial practice, radical pedagogies, collectivities of becoming otherwise and alternative modes ofContinue reading “s-o-f-t.agency [Soft Agency]”
Organology
RELATED TERMS: A general organology is an account of life when it involves not just organic matter but organised inorganic matter. As Stiegler (2020: 73) puts it, “General organology attempts to establish a theory of technical life, conceived here as a process whose evolution is indissolubly psycho-socio-techno-logical, in addition to being relatively bio-logical, which meansContinue reading “Organology”
Defamiliarisation
USE for: Defamiliarization; Ostranenie; Making Strange RELATED TERMS: Avant-garde movements; Modernism; Psychogeography; Situationist International; Alienation effect (Verfremdungseffekt); Epic theatre – Brecht; Xu Zhen Supermarket; Dissensus – Ranciere; Genre – and Story (fabula) and Plot (sjuzet); Story (fabula) and Plot (sjuzet or sjuzhet); Realism Defamiliarisation, Ostranenie or making strange is a literary device that was brought to attentionContinue reading “Defamiliarisation”
Decolonisation and Decoloniality
RELATED TERMS: Modernity and Coloniality Decolonisation is the historical struggle for national sovereignty against colonialism. In recent history, the term is most often applied to the decolonisations that took place in the period after World War II, when European countries generally lacked the wealth and political support necessary to suppress faraway revolts in their colonies. Furthermore,Continue reading “Decolonisation and Decoloniality”
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