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SUMMARY:Ana María León_POSITIONS XXV
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Ana María León.Ana María León’s work traces how 
 spatial practices and transnational networks of power and resistance shape 
 the modernity and coloniality of the Americas. Her research and teaching 
 foregrounds the agency of populations under struggle and the multiple forms 
 of bias embedded in the built environment and its histories. León is 
 invested in collaborative approaches to learning\, teaching\, and writing. 
 Attention to multiple critical positions\, particularly those of 
 historically underrepresented groups\, she argues\, grounds our 
 understanding of history in the politics of coliberation.\n\nAbout 
 _positions\n\nWhere do you stand in the field of architecture? 
 “_positions” is a series of conversations convened by the Department 
 of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design aimed 
 at revealing the positions – temporary\, relational\, and self-conscious 
 – taken by players on the field of contemporary architecture. 
 Participating GSD faculty and invited guests are drawn from all facets of 
 the discipline – architects\, designers\, historians\, scholars\, 
 theorists\, technologists\, and those in other allied fields. The notion of 
 relationality supersedes any fixed number of speakers. All speakers are 
 asked to discharge the same task: share three projects that correspond to 
 the development of your position over time. \n\nEach speaker’s three 
 projects are selected and regarded as answers to a series of guiding 
 questions. First\, what project by a mentor or teacher or school of 
 thought informed the position you occupy today? (Where did your position 
 come from and to whom or what do you owe your line of thinking?) Second\, 
 what project of your own was the first to indicate your position? (Where 
 did your position begin and how did it define your stance in a particular 
 spot?) Third\, what project indicates where you stand now\, and perhaps 
 indicate how you will evolve? (How does the project align with your other 
 work and/or seed future agenda?) The word “project” remains broadly 
 construed\, to encapsulate any kind of endeavor related to architecture. It 
 may mean a building (built or unbuilt)\, a book\, an essay\, or another 
 type of work that is significant to the author’s positioning. \n\nThe 
 conceptual understructure of this series aims to differ from the crisp 
 binaries in the language of a journal like OPPOSITIONS\, and from the 
 collage-like heterogeneity drawn from a journal like Assemblage. 
 Instead\, _positions reasserts an embodied\, spatial sense of 
 architecture’s field as a dynamic condition in which to situate 
 ourselves. Projects today are nearer to or farther from each other\, 
 between or beside one another\, qualified by shades of adjacency instead of 
 by pure difference. Further\, _positions uses these spatial modes of 
 positioning to open up discursive vocabularies for describing relationships 
 in the field without exclusively resorting to languages of dialectical\, 
 binary\, or irreconcilable difference. While taking a position in (or on) a 
 field has historically meant seeking maximum distinction\, the most space\, 
 from one’s neighbors\, we now can imagine it to mean otherwise\, as in 
 piling on\, gathering around\, or finding mutualisms across 
 gaps. _positions deliberately leaves the prefix blank to encourage 
 innovation in describing these relationships\, expanding the framework of 
 the architectural field to include im-position\, re-position\, 
 ap-position\, post-position\, inter-position\, ex-position\, dis-position\, 
 com-position\, juxta-position\, contra-position…
LOCATION:Loeb Library Lobby\, Upper Level
ORGANIZER;CN="Claudia Lewis":MAILTO:claudia_lewis@gsd.harvard.edu
CATEGORIES:GSD Events in the Library
CONTACT;CN="Claudia Lewis":MAILTO:claudia_lewis@gsd.harvard.edu
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