Unreasonsable Architecture
Through transdisciplinary methods, and through a framework of thinking and practice the course terms ‘Unreasonable Architecture’, the course aims to introduce a more expanded knowledge framework of meaning that includes indigenous systems and spatial technologies that sit outside the constraints of modern reason and economic legibility.
Modern architectural practice is continually losing agency in the trajectory, definition and application of spatial meaning and practice because its ideological framework is less about the production of space and more about the production of property and unjust power frameworks alongside the economics, law, geopolitics, philosophy and sociology disciplines. Its messy ongoing enmeshment with colonialism, capitalism, and industrialism (which relies on the cultural practices of ‘modern reason’ as a meaning totality, commodity fetishism, individuation, and humans as homo economicus) ensures the inevitability of crisis-laden spatial futures that exacerbate spatial injustice for all living beings and ecosystems.
Through transdisciplinary methods, and through a framework of thinking and practice the course terms ‘Unreasonable Architecture’, the course aims to introduce a more expanded knowledge framework of meaning that includes indigenous systems and spatial technologies that sit outside the constraints of modern reason and economic legibility.