a feminist design toolbox:
(for keeping and understanding backyard birds)
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introduction
flocking . feminist . fowls . is a feminist design toolbox for keeping and understanding backyard birds. While this may seem a strange place to begin a feminist exploration, it proves an interesting and worthy point of departure. Each reading presents a different perspective on the subject. Some relationships are quite explicit while others are more abstract and philosophical. All offer guidance (where it will take you is up to you) on keeping birds, plus wider philosophical questions. I have included an extra list of feminist design power tools at the end of the readings which can be applied to almost any topic and read more like a manifesto.There is not a linear book. Although the pages are numbered you can read them in any order, in fact I encourage you to jump as often and as far as your thoughts do. enjoy your fowl feminist flockings.
four hundred and twenty-five elephants flying in the sky how to start with chickens: universality, details & premature gratification
2
there’s always something deeper underground keeping your chickens: think like a rhizome
4
fowl bodies of architecture whatever happened to the backyard chicken?
6
which came first? the eternal question
8
hum[an.imal] urb[an.imal]
10
a beautiful life, and one bad day change. hope. a way out. when it all seems like too much...
12
conclusion
14
addendum
15
a collection of feminist design power tools
16
bibliography
18
four hundred and twenty-five elephants flying in the sky
I promise this will make sense in the end…
This got me thinking. Is universality in the details? Can something be “both personal and at the same
The very first architecture textbook handed to me
time a source of social solidarity, that yearned for
was Analysing Architecture by Simon Unwin. With
thing ‘community’.” (Shonfield. p.20)
its matte black cover and gorgeous illustrations, it smelt as new knowledge should. At the beginning of
Rewinding now…to an interview between Gabriel
each chapter was a meticulous graphite illustration
Garcia Marquez and Peter H. Stone published in the
paired with a quote from someone far more worldly
1981 Winter issue of The Paris Review, where the
and knowing than myself. One of these quotes was
author touched on the universality of details.
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The detail in which he constructed the environment was so universal yet so
INTERVIEWER
specific that I could not help but believe it.
There also seems to be a journalistic quality to that technique or tone. You describe seemingly fantastic
Fast forward 7 years (I am aware that architecture
events in such minute detail that it gives them their
degrees generally take a shorter time frame…but
own reality. Is this something you have picked up
hey I get distracted, I wander and drift) to “a muf
from journalism?
manual”, in which Katherine Shonfield describes the transition from the particular to the general and
GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
back to the particular.
That’s a journalistic trick which you can also apply to literature. For example, if you say that there are
“…so the equation detail/strategy = DETAIL forces
elephants flying in the sky, people are not going
a paradoxical recognition of the universality of the
to believe you. But if you say that there are four
detail, the up close and personal.” (Shonfield. p.20)
hundred and twenty-five elephants flying in the sky,
how to start with chickens: universal
lity, details & premature gratification
3
people will probably believe you. One Hundred Years
So to answer muf’s on questions of “How do
of Solitude is full of that sort of thing. That’s exactly
you develop a city-wide strategy when you are
the technique my grandmother used. I remember
fascinated by the detail of things? And how can you
particularly the story about the character who is
make something small-scale in the here and now
surrounded by yellow butterflies. When I was very
if you are driven by the urge to formulate strategic
small there was an electrician who came to the
proposals for the future? (Shonfield. p.14) you may
house. I became very curious because he carried a
become a novelist in a journalistic guise. Record
belt with which he used to suspend himself from the
details unencumbered by the habitual detachment
electrical posts. My grandmother used to say that
of the strategist, record minutely what is, while
every time this man came around, he would leave
remaining unworried by what should be (Shonfield.
the house full of butterflies. But when I was writing
p.15).
this, I discovered that if I didn’t say the butterflies were yellow, people would not believe it. That’s how
Perhaps details allow us premature gratification
I did it, to make it credible. The problem for every
of understanding. They give us a chance to flick
writer is credibility. Anybody can write anything so
through our memory, comparing new stimulus
long as it’s believed.
to past experiences, interrupting the pattern of uncertainty and creating comfort in our thoughts.
