ABSTRACT

This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands. Within the current urban and geopolitical contexts, it addresses the emergence of new social and political theories that raise questions of identity and difference in modern society. The book reiterates feminist concerns with space from the critical stance of the new millennium.

With contributions from the leading theorists and thinkers from around the world representing the fields of architecture, art, philosophy and gender studies, this book has a truly international and interdisciplinary reach.

chapter Chapter 1|14 pages

Altering Practices

chapter Chapter 3|18 pages

Evaluating Matrix

Notes from inside the collective

chapter Chapter 4|12 pages

An Invisible Privilege

chapter Chapter 5|20 pages

How to Take Place

(But only for so long)

chapter Chapter 6|24 pages

Building while Being in IT

Notes on drawing ‘otherhow’

chapter Chapter 7|12 pages

Stray Sods

Eight dispositions on the ‘feminine’, space and writing

chapter Chapter 9|12 pages

Altering Events in Architecture

chapter Chapter 10|14 pages

Urban Curating

A critical practice towards greater ‘connectedness’

chapter Chapter 12|12 pages

Building Clouds, Drifting Walls

chapter Chapter 13|12 pages

Urban Traces

Civic performance art and memory in public space

chapter Chapter 14|28 pages

Sex & Space

Space / gender / economy

chapter Chapter 15|17 pages

Refiguring Dis/Embodiment

chapter Chapter 16|22 pages

Stabat Mater

On standing in for matter