Bachelor in Architecture Studies

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THEORY. GENDER EQUITY

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Description
Gender Equity Course Type: Elective Second semester ECTS Credits: 3 Professors: Montserrat Villaverde and Josefina Díaz Languages: Catalan, Spanish, and English Weaving new stories about space involves listening to silenced voices. In this course, we will analyze the environment from theoretical, discursive, and visual perspectives. These analyses form the concept of landscape, aiming to determine its social, political, and cultural dimensions. This course is part of the ALEC_byWomen educational and research project, which offers a critical rereading of the Mediterranean landscape from a feminist and contextual approach. The course integrates landscape, architecture, memory, and gender as fundamental axes for analyzing familiar territories, questioning dominant narratives and incorporating historically marginalized voices and perspectives. Through the study of four pioneering artists: Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari, Nelly?s (Turkey, 1899 ? Greece, 1998), Manuelle Roche (France, 1931?2010), Mey Rahola (Spain, 1897 ? France, 1959), and Atteyat Al Abnoudy (Egypt, 1939?2018), the course seeks to generate conceptual and methodological tools to incorporate sensitive and critical approaches into the representation of the landscape, combining theory and practice through the development of a personal project.
Type Subject
Optativa que no es cursa
Semester
Second
Credits
3.00
Previous Knowledge
Objectives

-Introduce a feminist approach to the analysis of landscape and cultural heritage.
-Foster critical reflection on the visual construction of territory through landscape, architecture, memory, and gender.
-Reflect on concepts such as emotional cartography, cultural amnesia, and variations as tools to read, interpret, and represent the environment critically.
-Challenge hegemonic narratives by incorporating new ones that recognize everyday and affective expressions traditionally excluded from inhabited space.
-Lead the development of a personal project that integrates theory and practice from a sensitive and committed perspective.

Contents

-Theoretical Framework:
Mediterranean cultural landscapes: tensions, representations, and scales.
-Introduction to emotional cartography: subjective and affective perception of space. Cultural amnesia and power structures in the construction of collective memory. The concept of variations: sensitive traces, gestures, and repetitive materials as project triggers.
-Case Studies:
Readings of the visual works of Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari, Manuelle Roche, Mey Rahola, and Atteyat Al Abnoudy.
-Practice and Exploration:
Techniques of observation, visual recording, drawing, cartography, photography, video, and collage.
-Fieldwork on a chosen territory.
-Final Project Development:
Conception, formalization, and presentation of a proposal that merges theory and visual creation.
Public exhibition and collective debate of the works.

Methodology

-Theoretical classes: presentation of key content supported by texts, visual, and audiovisual references.
-Seminars and debates: critical reading of materials, group discussion from a gender perspective.
-Practical workshops: individual and group exercises to experiment with various visual formats.
-Final presentation: public exhibition before a guest jury, accompanied by a written reflection and critical debate.

Evaluation

Continuous assessment (50%) and evaluation of the process and final project presentation (50%).

Evaluation Criteria

Development of critical capacity from a gender perspective.
Implementation of personal criteria in reading environments.
Assimilation in inclusive project approaches.
Rigor in the written argument and quality in the project formalization.

Basic Bibliography

AAVV. Hábitat y género. Mujeres construyendo un hábitat sostenible e inclusivo. Universidad del Medio Ambiente. Mexico, 2024
AAVV. Nelly?s. The work of the Greek photographer Elly Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari 1899?1998. Benaki Museum. Athens, 2023
Roche, Manuelle. Le M?Zab. Architecture Ibadite en Algérie. Arthaud, Paris, 1978
AAVV. Mey Rahola (1897?1959). La nova fotògrafa. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and Museu de l'Empordà, 2022
Atteyat Al Abnoudy filmography: https://www.youtube.com/@ateyyatel-abnoudy9119

Additional Material

Specific dossier developed for the course. Includes complementary materials about the four artists studied.