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that
When embarking on a feathered journey, remember
is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That’s the
universality is in the details.
only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
Katherine Shonfield, ‘Premature Gratification and Other Pleasures’ in This is What we do: a muf manual, London: Elipsis London, 2001.
there’s always something deeper underground
Rhizomes. What does ginger, bamboo and turmeric
[t]he appeal of interdisciplinarity is no doubt in
have to do with feminist power tools?
part a reaction against the seemingly conservative, even repressive implications of discipline: it is
In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a modified
addociated with punishment, control, oppression,
subterranean stem of a plant that is usually found
and pain, or inflexible rules, hierachies, and
underground, often sending out roots and shoots
methodologies. Discipline is also related to an even
from its nodes.
more pejorative word: disciple, a person who si a
En.wikipedia.org (2013). Rhizome. [online] Retrieved
follower, a sycophant, a convert, a zealot. Advocates
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome
of interdisciplinarity tend to believe that it is the very
[Accessed: 9 Oct 2013].
nature of discipline to isolate itself and to produce disciples. THis it is not much of a stretch to consider
I made notes on the side of the page to remind
that the appeal of interdisciplinarity lies in its
myself of the need to dig deeper. Why was Doina
potential to serve as a euphemism for academic of
Petruscu repeatedly mentioning rhizomes? My
artistic freedom.
only expereince with rhizomes has been in my
Mark Linder,”TRANSdisciplinarity” Hunch #9, 12
own garden. Perennial plants like asparagus, and ginger. Was it their multiplicity, heterogeneity or
I was not quite sure of how I was going to link the
connectedness?
two thoughts together until I came across this passage;
Jumping abruptly to the second reading by Lori Brown, I was specifically interested in the passage
…the principal characteristics of a rhizome: unlike
on interdisciplinarity, and the quote she provided;
trees or their roots, the rhizome connects any point to any other point, and its traits are not necessarily
keeping your chickens
s: think like a rhizome
5
linked to traits of the same nature.
no specific origin or genesis, for a ‘rhizome has
Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. 1987. A thousand
no beginning or end; it is always in the middle,
plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: U of
between things, interbeing, intermezzo.’ The planar
Minnesota P, 2 p. 21.
movement of the rhizome resists chronology and organisation, instead favouring a nomadic system of
My power tool for this week is to be a rhizome.
growth and propagation.
“As a model for culture, the rhizome resists
Although what is above the surface may receive
the organisational structure of the root-tree
most attention from a majority of people, I will
system [monodisciplinarity; architecture] which
remind myself that there’s always something deeper
charts causality along chronological lines and
underground - like worms...if I was a chicken.
looks for the original source of ‘things’ and looks towards the pinnacle or conclusion of those ‘things.’ (a building, a plan, a drawing) A rhizome, [inter or transdisciplinarity] on the other hand, is characterised by ‘ceaselessly established connections between semiotic chains, [collaborations] organisations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences, and social struggles.’ [community oriented design] Rather than narrativise history and culture, the rhizome presents history and culture as a map or wide array of attractions and influences with
Doina Petrescu, ‘Altering Practices’ in Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space, London: Routledge, 2007.
fowl bodies of architecture
whatever happened to
I revisited ‘Bad Press’ by Elizabeth Diller after reading
dynamic language of energy [food] was central to
what I thought to be a totally unrelated article by
many utopian social and political ideologies of the
Andrea Gaynor, entitled ’Fowls and the Contested
early twentieth century…these movements viewed
Productive Spaces of Australian Suburbia, 1890-
the body [chickens] both as a productive force and
1990′.
as a political instrument whose energies could be subjected to scientifically designed systems of
However, when read parallel the two articles are
organisation…It was not long before the practice
interchangeable in commentary, theme and critique,
of engineering bodies [chickens] for the factory
albeit told through different material assemblages.
