Reproductive Wilderness

Reproductive Wilderness 18th-19th century Architecture

"The pandemic has been an important torch for the politics of gender. Women were thrown into outdated gender roles of childbearing and rearing. Heteronormative homes turned into spaces of violence reminding us of the fragility within which the construct of the family is housed. An investigation into the role that architecture in this process plays an urgent matter in making and breaking such constructs. Studying reproduction is an interdisciplinary and trans-species field embedded in biopolitics. Yet, it largely stays within niche feminist discourse. Through my embodied experience of pregnancy and birth, I aim to highlight the entanglements of the womb in gestation. Navigating through biology, humanities, and architecture, I emphasize the role of architecture in circulating fluids of the reproduction economy. I refrain from narrating this story through the Capitolocene or Anthropocene. Instead, focusing on the Chthulucene, where non-humans are central to my story."

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