120905 - LOS CUERPOS DE LA SOSTENIBILIDAD / THE BODIES OF SUSTAINABILITY

::: Uriel Fogué y el sociólogo Fernando Domínguez Rubio participan en el encuentro CRESC 2012 Annual Conference / Uriel Fogué and the sociologist Fernando Domínguez Rubio will take part in CRESC 2012 Annual Conference  ::: Presentarán la comunicación / They will be presententing the paper: 'Architectural prototypes and the promised bodies of sustainability' ::: Center for Research on Socio-Cultural Chancge (CRESC), Manchester ::: Fecha / Date: 5-7/Sept 2012 ::: Abstract:

7e-2: Architectural prototypes and the promised bodies of sustainability

Fernando Domínguez, The Open University and Uriel Fogue, Elii Architects/ Universidad Europea de Madrid

This paper explores the role that architectural prototypes can play in opening up unexplored vocabularies and new courses of political action. It will do so by focusing on a specific architectural prototype, the Jane Fonda Kit House, designed by the architectural office elii. Rendering the image of a possible future where citizens produce a part of their domestic energy requirements with their own physical activities, the prototype is meant to perform a civic and political function acting as a pedagogical device that makes visible the body as a key battlefield in the design of sustainable futures. Specifically, the prototype will make evident how the promises of sustainable futures require the production of a new culture and of new bodies. The prototype shows that, by inhabiting the domestic space, bodies can be productively mobilized in processes of energy production and participate as active agents in different political ecologies. In so doing, it will enable us to engage with questions such as: What kinds of bodies are required to fulfill the promises of imagined as part of sustainable futures? What are the domestic and public infrastructures required to produce those bodies? Which bodies are excluded from the promises of those sustainable futures? The discussion of this specific prototype is meant to serve as a starting point to explore how these architectural artifacts can be productively employed as useful fictions to generate new forms of political discussion and questions.

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