Introduction
For more than a decade, DAAS – Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm – has developed the idea of the ’site as a method’ for research. This approach understands the site as a ground for knowledge production, where concepts emerge through practice and actions have lasting consequences. ’Site as method’ rejects the separation of theory from the conditions in which it takes shape and challenges the dominance of Western frameworks that claim universal validity. It values the knowledge embedded in lived experience, shared practices, and the minor gestures that shape everyday life.
In the final cycle of DAAS, participants will work with material that has been generated in the course over the previous years, where this material functions both as a living archive, collective memory, and a site in its own right. The course will activate research projects and conversations produced through a decade-long experiment in decolonial pedagogy and form new propositions and forms of transmission. As such, this year’s course places a particular emphasis on continuity and editing as participants will be invited to consider how their work contributes to a shared memory and how it may create conditions for future forms of practice beyond the academic frame.
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- Decolonizing Architecture – Al Masha Rural Commons (Continuation Course)
- Decolonizing Architecture: Internal colonization and the countryside
- Decolonizing Architecture 2020/2021
- Decolonizing Architecture: Al Masha – Rural Commons
- Decolonizing Architecture: Experimental Sites of Knowledge Production (fortsättningskurs)
- Decolonizing Architecture: Modernism and Demodernization