Learning from Environmental History and Theory: Agency of Others
Tulay Atak
Architecture, Architecture
2023W, Vorlesungen (VO), 2.0 ECTS, 2.0 semester hours, course number S04300
Description
Environmental history and theory provides 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, Michelle Murphy, this course will particularly address the role that women have played in environmentalist movements and in 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 example, we will discuss the agency and accountability of architecture as a field.
Dates
05 October 2023, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
12 October 2023, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
19 October 2023, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
09 November 2023, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
16 November 2023, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
23 November 2023, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
30 November 2023, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
07 December 2023, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
14 December 2023, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
11 January 2024, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
18 January 2024, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
25 January 2024, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
01 February 2024, 09:00–10:30 Seminar Room 10
Course Enrolment
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Curriculum Allocation
Architecture (Master): Expertise: Theory: Theory of Science and Theory of Society 443/003.03
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Free Electives out of Scientific and Research Practice 605/202.80
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Media Theory,Art&Knowledge Transfer,Th. of Architecture,Th. and Hist. of Design 605/202.02
Design: Specialisation in Graphic Design (2. Section): Theoretical Basics: Humanities 576/203.02
Design: Specialisation in Communication Design (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
Expanded Museum Studies (Master): Electives: Theory and History of Architecture 537/080.22
Studies in Art and Culture (Master): Electives Area 2: History and Theory of Architecture 568/006.13
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
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 (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 071/003.80
Media Arts: Specialisation in Digital Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie, Geschichte: Architekturtheorie, Architekturgeschichte 567/208.06
Media Arts: Specialisation in Transmedia Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie und Geschichte : Architekturtheorie, Architekturgeschichte 566/208.06
TransArts - Transdisciplinary Arts (Bachelor): Theoretical foundations: Theoretical foundations 180/003.01
Co-registration: possible
Attending individual courses: possible