This series of seminars set out to reflect on the role of architecture and design as form of refusal in the manifold dimension offered by the reading of authors that, in different intellectual and epistemological traditions, could contribute to shed lights to the complicit, dissensual, alternative, distant, abolitionist reading of such a complex cultural term. Reflecting on the tension between refusal and abolition (of canon, of agency, of author, of site, to the limitless of architecture) the seminars wish to engage directly with the role of critical theory, if any, in the shaping, forming and norming architectural knowledge and design practice. The seminar series will be introduced one opening session featuring a discussion between Marco Trisciuoglio and Camillo Boano and a closing session with two guests in discussion with Camillo Boano. The format of the key seminars is based on three key readings (books). The cohort will be divided in three groups (a, b and c), and each will be assigned a specific reading. In the seminar the dialogue between readings and groups presenting the challenge, the reflections along with some collective reading will form the structure of each seminar. Small guide to readings and seminars: - Read the whole book suggested possibly and prepare to engage in reflections coming from your experience, your projects, your interests. - You can change the assigned book if you want and pick up another one. In the seminar, please justify the choice and engage. - If you do not find anything in the suggested readings, bring you own selection to the discussion. - Exchange is everything, the success of the seminar is made by participants’ engagement with the readings and with each other’s. - Explore and connect the biography and bibliography of the author beyond the selected text if time allows. - Plan to read also the suggested general readings as complementary but in a rhythm that you feel like beyond seminar’s dates. - Ask directly: why and how this could be useful to think architecture? What’s possible design learning? - What spatial strategies could this inform? - Critical to what? - Do not expect the answers to those question coming directly from the readings. Maybe do not expect answers at all, rather more questions. - Do not expect tutors know all, read all. To learn effectively is to unlearn first. Logistics: all sessions will be face to face but in some cases, zoom can be used to host virtual meetings.

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Opening dialogue Discussion Boano and Trisciuoglio Seminar 1: a. Butler, J., (2022) What World is this? A Pandemic Phenomenology, Columbia University Press, NY. b. Ingold, T., (2022) Imagining for real. Essays on Creation, Attention and Correspondence. Routledge, London. c. Povinelli, E., (2021) Between Gaia and Ground. Four Axioms of Existence and the ancestral catastrophe of late liberalism. Duke University Press, Durham. Seminar 2: a. Kotef, H., (2020) The Colonising self: or Home and Homeless in Israel/Palestine, Duke University Press, Durham. b. Gordon A.F. (2008) Ghostly Matters. Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. c. Puhar, J.K (2017) The Right to Maim. Debility, Capacity, Disability, Duke University Press, Durham. Seminar 3: a. Mol, A., (2002) The body multiple. Ontology in medical practice. Duke University Press, Durham. b. Fraser, N., (2022) Cannibal Capitalism. How our system is devouring Democracy, Care and the planet and What we can do about it. Verso, London. c. Neyrat, F (2019) The Unconstructable earth. An Ecology of Separation. Fordham University Press, NY. Seminar 4: a. Stoler, A.L (2022) Interior frontiers. Essays on the entrails of inequality. Oxford University Press, Oxford. b. Munoz, E.J., (2009) Cruising Utopia. The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York University Press, NY. c. Farrier D., (2009) Anthropocene Poetics. Deep time, sacrifice Zones and Extinction. Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis. Seminar 5 a. Campt, T.M, (2017) Listening to Images. Duke University Press, Durham. b. Mubirumusoke, M., (2022) Black Hospitality. A theoretical framework for Black Ethical Life, Palgrave Mcmillan. c. Sharpe C. (2016) In the Wake. On Blackness and Being. Duke University Press, Durham. Closing Seminar a. Halberstam, J., (2020) Wild Things. The disorder of Desire. Duke University Press, Durham. b. Wilson, J. (2021) Reality of Dreams. Post Neoliberal Utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Yale University Press. c. Azoulay, A.A. (2019) Potential history. Unlearning imperialism, London, Verso. Complementary reading (wish to introduce but not get a chance to, wising to read in case you want, feel free to read them too, change one of the above with any of this but justify and talk through this shift in the seminars, a tertium datum) • Erin Manning, Relatoonscapes. Movement, Art, Philosophy, MIT Press, 2009 • Harney, S, Moten, F. (2013) Undercommons. Fugitive Planning and Black Study. Minorcomposition, NY • Achille Mbembe, Out of the dark night. Columbia University Press, NY, 2021. • Isabelle Stengers, In catastrophic time. Resisting the coming barbarism. Open humanity press, 2015. • Liza Love, Intimacies of four continents. Duke University Press, 2015 • bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress. Education as a practice of freedom. Taylor and Francis, NY London, 1994. • Jenny Hodel. How to do nothing. Resisting the attention of economy. Melville House, London, 2019. • Kennan Ferguson, The big No, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2021. • Judith Halberstam, The Queer art of failure. Duke University Press, 2011. • Yuk Hui, Art and Cosmotechnics. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2021. • Mark Devenney, Towards and improper politics. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. • Donna Haraway. Staying with the trouble, Making kin in the Chutlucene. Duke University Press, 2016. • Ariella Aisha Azoulay, Potential history. Unlearning imperialism, London, Verso, 2019. • Elizabeth Povinelli. Geontologies. A requiem to Late Liberalism. Duke University Press, 2016. • Veena Das, (2015) Afflictions. Health, Disease, Poverty. Fordham University Press, NY. • Sa’ad Atshan (2020) Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique. Stanford University Press, Stanford. Critical theory discussion and readings (on which I base the overall discussion, the first dialogue and would offer to a more generic infrastructure for a meta-critique of critique) • Bernard E. Harcourt, Critique and Praxis. A critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values and Actions. CUP, NY, 2020 • Elizabeth Anker, Rita Felski, Critique and post Critique, Duke University Press, 2017. • Veena Das, Didier Fassin, Words and Worlds: a lexicon in dark times. Duke University Press, 2021 • Khayaat Fakier, Diana Mulinari, Nova Rathzel, Marxist-Feminist struggles theories and struggle today. Zed books, London, 2020. • Didier Fassin, Bernard E. Harcourt. A time for critique. Columbia University Press, 2019. • Rahel Jaeggi, Critique of forms of Lives. Harvard University Press, 2018. • Amy Allen, The end of Progress. Decolonizing the Normative foundation of critical theory. Columbia University Press, 2016. • Thompson, Michael, The domestication of Critical Theory. Rowman and Littlefields, London, 2016. • Razmig Keucheyan, The Left hemisphere. Mapping Critical Theory today. London Verso, 2013. Critical architecture and design (we should not do this, but as a starting reference) - Helen Frichot, Creative ecologies. Theorizing the practice of Architecture. London Bloomsbury, 2019. - Nadir Ladji, An architecture Manifesto. Critical reason and theories of a failed practice. London Routledge, 2019. - Douglas Spencer. Critique of Architecture: essays on Theory, Autonomy and Political Economy. Birkenhouser. Basel. 2017. - Tony Fry, Design and politics. Berg Oxford, 2011.

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