How to make yourself a Feminist Design Power Tool

by Hélène Frichot

Set amidst the experimental ecology of practices that supports feminist thinking and doing in architecture, this small book outlines an instruc- tion guide that presents six provocative steps toward the invention of productive concept-tools. It invites readers to explore creative and messy methodologies that combine an aesthetics with a practical ethics. Frichot encourages us to think and do architecture in ways that challenge a dog- matic status quo that celebrates major gures, while overlooking the care and labour of minor gures and practices.

142 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2016

Reviews

[zo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was hoping for a bit more from this one, the intro is so very enticing and the references mentioned are of course interesting as they open up to the work of many interesting thinkers and doers, doing things differently, non linear. The whole repetitive presence of deleuze and guatarri got tiring, and I was hoping for more examples of practices as mentioned in the intro, of projects implemented and methods to brake. The phenomenology of it, the conceptual missing concepts and concept-tools for environment-worlds was pertinent and interesting at some points but felt long winded and not very pedagogical.

Shouldn’t feminist work and concept-tools be at the very least accessible for those who aren’t relying on name dropping reference works ? What to do with the thinkers, doers and students who don’t have the language and the concepts ?