Rethinking material relations through feminist architectural practice

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, issue 14

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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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Koivisto, E 2025, 'Rethinking material relations through feminist architectural practice', VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, no. 14. https://doi.org/10.22501/vis.3240224