ABSTRACT
This chapter explores and develops Jennifer Bloomer ideas of the minor, Elizabeth Grosz ideas about the gendered and co-creating relations between bodies and cities, and Susan Buck-Mors's ideas about the gendered experiences of wandering in the city. Grosz argued that the corporeal ought to be given equal value to the phenomenological or psychoanalytic in the interpretation of any specific creation. Two corporeal conditions are integral to the body images of the women who created Urban Threads: eating disorders and drug addiction. Urban Threads, in siting itself at each of these limits of the traditional concerns of architecture, reveals quite specific relationships between the gendered, physical body and material fabric of the city. But by day, the city also covertly and overtly restricts the trajectories of homeless women. The Path of Most Resistance represented the migrational path of my collaborators, their daytime wandering lines, and revealed to those that trod the path, the resistances they experienced.