was introduced into the office, the school, and the hospital. (Diller, 1996, p.77)
Below is an ecofeminist literary collage of the two articles. It makes for an interesting parallel
Over the course of the twentieth century, fowls
comparison. Original text is crossed out like this
[housewives] were progressively deprived of their
while the new text [is added like this].
economic, cultural and spatial niche in Australian residential suburbs and the egg and poultry meat
At the end of the nineteenth century, the body
[nutritional] requirements were instead produced
[chickens] began to be understood as a mechanical
by birds housed in [factory labourers in] large-
component of industrial productivity, an extension
scale peri-urban or rural commercial batteries and
of the factory apparatus. Scientific management,
barns [factories]. This reconfiguration dramatically
or Taylorism, sought to rationalise and standardise
altered the experience of fowls as a species
the motions of this body [chickens], harnessing its
[eating home meals] in Australia and impacted on
[their] dynamic energy and converting it to efficient
suburban ecologies. It resulted primarily from the
labor power. According to Anson Rabinbach, “the
pursuit of class-based visions of ideal cities and
the backyard chicken?
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home environments and the embodiment of these
the home [factory farm] rose to compulsive levels.
visions in local by-laws [modern ideologies], but
(Diller, 1996, p.80)
also involved shifts in the economic organisation of households and the egg [food and packaging]
Ideas about appropriate housing in the domestic
industry . (Gaynor, 2012, p.205)
context were also changing; in the 1950′s, for example, Your Garden magazine informed readers
…’farms’ [modern kitchens] with their neat and
that ‘to keep fowls [prepare meals] in the modern
orderly arrangement of sheds [appliance and
way – you must have an ultra-modern fowlhouse
decoration] (especially when viewed from the air)
[kitchen and food system]. Small scale backyard
were promoted as the ‘modern’ way to produce
battery cages [pre-cooked meals] were promoted
eggs [prepare meals]. Such operations reduced
as one of the two types of ‘ultra modern fowlhouse’
human labour but relied more heavily on imported
[time-savers for housewives], being [making] ‘not
and processed foodstuffs, entailed a greater need
only a machine in which to keep fowls [difference in
to transport inputs and products, and provided the
time and effort required in the preparation], but… a
fowls [family members] with environments and diets
machine [meal] which practically takes care of them
that were almost certainly less varied that those
[cooks itself]‘. (Gaynor, 2012, p.209)
found in [their] backyards. (Gaynor, 2012, p.208) The drive for efficiency, however, did not fulfil its liberating promise. Efficiency was often takes as an objective in itself. Ironically, it condemned the housewife [chicken] to an increased workload as the expectations and standards of cleanliness in
Elizabeth Diller, ‘Bad Press’ in Francesca Hughes, ed. The Architect Reconstructing her Practice, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996, pp. 7495.
which came first?
The unit of survival is organism plus environment. (Bateson, 1972, p.483)
the eterna
Which came first – the chicken or the egg?
al question
9
Which came first – the organism or the environment?
I suppose we will never know. There is not much more to say.
Zoe Sofia, ‘Container Technologies’ in Hypatia Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 181-200.
hum[an.imal] urb[an.imal]
a beautiful life, a
In the beginning, I adored. What I adored was
For I have wandered so far from that which is myself,
human[imal]. (Cixous and Jenson, 1991, p. 1)
my wild imprudence.
Tap, tap, tap; light. He was born.
Summer houses, old timber apple boxes and pre washed denim. Give me the seasons and strike the
Tap, tap, tap; dark. He was gone.
trees with twelve colours of wind as they wash away their leaves.
Gone only because he was a he. His voice, his colour, his irrepressible urge to address the morning sun.
Home.
