Critical Knowledge(s). Engaging with race, politics, and crip architectural research approaches critical theory as both an operative framework for analysis and a fundamental tool for spatial and architectural research. The aim of the course is to engage with research in architecture through the lens of critical race studies, queer theory, critical disability studies, and more-than-human ecologies, pushing the boundaries of the discipline towards an active engagement with pressing contemporary issues. Invited speakers are leading researchers, theorists, practitioners, and artists that navigate these intersecting fields. Through their contributions, the course aims to foster a dialogue at the crossroads of several critical knowledge(s), opening new paths for architectural research.

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The course articulates as a series of interventions by leading researchers, theorists, practitioners, and artists. All the contributors are practitioners and academic, and this is reflected in their understanding of the intersections of the issues at stake. Through roundtables, students will have the opportunity to engage with the various contributions and engage in open-ended dialogues with the invited speakers. Guest lectures: - Malcom Ferdinand is an environmental engineer from University College London and doctor in political philosophy from Université Paris Diderot. He is now a researcher at the CNRS (IRISSO/University Paris Dauphine). At the crossroad of political philosophy, postcolonial theory and political ecology, his research focuses on the Black Atlantic and particularly the Caribbean. He explores the relations between current ecological crises and the colonial history of modernity. He recently published a book based on his PhD dissertation entitled A Decolonial Ecology: Thinking of Ecology from the Caribbean World. -Shela Sheikh is senior lecturer in International Politics at the University of London Institute, Paris. She is committed to practices of editing and publishing and teaches and researches across the fields of post/decolonial cultural studies, environmental humanities, and international politics. She was Research Associate and Publications Coordinator with the ERC-funded, multi-disciplinary research agency Forensic Architecture. She is a board member of the NGO Border Forensics. -Imani Jacqueline Brown is an artist, activist, writer, and architectural researcher from New Orleans, based between London and New Orleans. She is currently a fellow with Monument Lab, a doctoral candidate in the School of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London, a research fellow with Forensic Architecture, and a member of the Rise St. James Louisiana Historic Committee. -Ola Hassanain is an artist, architect, and mentor of the Prince Claus Building Beyond Mentorship. She works between Amsterdam and Khartoum, focusing on developing spatial literacy through the idea of ‘space as discourse’, an expanded notion of space that encompasses a scavenging mode of analysis and the re-presentation of space. She holds a BAK fellowship 2017-2018, and taught at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Sandberg Institute, and others. -Marvi Mazhar is an architect and researcher. Her practice combines visual culture, spatial advocacy and interventions. Recently completed her Masters (MA RA) at Goldsmiths, University of London (2021) and in 2022 started teaching at Indus Valley School of Architecture (IVSAA) M.Phil Program, Pedagogies of Place. Her present ongoing research focuses upon the representation and production of Karachi’s Urban Coastal Periphery, and its Ecology. -Jordan Whitewood-Neal is an architectural researcher and designer interested in the relationship between architecture and disability, as well as its history in architectural education. He is currently editor at The Avery Review of GSAPP Columbia University, New York. He holds a Masters degree in Architecture with the University of Brighton (UK), and he was recently awarded a Teaching Development Fellowship at the London School of Architecture.

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