The University and the Camp

If we take seriously the concerns and problematics of decolonizing the mind, we might begin by looking for sources of knowledge in the refugee camp. Camps have long been sites of empirical research: in their darkest form, as sites of detention and concentration, and in a putatively lighter form, as liberatory vehicles for the rescued and their saviours. What if camps did not serve empiricist ends of knowledge, but instead, theoretical ones? If so, then the humanitarian would become the student, the refugee the professor, and the architecture of the camp that of the university. This lecture imagines this architecture. This text draws from the keynote address given on January 25, 2019, at the workshop convened by Somayeh Chitchian, Maja Momic, and Shahd Wari at the Max Planck Insitute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity: “Inside-Out / Outside-In: Shifting Architectures of Refugee Inhabitation.

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On Margins: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration

“A Future Architect?” pencil on paper drawing by S.M. Pithawalla, and “Women Should Not Become Architects!” remarks by G.B. Kahirasagar to the Sir J.J. College of Art School of Architecture Literary and Debating Society. These remarks opened a discussion with Perin Mistri, “our only lady student of Architecture.” Mistri became licensed by the Royal Institute of British Architects (riba) and practiced in Bombay for several years, as a principal in an architectural firm and the Secretary of th..

On Collaborations: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration

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On Collaborations: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration

History & Complexit

On Diffractions: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration

In this collection, we examine people, places, and things as diffracted through migration. Migration is an event and a concept. Diffraction is what happens in the moment when energy meets an obstacle. The feminist histories collected here speak of that moment.History & Complexit

On Margins: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration

“On Margins: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration,” builds on the following two premises: that the dynamic of a situated and re-situated perspective is foundational to feminist histories of architecture, and that feminist historiographical approaches destabilize presumptions of fixity that have propelled the writing of architectural histories. Through histories of architectures that emerged from individual or collective acts and experiences of migration, the texts in this collection investigate migration and confinement as drivers for modern architecture and its histories, focusing on works by professionally qualified women architects as well as uncredited makers of the built environment. These architectures of migration bring into view margins—whether architectural, structural, cultural, (geo)political, environmental, or economic. This themed section, as one intervention in the broader “Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration” collection sited in multiple journals, posits expanded historiographies that emerge from intersections of architecture, migration, and margins. These offer possibilities to restore absences and silences in the historical record and open onto new theorizations and perspectives situated around the world

Displacement and Domesticity Since 1945 - TEACHING TOOL

This open-source teaching tool is intended as a starting point for scholars working on the history and theory of displacement and domesticity. The document tackles the importance of the theoretical and discursive intersection of displacement and domesticity; provoked participants to reflect on their role as producers and consumers of knowledge; interrogated the ways in which concepts and modes of knowledge are transferred and exchanged among scholars as well as among broader publics; and, considered the potential for the generative and the generous in this emerging scholarship. The following document is thus neither conclusive nor comprehensive, but reflects the outcomes of the workshop. Users of the teaching tool are invited to tailor it. We are grateful to those who would like to make use of, share and further develop this teaching tool, who would thereby keep it alive and add to the collective endeavour of its creation. At the same time, we are grateful if you cite this source file: Displacement & Domesticity International Conference (2019). Displacement & Domesticity Teaching Tool. Retrieved from A2I Research Group KULeuven * The Teaching Tool was developed collaboratively in a one-day workshop for doctoral students as part of the European Architectural History Network themed conference, Displacement and Domesticity: Refugees, Migrants, and Expats Making Homes (27-29 March 2019, Brussels).status: Published onlin