Abstract:
Drawing
on the recent publication of the pocket-book Dirty Theory: Troubling Architecture(AADR
2019), this lecture addresses dirt as both matter to be followed and concept to be grappled with when
coping with contemporary environmental crises. No locale rests outside the
infiltrations of dirt, and if you don’t see the dirt in front of you, it is
because it is being collected, held and managed elsewhere. Thinking with
dirt means thinking with local and global environment-worlds and re-orientating
our creative practices accordingly.
Part of the ESALA Frictions Public Lecture Series: https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/esala-public-lecture-series
Bio:
Architectural theorist and philosopher,
writer and critic, Hélène Frichot is Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, and
Director of the Bachelor of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and
Planning University of Melbourne, Australia. She is Guest Professor, and the
former Director of Critical Studies in Architecture, School of Architecture,
KTH Stockholm, Sweden. Her recent publications include Dirty Theory: Troubling
Architecture (AADR
2019), Creative
Ecologies: Theorizing the Practice of Architecture (Bloomsbury 2018), How to Make Yourself a Feminist
Design Power Tool (2016)