Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies Economies Technologies

Set against the background of a ‘general crisis’ that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of specific intersections between architecture and feminisms, understood in the plural. The collected essays and projects that make up the book follow transversal trajectories that criss-cross between ecologies, economies and technologies, exploring specific cases and positions in relation to the themes of the archive, control, work and milieu. This collective intellectual labour can be located amidst a worldwide depletion of material resources, a hollowing out of political power and the degradation of constructed and natural environments. Feminist positions suggest ways of ethically coping with a world that is becoming increasingly unstable and contested. The many voices gathered here are united by the task of putting critical concepts and feminist design tools to use in order to offer experimental approaches to the creation of a more habitable world. Drawing inspiration from the active archives of feminist precursors, existing and re-imagined, and by way of a re-engagement in the histories, theories and projected futures of critical feminist projects, the book presents a collection of twenty-three essays and eight projects, with the aim of taking stock of our current condition and re-engaging in our precarious environment-worlds.Additional ISBNs1138304883, 0203729714, 9781138304888, 9780203729717Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies 1st Edition is written by Hélène Frichot and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Architecture and Feminisms are 9781351396202, 135139620X and the print ISBNs are 9781138304871, 1138304875. Additional ISBNs include 1138304883, 0203729714, 9781138304888, 9780203729717.