About this event Practices of architecture-writing Professor Jane Rendell will discuss the development of her site-writing practice over the past 20 years, starting with ‘Undoing Architecture’ from 1998, drawing attention to core concepts such as situatedness, relationality and positionality, informed by feminist philosophers such as Donna Haraway, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray, and psychoanalysts like Donald Winnicott, Andre Green and Jean Laplanche. With reference to several essays and work produced in the last few months, Jane will focus on the vital contribution situatedness offers to the process of structuring arguments, allowing spatial narratives to rework the conventional form of academic texts, while genres of autotheory, fiction and creative nonfiction, show ways of refiguring relations of intra- and inter-subjectivity, finding unexpected voices and points of view. The talk will conclude with a conversation between Professors Jane Rendell and Hélène Frichot about practices of architecture-writing/site-writing, focusing on the importance of feminist theory/philosophy, cultural geography, psychoanalysis and creative and other literary genres to the development of alternative ways of writing architectural history, theory and criticism, that they have been developing through their own work and with others.