Exploring Ecological Relationality Through Architectural Practice
Suomi, M., & Mäkelä, M. (2024). Exploring Ecological Relationality Through Architectural Practice. Research in Arts and Education, 2024(1), 218–233.
Abstract
This practice-led research article explores how post-humanist and eco-feminist perspectives of entanglement and relationality challenge human exceptionalism as a basis for making architecture in the process of the Alusta research pavilion. Multisensory spatial experience, material circulation and more-than-human temporalities are explored through building a temporary pavilion for multispecies encounters in an urban museum setting. Reflecting on the project, an architectural space is understood as a continuous process of becoming enacted by various human and nonhuman forces instead of as a stable object with a sole human author. Architecture is reimagined as part of the web of care sustaining all life.