hD P 50% INAR SEM
Architectural FLIRT AID
Original work by: Brady Burroughs, PhD Candidate Photagraphy: H책kan Lindquist Curator; Marie-Louise Richards www.flirtaid.blogspot.se Marie-Louise Richards
PhD 50% INAR SEM
Architectural FLIRT AID
RE-CONSTRUCTION
Through a 'method of opportunities’ and intentional post-justification, Brady Burrougs tell stories while formulating critical arguments to propose a series of ‘disruptions’ in how we think, make and position ourselves as architects, teachers, researchers, even humans, in relation to our power and privileges. With the help of feminist and queer theory, She use fictional provocation, humor and imagination in order to reveal our habits, shift our perceptions and raise ethical concerns in situations where we encounter the conflict, dreams and drama of the places we inhabit. However, rather than a deconstruction, she calls it a re-construction.
ARCHITECTURAL FLIRTATION
Her contribution to the discussion of critical architectural theory and pedagogies, lies within the act of clearing space through what she call architectural flirtations, where what is usually understood to be “the center” is continually displaced, by shifting it to places it usually is not. The intention cares not so much in the eventual outcome, although there is always an underlying interest in the direction of a more ethical and empowering shift, but rather in the constant redefining of what “the center” might include. Although the inherent vulnerability in this particular strategy, allows for unintended (and undesired) failures, the uncertainty also opens up for the displacement of assumptions and habits lurking in the practices of long-standing institutions and professions.
CRITICAL FICTIONS
One of Burroughs current main research questions is “ If we begin with the most vulnerable, passionate or empowering moments in life, what kind of architecture will we make then?� Most of the stories take place in spaces that are usually located 'outside' of the norm, whether a separatist bathing space, a sanctuary for mythical humanimal creatures or an occupied Aldo Rossi row house with ghosts, locating them in a place of possible political resistance to assumptions of gender and sexuality, anthropocentric oppression and general disregard for the natural world or simply the discrimination and conformism of a profession. In a broader sense, the methods of her practice aim to question traditional forms of knowledge production and research.
hD P 50% INAR SEM
ARCH. FLIRT AID COURSE
This 50% PhD seminar is set up as the fictional location of “The Flirt Aid Center�. The perfromative action of setting up the seminar as refrens to an First Aid course, encuraged the participants in active participation and interaction with the research work and its metods of architectural flirtations, re-construction and critical critical fictions. All participats recived an invitation describing the procedure of the seminar. Further information was found on the following website: www.flirtaid.blogspot.se
About the set-up: The FLIRT AID CENTER is a fully-equipped Flirt Aid training center. Our instructional staff, including head instructor and PhD candidate Brady Burroughs, training supervisors Katja Grillner and Katarina Bonnevier, and our special guest affiliate Katie Lloyd Thomas from our Newcastle branch, are able to meet your Flirt Aid training needs, both at lay rescuer and professional rescuer levels. Our Flirt Aid program will help give you the confidence needed to respond in an architectural emergency situation with skills that can save a life! We now offer a special ONE TIME ONLY intense training with our experienced Flirt Aid instructors, based on material toward an academic dissertation within Critical Studies in Architecture at KTH, Stockholm. Certification is available to those who successfully complete the 2-hour course.
On the website you'll find our training manual, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hate architecture <3: Architectural Flirtations, formerly known as critiqueâ&#x20AC;?- where you have axcess to all material concerning the course. Upon arrival, all participants will receive a protective training uniform and personal Flirt Aid Kit. As the course requires active participation, participants are encouraged to dress comfortable-chic, and be prepared to complete all tasks on site, with our expert guidance. Welcome! *Please note that certification is valid for a lifetime, and in most cases, effects of our courses are irreversible