Learning from Environmental History and Theory: Agency of Others
Tulay Atak
Architecture, Architecture
2022W, Vorlesungen (VO), 2.0 ECTS, 2.0 semester hours, course number S04300
Description
Environmental history and theory provide a way to consider architecture in relation to histories of energy, extraction, infrastructure, production, supply chain, and labor. The environmental lens on history is a way to encompass all the elements of the built world (people, place, technology), allowing for making connections across a variety of scales from building details to cities. Environmental history and theory provide ways to consider architecture’s disciplinarity, how research is defined in architecture and how architecture incorporates knowledge from other disciplines. It offers a vantage point where the limits of the discipline come into view, where new affinities can be drawn and articulated, and where we can ask the question, “how do we know what we know?” and “what can we do with what we know?”
Studying the works of figures like Rachel Carson, Wangari Maathai, Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, and Michelle Murphy, this course will particularly address the role that women have played in environmentalist movements and the development of environmental humanities, focusing on reproduction / production, care / cure, experimentation / control as primary themes. We will be studying and analyzing how these themes can be located within the discipline of architecture in historical and contemporary case studies and texts. As we consider concrete examples, we will discuss the agency and accountability of architecture as a field.
Examination Modalities
There will be readings assigned for each week. Students will write a midterm essay and a final paper. The final paper can be a revised and extended version of the midterm essay. The paper will focus on the analysis of a selected project or text, determined in discussions with the professor.
Dates
06 October 2022, 10:00–12:00 , "I oA Square"
13 October 2022, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 23
20 October 2022, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 3
27 October 2022, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 23
03 November 2022, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 8
10 November 2022, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 20
17 November 2022, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 23
24 November 2022, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 20
01 December 2022, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 23
15 December 2022, 10:00–12:00 FLUX 2
12 January 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 23
19 January 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 23
02 February 2023, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 23
Course Enrolment
Via online registration
Curriculum Allocation
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 071/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 071/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
TransArts - Transdisciplinary Arts (Bachelor): Theoretical foundations: Theoretical foundations 180/003.01
Architecture (Master): Expertise: Theory: Theory of Science and Theory of Society 443/003.03
Expanded Museum Studies (Master): Electives: Theory and History of Architecture 537/080.22
Media Arts: Specialisation in Transmedia Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie und Geschichte : Architekturtheorie, Architekturgeschichte 566/208.06
Media Arts: Specialisation in Digital Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie, Geschichte: Architekturtheorie, Architekturgeschichte 567/208.06
Studies in Art and Culture (Master): Electives Area 2: History and Theory of Architecture 568/006.13
Design: Specialisation in Graphic Design (2. Section): Theoretical Basics: Humanities 576/203.02
Design: Specialisation in Graphics and Advertising (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Humanities 577/203.02
Design: Specialisation in Fashion Design (1. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Free Elective Pool Methodological and Theoretical Basics 584/103.80
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Media Theory,Art&Knowledge Transfer,Th. of Architecture,Th. and Hist. of Design 605/202.02
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Free Electives out of Scientific and Research Practice 605/202.80
Co-registration: possible
Attending individual courses: possible