Designing and Building the Survival Lounge
The Survival Lounge project was a series of seminars focusing on the design, construction, and inhabitation of an intersectional feminist Survival Lounge inspired by Sara Ahmed’s book ‘Living a Feminist Life’. It is a Survival Lounge dedicated to voices of the unheard.
I was lucky to be a part of both the design and construction seminars under the nurturing supervision of Prof. Sarah Rivière, Prof. Hermann Schlimme, and Helle Schröder. The publications below include my individual and group works in the seminar.
FG Bau- und Stadtbaugeschichte
Institute for Architecture, TU Berlin
WS 20/21 - SS 21
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The first part of the seminar focuses on various inputs culminating in the chosen Survival Lounge design. It also gives an insight into the practical experience of an intersectional feminist design process.
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The second part of the seminar concerns the participative construction of the Lounge. It tells the story of how the design of the Survival Lounge, which had been created during the digital summer semester of 2020, was transmitted to a new group of people who worked collectively on the construction phase of the Lounge in the workshops of the TU Berlin. Furthermore, it focuses on the physical group experience of intersectional feminist discourse throughout this construction process.
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