EVENING EVENT
16.15–17.30 BOOK LAUNCH 1: Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces, authored by Lilian Chee, and published by Routledge, 2023, and introduced by Barbara Penner.
17:30–18:00 Refreshments
18:00–20:00 BOOK LAUNCH 2: The day culminates in Jennifer Bloomer: A Revisitation the launch event for the special issue of Journal of Architecture 2023. v. 28, n. 6, co-edited by Emma Cheatle and Hélène Frichot, celebrating the legacies of the ground-breaking work of Jennifer Bloomer. With contributions from: Laura Harty, Katie Lloyd Thomas, Jane Rendell, Doina Petrescu (tbc), Lilian Chee. Zoom contributions: Katarina Bonnevier, Julieanna Preston, Karen Burns (tbc). Responses: Kim Trogal and Katja Grillner (tbc).
Whatever happened to Jennifer Bloomer, the inspiring architectural thinker, practitioner and pedagogue? With this special issue of The Journal of Architecture, we gather a range of contributions — critical essays, photo essays, and creative works — as sites for experimentation and locations of critical discourse. With contributions from eleven architectural scholars, and a letter from Jennifer Bloomer herself, we interrogate, celebrate, and perform Bloomer. We ask: what was the impact, influence, and effect of her ground-breaking contributions to architectural discourse and practice? We aim to illuminate Bloomer’s legacy, and we also introduce projective scholarship on her extraordinary work. We explore her original making, writing, and pedagogical practices; we consider the material weight of her meticulous work on the texture of texts; we celebrate her art of conceptual creativity, spatial storytelling, experimental installation, and dirty drawing; and we revisit her intellectual curiosity and complexity.
Contributors to the special issue: Jennifer Bloomer, Katarina Bonnevier, Karen Burns, Emma Cheatle, Lilian Chee, Hélène Frichot, Laura Harty, Katie Lloyd Thomas, Doina Petrescu, Julieanna Preston, Jane Rendell, Mitchell Squire.
20:00 - 21:00 Drinks Reception and Discussion