There were three he’s this weekend. Three brothers. Having made the mistake of hearing the names
Although the modern home is ideologically
others called them made not the knife sharper
constructed as independent and disconnected
but the cut deeper. Knowing what is to be next is
from natural processes, its function is heavily
sometimes not the advantage we hope it to be.
dependent upon its material connections to these very processes which are mediated through a series
Twenty seven years of disconnection from my
of networks and social power relations. (Kaika, 2004,
hum[animal]. Leaning over him, I realise my own
p. 275)
ecological boredom. I meet you not with shame; my ecology, but only guilt in hoping to resurrect the
I shout this truth of modern human[imal]s. We
forests in which we once roamed. I celebrate you
(a reluctant membership) have constructed a sly
and your return to soil, as I know one day I shall
independence and disconnected ourselves from
return and meet you there.
natural processes. We have removed ourselves from the ecosystems that have governed evolution,
and one bad day
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excitement and ecology. Our function however
the morning, eyes on the garden, a step towards
remains heavily dependent upon material
nourishment, internal and external.
connections to these very processes which are removed vby a sweeping, brushing Victorian ideal of
Everyone is nourished and augmented by the other.
the modern city.
(Cixous and Jenson, 1991, p. 42)
An unexpected consequence of our drive to the
One can emerge from death. I believe, only with an
pristine in city design, where it has been achieved, is
irrepressible burst of laughter. (Cixous and Jenson,
a strange creeping level of boredom, numbness, and
1991, p. 41)
a pathology of disconnectedness. (Monbiot, 2013, p. 77)
We shared laughter and nourishment. A christmas feeling, but more. They first meal in my twenty seven
Reconnect.
years of never going hungry that I had a natural relationship with.
I stare down the feral frontiers. The stewardship, no, celebration of productive ecosystems in
I fed, raised, housed, held, cut, cleaned and ate.
urban environments. The urban shepherd. The
Nourished and augmented. Changed. I do not revel
beginnings of a trans-species urban theory that
in my omnivorous feeling, nor in the knowledge of
would welcome human and hum[animals] onto the
gender marking an early exit for a hum[animal] I
same plane. I worked for a year to bring chickens
worked so hard to know. However it took one foot
into my backyard. A childhood memory of “blacky
from the pavement and placed it more comfortably
and ginger� an unclear number of generations of
into the forest.
two laying hens my of my childhood. Fresh eggs in
If you die, live. (Cixous and Jenson, 1991, p. 8)
Cixous, H. and Jenson, D. (1991). Coming to writing and other essays. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
change. hope. a way out.
when it all seems
The only struggle worth fighting for is a truly ecological struggle. Paul Virilio, Défense populaire et luttes écologiques Allow me to frame (triangulate rather) my response between three complementary competitive thoughts – CHANGE. HOPE. A WAY OUT. 1. CHANGE - Highly sensitive to fluctuations, current societal conditions can be viewed as threatening but also as signs of hope. In the context of global interdependencies, local and individual actions may have positive effects. Change is possible – although results may not always be foreseen. (Conley, 1993, p. 86) 2. HOPE – The environmental movement up until now has been necessarily reactive. We have been clear about what we don’t like. We need to show where hope is. Ecological restoration is a work of hope. (Monbiot, 2013, p.152)
s like too much...
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3. A WAY OUT - Are there…sorties (ways out) of
Moving next to hope (not in a straight line), we must
the dilemma, or are we the powerless witnesses
become aware that we have become reactive to
who can only utter cries of rage at every bit of
previous events, we are necessarily reactive before
news: demographic explosion, threats to species,
we become proactive.
the disappearing ozone layer, worldwide famines. (Conley, 1993, p.80) - sorties is a theoretical term
If we settle then to sorties – ways out (beware this
attributed to Cixous.
is the easiest place to become lost) it is unclear whether we are at the end of the triangle or the start
You may begin your thinking at any point of the
again. Both are equally correct in their fault.
triangle, or any place in-between. Conley reminds us that we should “admit that human societies
Take from this triangle a way finding device not a
are in constant change, and that every state of
map. The tool is knowing where you are and where
“being” is but the effect of a temporary historical
you can move to, both reactively and proactively.
configuration, we can no longer think the subject, singular or collective, in a vacuum. (Conley, 1993,
Become, be, and become again.
p.78)”. Therefore I suppose it does not matter where you start, as there is no start and no end. This triangle does not have straight lines. It is a dynamic, bewildering triangle, an invisible framework of being and becoming, offering comfort but not rest. Change provides no destination.
