Imprecise Rasude.x.s: Questioning Norms Through Non-Extractive Materials

Leo Laurent Marie Duyck

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Tamara Khalil

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Valérie Maillard

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Eva Père

Architecture is rooted in systems of power that exclude and silence diverse voices, often privileging the cisgender, heterosexual, able, male body—notably through norms. Rasude.x offers imprecision as a critical reflection on the built environment, using non- extractive materials and practices. By questioning logics of extraction, exclusion and standardisation, the project seeks possibilities for more inclusive, collective, sensitive spatialities. To reveal and counter normative violence of conventional construction, architecture becomes imprecise—a tool for emancipation and coexistence.

Files
Leporello (PDF), Dirty Norms (PDF)
Team
Unit:
RIOT
Teachers:
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Assistants:
Elif Erez Henderson, Antoine Iweins D'Eeckhoutte, Kathlyn R Kao
Infos
Year:
2025
Period:
Y3 (BA), Y1 (MA), Y2 (MA), Spring
Category:
Semester Project
Topic:  
Architecture, Construction, Environment, Experimentation, Housing, Society, Sustainability, Technology, Territory, Urban study
Copyright:
CC BY NC SA Licence
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