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07.2024 Workshop by Anna Boyksen Fellow Nathalie Bredella with Andrea Reichenberger (TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, History of Technology), Rudolf Seising (Deutsches Museum), in connection with Grayson Bailey („Feminist Craft“ Seminar), supported by Tabitha Goricki-Eickel and  Simon Rötsch. Visit Program

Evolving digital ecologies promise to situate technologies, software systems and mixed actors within new epistemological approaches. Locating digital production processes within feminist labour histories, this workshop will interrogate the narratives which surround computation, the relationships between craft and digital production, and the subsequent interconnections between the human and the machine. In looking at histories of software systems as craft archaeologies, we are interested in the hybrid modes of computation and construction, as well as in the methods of writing these situated histories.

Using a wide set of methodologies (oral history, media archaeology, technical re-enactment, archival research), we aim to bring together historical and theoretical investigations and to bridge the gap between the history of craft, computer science and artificial intelligence (AI). The questions that immediately arise are both concrete and abstract: What tensions have arisen around the automation of craft processes and mechanized calculation procedures? In what ways is the emphasis on productivity entangled with marginalization? How can we capture (situate) industrial and digital practices across disciplines? And what role do theories of contextual knowledge in a feminist framework play in the realm of diversity and epistemic (in)justice? Bringing together perspectives from architecture and technology studies, this workshop will highlight how technical, social, and societal elements interweave, investigating the manner in which material processes form communities.

11.2023 Architektur für Alle?! Emanzipatorische Bewegungen in Planung und Raum

Vortrag und Workshop von  Insa Meyer, Céline Schmidt-Hamburger, Christian v. Wissel

Mit der Ausstellung Architektur für Alle?! Emanzipatorische Bewegungen in Planung und Raum widmete sich das b.zb einer kritischen Bestandsaufnahme der Situation von Frauen im Feld der Architektur in Bremen von 1945 bis heute. Dies geschah auf zwei, miteinander verwobenen Ebene der Betrachtung: zum einen mit Blick auf die Sichtbarkeit und Gleichstellung von Frauen im beruflichen Tätigkeitsfeld der Architektur und zum anderen mit Blick auf die anhaltende Situation ungleicher Teilhabe an, und Zugangsbedingungen zu, öffentlichen Räumen und den Räumen unserer Gesellschaft im Allgemeinen. 

Kuratiert von: Insa Meyer, Frederieke Schons, Céline Schmidt-Hamburger, Jörn Tore Schaper, Christian v. Wissel, Sophia Wolfrat und Sophie Krone.

Begleitend zur Ausstellung wurde als Band 19 der b.zb-Schriftenreihe der gleichnamige Katalog im Bremer Schünemann Verlag veröffentlicht (ISBN 978-3-7961-1169-3). 

06.2024 As a part of the Parity Jour Fixe No. 32 at TU-München, Grayson Bailey, Nathalie Bredella and Jonah Marrs (Base Digitale, Beaux-Arts Paris) presented works related to technologies, craft and practice. In his lecture "Prepared Instruments", Marrs discussed artistic experimentation with media technology in the 1960s and 1970s, along with his own video synthesis devices in the lineage of prepared instruments. Afterwards, there was a conversation with the Craft Archaeologies (LUH) and Feminist Craft (TUM) seminars on traditions of craftsmanship in the context of computer-based practices, which explored methodological approaches that address the shaping of technological knowledge at the interstices of theoretical discourse and material practices, and reflect on methods of feminist practices in research and teaching.

10.2023 Prof. Dr. Nathalie Bredella was named as the Anna Boyksen fellow in the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at TU München (Link). As a part of a two-year fellowship, Prof. Dr. Bredella will lead the newly created focus group Feminism and Digital Culture in Architecture. 

In order to encourage a critical engagement with the history of the digital in architecture, the Feminism and Digital Cultures in Architecture Focus Group wants to explore methods of feminist practices in research and teaching. This focus group will bring together the chairs of Theory and History of Architecture, Art and Design, of Architectural Informatics, Urban Design, Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design, Digital Fabrication, as well as the Chair of History of Architecture and Curatorial Practice, in order to explore methods of writing history in the context of digital cultures. Who have been the protagonists in the development of digital practices and how are they situated within local knowledge structures and their social, economic and political contexts? What roles do activism, oral history, and reenactment play in understanding digital cultures? These are among the questions that the Focus Group will address as it explores methodologies and events which have not previously been included in architectural history. By focusing on the history of technology together with an international network of scholars, we will engage with situated precedents of digital practices and how they relate to contemporary discourse.

05.2024 Nathalie Bredella and Grayson Bailey presented their paper "Computational mapping techniques und knowledge cultures within Landscape, Design and Planning” at the DESIGNSHS Workshop Writing the History of the Computer Visualizations in the Sciences: Production, Uses, Circulation (1940-1990) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.

06.2023 ist Utopia Computer : The "new" in Architecture? erschienen, herausgegeben von Nathalie Bredella, Frederike Lausch und Chris Dähne. Die Publikation thematisiert die Euphorie und die Erwartungen, die mit der Einführung des Computers in der Architektur im frühen digitalen Zeitalter verbunden sind. Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Grayson Bailey „Pre-Requisites for Self Organization," Hélène Frichot „A Dirty Theory for a New Materialism: From Gilles Deleuze to Jennifer Bloomer” sowie Interviews mit Frieder Nake, Kurd Alsleben und Antje Eske.

04.2024 Sophia Walk's article on Konrad Frey and Florian Beigel's Fischer House (link)was published in the series Building of the Month on the website The Twentieth Century Society.

Fischer House on Grundlsee in Austria’s Ausseerland from Konrad Frey and Florian Beigel was the first solar house in Austria, with construction beginning in 1972 and completing 1978. The fact that it has not worked perfectly stresses that environmental designs do not have to be totally successful in order for us to learn from them. 

06.2023 Grayson Baileys Artikel "Constructing the Anti-Architect" wurde in der 19. Ausgabe des Graz Architecture Magazine (GAM) veröffentlicht, die sich mit dem Thema "Professionalität" beschäftigte.