Verena Andermatt Conley, ‘Eco-Subjects’ in Verena Andermatt Conley, ed. Rethinking Technologies, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993, pp. 77-91.
conclusion
My greatest discoveries can be found in a deeper appreciation for the terms below. These terms have helped me form my thoughts and explorations across academic and personal endeavours. I have a greater appreciation for the role of “others� in urban environments.
1. Anthropocentrism
Human-centered value system, humans have prime importance.
2. Biocentrism
Value perspective that holds all life as sacrosanct.
3. Biosphere/Ecosphere
The sum total of all life on Earth.
4. Ecofeminism
A range of theoretical and activist positions which connect the oppression of women with the destruction of nature.
5. Ecological Restoration
The repair of degraded habitats to restore ecological functionality.
6. Environmental Justice
Inequitable exposure to environmental harm and/or inequitable access to environmental benefits.
7. Habitat Fragmentation
The breakup of habitats through land-use change.
8. Political Ecology
Perspective that links environmental degradation with economic inequity, social marginality, and vulnerability.
9. Synergy
An additional force or energy produced by working together.
10. Trans-Species Urban Theory
Perspective incorporating animals and plants in dynamics of urbanization.
11. Urban Shepherd
Holistic stewardship of productive ecological systems in urban environments.
12. Wildlife Corridor
Pathways allowing animals to move between segregated habitat patches.
13. ZoĂśpolis
A city of people and animals coexisting in urban life spaces to their mutual benefit.
addendum
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step 2. Reinvent the wheel
10 advices for a pleasant journey
Read Vs. Unread
October 9, 2013
October 1, 2013
November 20, 2013
Anders Isacson
Gerd Holgersson
Boya Guo
•
•
•
A friend of mine is writing a thesis called
I believe in ignorance before empathy –
If you write a language which cannot be
“reinventing the wheel”. She is investigating the
thoroughly conscious ignorance. Schrodinger
understood, does it continue to be a language?
power of “lying” - or to put it more politely - the
said “in an honest search for knowledge you
What happens to the handwriting of the last
power of saying things which are not yet true
quite often have to abide by ignorance for an
speaker of each language before they pass? The
- in writing policy and making positive change
indefinite period”. If we (human/non human,
artist Xu Bing reminded me of a book called
in society. I suppose we just have to remember
organic/inorganic) can first recognise our
codex seraphinianus by Italian artist, architect,
that we are not making a better wheel. The old
ignorance, secondly use our knowledge to make
and industrial designer Luigi Serafini. The book
wheel has gotten unstable, now there will be a
higher quality ignorance, then we can move
describes a world that does not exist and is
possibly rough transfer period to the new wheel.
onto empathy.
written in a language that no one can read.
Roll on. [no title]
Bad Tension
Gossip as a strategy of forming subject
November 19, 2013
October 16, 2013
December 4, 2013
Sofia Wollert Olsson
Johanne Killi
Döne Delibas
•
•
•
I am interested in what defines some words
You made me think of a song: - “A Scale, A Mirror And Those Indifferent Clocks” – by Bright eyes.
I like wrinkles, creases and folds. I often wonder of the value of ironing...it seems an unnecessary
as “gossip” and what is required to turn this
“And language just happened. It was never planned.
task for it does not make the shirt feel better on
“gossip” into identity, identity to narrative and
And it’s inadequate to describe where I am in the
my back (except for that fleeting moment when
narrative into culture?
room of my house where the light’s never been
it is still warm from the iron). You iron not for
waiting for this day to end.”
yourself, but for others.
a collection of feminist design power tools
four hundred & twenty-five elephants 1. premature gratification is about both-and, not either/or. 2. including the excluded. 3. universality is in the details. 4. record minutely what is, while remaining unworried by what should be.
