Research • Queer Corporeality • Spatial Politics • Body and Space

This body of interdisciplinary and transmedial work examines architectural treaties and spatial politics from a queer-feminist perspective. Architectural and spatial design ideologies are interrogated through critical spatial practices, a research and artistic strategy pioneered by Dr. Jane Rendell. The works operate at a triple crossroads: between theory and practice, between public and private, and between art and architecture.

Central to the critical investigation is the male body, which for centuries served as the ideal model for proportions and design, as epitomized by the Renaissance’s Virtruvian Man, Le Corbusier’s Modular Man, and many others. This male-, hetero- and Western-centric anthropomorphism was foundational to modern Western architectural theory, directly linking the subject of the body, its gender and sex, to (queer) spatial politics. Many of the works rely of the arguments and thoughts from feminist architectural theorists like Diana Agrest, among others.