“If we begin by looking at our most vulnerable, passionate or empowering moments in life, what kind of architecture will we make then?�
Architectural Pulls of Desire and Passionate Pedagogy
"Vanity (Fair), conflict, dreams and drama on an ordinary day at The Beastlet… on the possibilities of dissidence in critical pedagogies"
Architecture and The Paradox of Dissidence 9th International Architectural Humanities Research Association Conference
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CONFLICT, DREAMS AND DRAMA ON AN ORDINARY DAY AT THE BEASTLET...
"Renovating RossiStories of anticipation in close encounters of the (un)desirable kind"
ON THE POSSIBILITIES OF DISSIDENCE
IN CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES
BRADY
BURROUGHS
CRITICAL STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURE School of Architecture and the Built Environment KTH Stockholm, Sweden COVER PHOTO: GUSTAV VRANG AS GIZELLE GAZELLE, CREATION BY SARA BROLUND DE CARVALHO
"I hate architecture... a feminist introduction in 50 points"
Architectural Pulls of Desire and OPEN HOUSE Meditations on lesbians who meditate on Lesvos On the role of spirituality in the negotiation of space, community building and the inhabitation of place.
"Meditations on lesbians who meditate on Lesvos: an exploration on the role of vulnerability, desire and empowerment in the inhabitation of lesbian space"
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Welcome to a guided tour! Wednesday, 27th March 2013 10.00-12.00 at Åsögatan 136 special thanks to: Malin Heyman and Marie-Louise Richards, Stefan Leijon and Peter Börjeson Zakharov at
photo: Tzeli Hadjidimitriou, Skala Eressos, Lesvos, September 2011
brady burroughs, 1 st International Conference on Contemporary Esotericism, Stockholms universitet, 120827 PhD Candidate, advisor: Katarina Bonnevier, Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH
"Dear Aldo, an aquatic feminist's Scientific Autobiography"
"Passionate Pedagogy: Hosting an ‘architectural conversation’… the act of pedagogical stewardship"
Passionate Pedagogy
“Collective mapping and contextualization within field of feminist architectural theory and research"
“The architects (all human animals) had a hard time thinking from positions other than their own… they either wouldn’t listen, or didn’t know how. It was as if their preconceptions about how one should be and should live got in the way. Do the human animals really live in this fantasy all the time? ...where everyone gets along, complacent in monogamous relationships, living perfect lives in perfect houses? We fight! We sleep around! We migrate! ”
Gizelle Gazelle Spokeswomanimal for The Beastlet
photo Tzeli Hadjidimitriou
Crouching Aphrodite underwater sculpture Skala Eressos, Lesvos, Greece
“Here is an instant, a body, an identity, an underwater cave. It is a pilgrimage, an ancestry, a ritual, a feeling, an introspection... a state of mind. I’ve become comfortable in my suit of marble- compressed fossils, life to stone. Even when the fish nibble at my thighs, I no longer feel it. My back is stiff, torso twisted, breasts are perfect, knees bent, arms severed and I have no head. I’ve forgotten what it was like to be whole. Dis(mis)placed, I am at home. At times, I long to break this pose, leave here. But I like it here. Here is familiar, safe… and alone(ly). ”
“All of the human animals on this boat are of the type that have two lumps hanging just above their stomach. Despite this, they seem to be able to swim well enough, although they use plastic containers with large tubes on their heads and a rubber prosthesis on their feet, since they have no gills or webbing either! They swim off in opposite directions when hunting, lounge aroundcackling away and are quite frankly not very skilled in the art of attracting a mate. FLooooOCKS are more efficient and secure for hunting and mating, too too too too TOO much distance between their bodies!� Lesbian seagull 2nd cove from the village Skala Eressos, Lesvos, Greece
“Now she’s standing there, hugging one of those women, kissing her on the shoulder and smiling at me. I don’t understand why they’re so insistent on their “women-only” space and all the talk of community building. We’re all a community, aren’t we? The Greek men in the kafeneias with their afternoon ouzo don’t make a fuss … I mean, the real reason most of them are there has to do with privilege, not gender or sexual preference. It costs money to get there- surfing on their iPhones, eating their omelettes and sipping their smoothies. Ok, so some of them do get involved in the local community, but they can always leave if things get really tough. Why does she want to be with them? ”
Osho sannyasin Afroz Meditation Center Skala Eressos, Lesvos, Greece
“Eh, scusa! Da tomaaytos, aava mia faaamilee. Capisci? She izza… little ‘pazza’, no? Craaazy! Boh! Nooo! I dunnow, ma.. sii, dissa architetta, she izza DEEEFFERENT! Butta naiiise. She izza not a maaarried, noo chiiildren and wit olla da caatse? Olla da weeeman! She don’ta like Barilla pasta, capisci? You arre friende? YOU maaarried?!! Anda eeeverrry tinga, Greece! Greece! Greece! She izza craaazy for Greece!”
