Open Online Lecture Series: “Feminist Perspectives on Spaces of Care“

Open Online Lecture Series: “Feminist Perspectives on Spaces of Care“ Lecture Series within the BA/MA course “Taking Care! On Spaces of Reproduction“, coordinated and organised by AM Claudia Nitsche 

Mathilde Redouté: “Commoning the land in pre-industrial France and England: From being to owning“

“How to live together” is one of the oldest but most relevant and pressing questions humans have asked themselves. In October 2009 Elinor Ostrom received the Nobel Prize in economic science for her work on the “Analysis of economic governance, especially the commons” (and by doing so became the first woman to win this honor). The choice is not trivial as it occurred one year after the 2008 housing crisis confronting the flaws and the finiteness of our ways of living. Originating from the Greek oikonomia meaning “household management”, the field of economy contemporary defines the management of scarce resources, including all the human behaviors related to the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. By turning these last into commodities through the processes of agrarian land enclosures, market relation has become the norm by slowly dismantling and eliminating the manifolds of commoning. But its destruction also ironically revealed its existence, as well as commoners that represent an entire class structure deeply dependent on the products and system managing these natural resources. Their fight for subsistence revealed the direct role that commoning played in the (re)production of a large part of the population during the Middle-Age. By comparing the causes and effects of these processes in England and France through the open-field system, I will trace the spatial and social history of commoning, accompanied by agrarian experiences of which we must understand both the hesitations and the growing radicalism that has reshaped Europe to establish an absolute system of private property.“

Mathilde Redouté is an architect, curator and researcher. Currently, she is Ph.D. candidate at the Architectural Association in London on spatial practices of commoning. Previously she received a distinction for her MA research project re-tracing externalized domestic networks in Tokyo. 

After working at VTN in Vietnam and Junya Ishigami in Japan, she co-founded her design collective practice, Silteplait, based in London. