ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIES of SPATIAL (IN)JUSTICE
- Dersin Düzeyi: Yüksek Lisans
- Tasarlanan Ders Kodu: 8010541
- Öğretim Türü: Örgün Öğretim (Normal Öğretim)
- Dersin Kapsamı: Teorik
- Akademik Yıl: 2026 - 2027
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Ders İçeriği:
This course examines architecture and the built environment as historical agents of spatial (in)justice. Grounded in architectural history and informed by critical theory, environmental humanities, and visual and literary culture, the course traces how power, property, labor, and governance have been materially organized through space across different historical periods and geopolitical contexts. Through historical case studies—from housing and infrastructure to borders, camps, prisons, ruins, and extractive landscapes—the course traces how architecture has shaped and mediated relations of authority, dispossession, mobility, and ecological transformation. Rather than treating architecture as a neutral backdrop, the course foregrounds land, buildings, and infrastructures as active agents in processes of enclosure, racialization, colonial expansion, mobility control, and environmental change. Readings draw on global case studies of architectural history across different geopolitical, colonial, and environmental contexts and span Black and Indigenous studies, feminist and postcolonial theories, and political ecology. These texts are paired with films, literature, and artworks that illuminate the spatial logics of injustice and resistance. Students will develop critical tools for the historical analysis of architecture across multiple scales—domestic, urban, territorial, and and planetary—while examining struggles over land, labor, habitation, and the more-than-human world. The course emphasizes architecture’s entanglement with politics, economy, violence, and care, and asks how spatial practices have both enforced and contested injustice across time.