Campus Units
Architecture
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
10-30-2014
Conference Title
Sharing the World
Conference Date
October 30, 2014
City
Bristol, United Kingdom
Abstract
What else could be more appropriate for a conversation about sustainable architecture, than the proposition in Luce Irigaray’s Sharing the World that it is the task of the human being, to learn not to appropriate resources but to share life, with each other and with plants? The question of sustainable architecture is, however, dominated by a discourse comparing the energy performances of buildings and on abstract certification or “rating tools”, each easily manipulated to serve the purposes of either commercial or political gain. Despite a rich history of architects challenging relationships with nature and re-envisioning community, and social scientists addressing how societies use or conserve energy, this current trend presents the problems of sustainable architecture as distinct from that of the human being, his and her desires.
Copyright Owner
Andrea Wheeler
Copyright Date
2014
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Wheeler, Andrea, "Sharing the World: an approach for sustainable architectural design" (2014). Architecture Conference Proceedings and Presentations. 106.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/arch_conf/106
Comments
This is an invited spoken text contribution to the round table at the seminar Sharing the World with Luce Irigaray, Michael Marder and Judith Still, Wills Memorial Building, Reception Room, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, 30th October 2014.