Preservation: Architecture, Nature and Politics is the Spring 2021 iteration of the so-called “urban futures” module, a research studio in the Estonian Academy of Arts’s graduate program in urban studies. The premise of the module is to rethink how urban professionals influence social change. We depart from the predominant, solutionist approach in urban studies as a discipline to critically examine the role of prevalent norms, values and imaginaries, along with underpinning relations of power, in shaping spatial practices such as preservation.
Preservation: Architecture, Nature and Politics was tutored by Maroš Krivý, Kaija-Luisa Kurik and Sean Tyler. The guest critics in the studio were Ewa Effiom (Manchester School of Architecture) and Jonas Žukauskas (Neringa Forest Residency).
The core readings in the studio were:
Preservation: Architecture, Nature and Politics was tutored by Maroš Krivý, Kaija-Luisa Kurik and Sean Tyler. The guest critics in the studio were Ewa Effiom (Manchester School of Architecture) and Jonas Žukauskas (Neringa Forest Residency).
The core readings in the studio were:
- Valentina Rozas-Krause, “Memorials and the Cult of Apology,” e-flux, 30 Sep 2020, https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/monument/349760/memorials-and-the-cult-of-apology/
- Lucia Allais, Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century, pp. 1–31 (“Introduction: Monument Survival”) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).
- William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” Environmental History 1, 1 (1996): 7–28
- Cindi Katz, “Whose Nature, Whose Culture? Private Productions of Space and the “Preservation” of Nature,” in B. Braun and N. Castree (Eds.), Remaking Reality. Nature at the Millenium, pp. 45–62 (London: Routledge, 2005 [1998])