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Revealing Work. Interrogating Artifacts to (Re)View Histories of Feminist Architectural Practice

Boys, J; Dwyer, J; (2017) Revealing Work. Interrogating Artifacts to (Re)View Histories of Feminist Architectural Practice. Architecture and Culture , 5 (3) pp. 487-504. 10.1080/20507828.2017.1367199. Green open access

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Abstract

Contemporary investigations of feminist practices in architecture from the near past rely upon scant and therefore precious sources. Many unique physical artifacts are lying, unarchived, in box files and plan chests or fading on bookshelves, and their meanings and associations remain caught in the era in which they were made. We have selected artifacts from 1970s and 80s feminist spatial practice in London that we, with others, were instrumental in creating, to re-examine, and to invite further commentaries. Through contextualizing them in their period–and interrogating through our own memories–we became particularly concerned to reappraise what counts as work; the work of actual doing; the work of finding ways to generate social change; the experiences of that work as embodied; and the work that the artifact itself does–how, through what happens to it in the world, it exceeds or alters what had been intended.

Type: Article
Title: Revealing Work. Interrogating Artifacts to (Re)View Histories of Feminist Architectural Practice
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/20507828.2017.1367199
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2017.1367199
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: feminism, feminist architecture, artifacts, interpretation, work, materiality
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt > Bartlett Real Estate Institute
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089391
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