Tweeddale, Anna (2021) Diffracting construction: A praxis of attentiveness to situated material entanglements of architecture and construction. PhD thesis, RMIT University, Australia.
Abstract
Contemporary Western architecture - through its complex relationship with construction - is entangled in material practices that compromise the flourishing of other living beings and life-worlds. If architects and the discipline of architecture are to take on more material response-ability and influence the transformation of industrialised construction, we need to be more attentive to the granularity and specificity of situated material entanglements. This research has sought to generate attentiveness to material entanglements through the development of a diffractive architectural research praxis.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Thesis advisor: | Douglas, Mick; Ednie-Brown, Pia; Hamilton, Olivia and Church, Kate |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | construction; diffraction; entanglement; material feminism |
| Index terms: | architect, transformation, industrialized construction, praxis |
| Subjects: | construction type, business, profession, reflexivity |
| Topics: | Construction Technology, Roles and Professions, Business Strategy, Research Practice |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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