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Rethinking material relations through feminist architectural practice (2025)

Elina Vilhelmiina Koivisto

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This practice-led research exposition by architect-researcher Elina Koivisto explores how conducting architectural practice through the framework of feminist spatial practice can provide possibilities for un-learning harmful habits and reaching towards uncertain speculative futures. The case study project Kudos – Library for Material Relations realized in Espoo, Finland as a co-creative process between human and non-human participants, provided a lens through which the current material and social relations in architecture-making were challenged, applying the conceptual thinking of posthuman feminist thoughts on care and interconnectivity. Reflecting on the project, architecture is seen as a tool for feminist becomings rather than as a producer of mere artefacts, and meaning and significance are found in the process of its making.

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Denna praktikbaserade exposition av arkitektforskaren Elina Koivisto undersöker hur arkitekturpraktik, när den bedrivs inom ramen för feministisk rumslig praktik, kan öppna möjligheter att avlära skadliga vanor och närma sig osäkra, spekulativa framtider. Fallstudieprojektet Kudos – Library for Material Relations, som genomfördes i Esbo, Finland, som en samskapande process mellan mänskliga och icke-mänskliga deltagare, fungerade som en lins genom vilken rådande materiella och sociala relationer inom arkitekturskapandet utmanades. Genom att tillämpa posthumanistiskt feministiska perspektiv på omsorg och interkonnektivitet framträder arkitektur här som ett verktyg för feministiska blivanden snarare än som en producent av enbart artefakter, där mening och betydelse uppstår i själva skapandeprocessen.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsPractice-led research, architecture, feminist spatial practice, posthuman feminism, relations, care, bodily knowledge, unlearning, co-creation, more-than-human, mycelium, clay
date29/11/2024
published21/10/2025
last modified21/10/2025
statuspublished
affiliationAalto University
copyrightElina Koivisto
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3240224/3437365
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/vis.3240224
published inVIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue14. VIS Issue 14


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