Anna, 80 year-old Catholic nun Bergamo, Italy
“Ok, so let me explain it like this, the pond is like an educational institution, and the food bags are like the imposed move toward standardization and fees, leading to a system where education just feeds the market and has lost its intentions of ‘higher learning’, critical thinking and knowledge production. You could call it a ‘Cognitive Capitalist Take-Over’. Or in pond terms, giving the fish and ducks the same commercially processed artificial diet, day in and day out, Digestive Capitalist Take-Over. ”
Brooke Bayoude 10 year-old daughter of academics Yorkshire, UK
“In its simplicity, the use of space in the unit is unreconciled, in a state of “To be or not to be?,” if you will, to allow for the ‘unforseeable’ in life. The controlled order of the solemn pillars of the small portico, aligned with all of the adjoining porticos of neighboring units, that once engendered a grand dramatic effect and spoke of permanence and stability, comparable to the uncontested lineage that my work and that of my colleagues belongs to, has now become a chaotic service space where practically anything (and anyone) is allowed!” William Shakespeare World renowned author Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
“It’s a shame that I was not there in your 20% seminar; a theater of sorts indeed. The fact of persuading the participants to ‘make a choice’, through ‘separatism as a design tool’ is at the end making a political statement; both from your side as a chimera of architect/researcher/feminist/ your-stories etc., and also on the participants’ side that are offered a sort of autonomy.”
Anonymous PhD candidate UMA, Sweden
“The corridor was a strip of space that seemed surrounded and gripped by private acts, unforseeable occasions, love affairs, repentances. …And especially by images which do not leave their imprint on film but which accumulate in things. For this reason, the interior is important: one must always imagine the effect produced by a person who leaves a room unexpectedly. One asks oneself whether there are adjoining rooms and similar questions, which ultimately mingle with considerations about protection against dampness, water levels, roofs, and finally, the soundness of the construction.” - A Scientific Autobiography Aldo Rossi Architect/Ghost Milan, Italy
Swedish-American PhD student KTH, Sweden
“Politically, it’s a very conscious strategic decision. I don’t want to make work that only interests other feminist scholars, or those who already agree with me, and is largely discounted by the very norm I aim to disrupt. Although my primary focus is pedagogical, with an aim to make work that is an inspiring resource to architecture students and teachers, if I make work that excludes the ‘norm’ (i.e. old, straight ‘white’ guys), then it makes it easy for them to ignore. I figure that you’re someone they can relate to, whether they love you or hate you, there is bound to be an opinion, and therefore, an interest. In a way, it’s an act of invitation to those I am most critical towards. Besides, a little resistance isn’t necessarily a bad thing! That’s the whole point of an ‘occupation’, isn’t it?”
“Does she have any idea what kind of trouble she is causing? Not only is the renovation illegal, but the three follies she has installed in the garden have become like stones cast into a still body of water, with the rippled effects radiating outward and overlapping. They are like tiny disruptions that set a whole string of events in motion, and I’ve experienced first-hand how the mere presence of this project get’s under people’s skin. I know her intentions are acts of reparation and ultimately grounded in a pedagogical desire to change the way architects think about space and the way architects think about themselves. But I also know that she has an inclination for drama and likes to break the rules, a.k.a. problematic relation to authority! She always manages to find ways to undermine power and dives in ‘head-first’. This will surely get her into trouble one day!”
Anonymous PhD candidate SINT-LUCAS, Belgium
brady burroughs, October 2013 KTH, Stockholm, Critical Studies Communications, ResArc PhD Course, UMA