What does it mean for architecture to be a truly collaborative venture where plants and other species also exercise their agency? This would mean to make architecture receptive-physically, premised on creating spaces for accommodating multispecies; and intellectually, premised on becoming aware of the needs of more-than-humans. Design-based approaches whether technocratic or demonstrating a theoretical standpoint are fragmented today and demand a holistic approach.
Living Together positions itself in that fragmentation. The book is an inquiry into an architecture which allows multispecies alliances to take place. It brings materialist and ecological inquiries to architectural design, practice, and thinking; acknowledging a necessity to go beyond established architectural ideals of progress, monumentality, longevity, and permanence.
- A guide to ecological planning in architecture
- Cohabitation: architecture must take into account the non-human living space
- Inspiring illustrations
Sonal Mithal leitet das Forschungs-, Konservierungs- und Kunststudio People for Heritage Concern und ist Vorsitzende des Graduiertenprogramms für Konservierung an der CEPT University, Indien. Ihre Arbeit umfasst die Bereiche Architektur, feministische Ökologie, Queer Studies und Geschichte. Vor kurzem veröffentlichte sie A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and Colonial Archives: Lucknow Queerscapes (2024), Melding Matter (2021).
Akshar Gajjar ist Architekt und Forscher und arbeitet derzeit an der EPF Lausanne. Seine Forschung umfasst die Bereiche Architektur, Urbanismus, Queer Studies und Ökologie. Vor kurzem veröffentlichte er Embroidered Waterscapes: Unpacking Relationships through Artisanal Map-making (2024) und präsentierte seine Arbeit an der Jahreskonferenz der American Association of Geographers (2023).