3. So I’ll take all your books. But the cathedrals I’ll leave behind. (Cixous and Jenson, 1991, p. 12) 4. fall asleep a mouse and wake up an eagle! (Cixous and Jenson, 1991, p. 11) 5. Let yourself go! Let go of everything! Lose
the shattered, the multiple I, that you will be still further on, and emerge from one self, shed the old body, shake off the Law. Let if fall with all its weight, and you, take off, don’t turn back: it is not worth it, there’s nothing behind you,
everything! Take to the air. Take to the open sea.
everything is yet to come. (Cixous and Jenson,
Take to letters. Listen: nothing is found. Nothing
1991, p. 40)
is lost. Everything remains to be sought. Go,
6. Live! Risk: those who risk nothing gain nothing,
There’s always something deeper underground.
fly, swim, bound, descend, cross, love the
risk and you no longer risk anything. (Cixous
1. shift from ‘practices of the other’, to practising
unknown, love the uncertain, love what has
and Jenson, 1991, p. 41)
‘otherhow’ 2. curate and create meaning, instead of planning and imposing
not yet been seen, love no one, whom you are, whom you will ever be, leave yourself, shrug
7. everyone is nourished and augmented by the other. (Cixous and Jenson, 1991, p. 42)
off the old lies, dare what you don’t dare, it is
3. address space, not architecture
there that you will take pleasure, never make
Change. Hope. A way out.
4. hi/stories + herstories
your here anywhere but there, and rejoice in
1. human subjects, always in movement and
5. situate yourself. know where you stand.
the terror, follow it where you’re afraid to go,
transformation, have to think themselves in a
6. if it does not exist, ‘alteritally’ invent it
go ahead, take the plunge, you’re on the right
world of becoming. (Conley, 1993, p. 78)
trail! Listen: you owe nothing to the past, you
2. do(es) not advocate power reversals, but
hum[an.imal] urb[an.imal]
owe nothing to the law. Gain your freedom: get
devise(s) ways of letting both others (humans)
1. :what you can’t have, what you can’t touch,
rid of everything, vomit up everything, do you
and other “things” (organic and inorganic)
smell, caress, you should at least try to see
hear me? All of it! Give up your goods. Done?
merely be. (Conley, 1993, p. 79)
(Cixous and Jenson, 1991, p. 4)
Don’t keep anything; whatever you value, give
2. If you die, live. (Cixous and Jenson, 1991, p. 8)
it up. Are you with me? Seach yourself, seek out
3. be in tune with the world, (to) hear the language of things. (Conley, 1993, p. 79)
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1. DO NOT – obey uncritically a repressive system
from technological reductions onto grids,
of signs that makes up a symbolic order – you
it does preserve linguistic diversity. It also
(we) lose our effective contact with the world.
questions the pseudo-objectivity of any truth.
(Conley, 1993, p. 79)
(Conley, 1993, p. 88)
2. The first step toward an ecological rapport is
5. the disappearance of the world’s diversity, its
“the necessary move of letting the world be or
capacity to become, and its sensuous opacity
of approaching them with tact. (Conley, 1993,
– of legends and narratives – go hand in hand
p. 79)
with the wanton cutting of bushes and trees.
3. Highly sensitive to fluctuations, current societal conditions can be viewed as threatening but
(Conley, 1993, p. 89) 6. the environmental movement up until now has
also as signs of hope. In the context of global
been necessarily reactive. We have been clear
interdependencies, local and individual actions
about what we don’t like. We need to show
may have positive effects. Change is possible –
where hope is. Ecological restoration is a work
although results may not always be foreseen.
of hope. (Monbiot, 2013, p.152)
But societies are changing in a physical world that has been rehistoricized. In other words, at any social level – whether in Manhattan, the suburbs of Paris, or in the rain forests of Surinam – “nature” has reappeared and is also in becoming. (Conley, 1993, p. 86) 4. Storytelling – “through voice, storytelling brings the body, or one’s own story, into History. And insofar as it reopens onto space in time, away
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