Category: 02_Discussions

Wildness – Complexity, Contradiction and Failure

Time is borrowed. It changes everything. Faces. Relationships. Neighbourhoods. There are not many like me left. And I wonder, what will become of me? How can I explain my legacy? (Movie […]

Review – Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Research on Woman Architechts

On this first day of the new semester, I wanted to come back on a lecture that took place, mostly unnoticed, on the Hönggerberg campus on November 27th, as announced […]

Discussion: “(Dis)comfort and Norms”

Thoughts about the article “(Dis)comfort and Norms” by Sara Ahmed Heteronomativity  “Heterosexuality as a script for an ideal life” states Sara Ahmed at the beginning of her article. Hence, heteronormativity […]

Discussion: Texts by Beatriz Colomina and Paul Preciado

Thoughts about the texts “The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism” by Beatriz Colomina and “Pornotopia or the Architecture of Playboy” by Paul (Beatriz) Preciado. Loos and Materiality – As Loos is an […]

Discussion: Texts by Judith Butler and Michael Foucault

Misty and Jimmy Poulette in the Taxi, NYC, 1991, Nan Goldin > Butler arguments, that there is a natural difference between the two sexes. Gender on the other hand operates […]