Weaving Another World into Being: Feminist Spatial Practices and Unruly Textiles
Isabelle Doucet
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In the framework of the Chronograms of Architecture exhibition, Isabelle Doucet will explore the possibilities of weaving as a resistant practice, by taking conceptual and historical understandings of weaving as a starting point, and by entering in a conversation with Bryony Roberts and Abriannah Aiken’s contribution to Chronograms of Architecture, as well as the digital “tapestry” offered by their Feminist Spatial Practices collective and web platform. Their work allows for creatively rethinking the resistant and inclusive potential not just of weaving but also of diagrams and archives. In this talk Doucet asks what architecture can learn from such embodied forms of connecting, interacting, celebrating, and resisting. By drawing from both her own reflections on weaving as a resistant practice and a conversation with Bryony Roberts and Abriannah Aiken, Isabelle Doucet approaches this talk itself as a way of weaving together voices, concepts, histories, and potentialities.
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Isabelle Doucet is a professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Sheffield, UK, with a longstanding interest in the societal and environmental responsibilities of architects and urban designers, studied through historical cases, theoretical revisitings, and methods of inquiry. Her current research centers on women in architecture after 1968, the portrayal of women in architecture as role models, and environmental storytelling. Her books include The Practice Turn in Architecture. Brussels after 1968 (2015) and Activism at Home. Architects Dwelling between Politics, Aesthetics, and Resistance, co-edited with Janina Gosseye (2021). With Hélène Frichot, she edited “Resist Reclaim Speculate: Situated Perspectives on Architecture and the City” for Architectural Theory Review (2018). Isabelle is a member of the steering committee of the Architecture Humanities Research Association (AHRA).
