Seminar SoSe 2021Prof. Dr. Philipp Misselwitz, Dr. Christian Haid, Prof. Dr. Elke Beyer

Architectures of CareSpaces of Social Reproduction

Spatial arrangements of housing, care work and urban socialinfrastructure co-constitute the socio-spatial patterns of global supplychain capitalism. This seminar explores the spatial organization of care,social reproduction, and the division(s) of labour it embodies, asintegral aspects of industrial and post-industrial urbanization indifferent geographic contexts across the planet.Readings will introduce current debates on care economies and(spatial) divisions of labour in geography, social and architecturalstudies including critical queer and feminist approaches. In research-based analytical drawing or mapping projects, seminar participants areinvited to explore diverse architectures and urban spatial typologiesperforming as infrastructures for care work and social reproduction ondifferent scales, including trans-local practices and networks.

By questioning common spatial arrangements of production andreproduction in a relational, planetary perspective, as well asunderlying assumptions about race and gender, the course aims tocontribute to a critical assessment of dominant architectural and urbanplanning principles. We encourage research into architectural andurban interventions with the potential to offer alternatives, to counterand reprogram unsustainable and injust mechanisms of exploitation,and to set care and due diligence in primary focus.

Seminar projects will include:

- Explorative research of micro- and macro-geographies ofre:productive labour/care work- Analysis of specific typologies (architectures, urban spaces,networks) by means of architectural drawing, mapping and a finalwritten report- Development of visual and narrative formats (podcast) for a websitepresentationWeekly reading assignments are essential in preparation of thesessions and mandatory for all participants.

Course Information

Seminar, 6/3 ECTSM Arch, M Arch T, UD, SRP: WP

Teaching DayTuesdays, 11am-1pm

First Meeting20 April, 2021

ApplicationFirst assignment & Motivation letter

Downloads

Seminar Booklet

Contact

Prof. Dr. Elke Beyere.beyer@tu-berlin.de

Room A 065

T + 49 – 30 – 314 – 22224F + 49 – 30 – 314 – 21907

Christian Haidc.haid@tu-berlin.de

Raum A 621

T + 49 – 30 – 314 – 21906F + 49 – 30 – 314 – 21907

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