Course:
ARCH 403: spatial theories from/with the Caribbean
T/R: 11:00am - 12:20pm
At the Architecture Building, RM 205
Description:
THE CARIBBEAN has long been rendered peripheral in architectural history and theory. This seminar instead approaches it as an affective ground for rethinking space altogether. Through atmospheric, archipelagic [Glissant], embodied [Wynter], and subaltern [Fanon, Césaire] modes of inquiry, we will explore spatial theories from/with the Caribbean, refusing extraction in favor of relational, situated, and sensorial ways of knowing. We will trace how concepts such as opacity [Glissant], camouflage [Suzanne Césaire], survival, and the mangrove [rhizophora] unsettle colonial spatial orders and open new imaginaries for living and building otherwise.
Prof. Yazmín M Crespo Claudio
