ARCHITECTURE FROM A NEW SIGHT AT PORTSMOUTH UNIVERSITY

Feminist approach to critical spatial practice by  Jane Rendell Seventh week (Friday, 8 November, 2024)   One of the first architects who brought up feminist debate in architecture was Jennifer Bloomer. Merging her drawings of female anatomy into architecture, she illustrated that the feminine can be a crucial part of architectural design. Discussions related to the correlation between gender and space emerged in 1990s. Feminist work from the 1990s by Bloomer and others mentions a gendered analysis of architecture, different forms of architectural representations in a space, and creating a space which challenges sexism and providing more equitably in spaces. Rendell describes the notion of practice in spatial practice and practice-led research as a process which happens not only through the design of buildings but also through the activities of using, occupying, and experiencing them, and through the various modes of writing and imagining used to describe, analyze, a...

  "MAKING DO": Uses and Tactics  Sixth week (Friday, 1 November, 2024)  CONSOLIDATION WEEK Consolidation week was a great opportunity for me to catch up on my studies. Also, I had to work on my artifact in workshop, completing it for the next week.   As our weekly reading, we students were supposed to read  "MAKING DO": Uses and Tactics by Jane Rendell.  The most important part of the text was the notion of  Strategies and tactics. Here is the summary of what I could gather by reading this text.   The type of operations and the role of spaces distinguishes  Strategies and tactics, that is, when operations take place, strategies produce or impose these spaces, while tactics can only use, manipulate the spaces. Instructions for use Thus operational schemas have to be clarified, which means  ways of operating, walking, reading, producing, speaking, etc,  like something that in other fields is shown for example in literature ways of w...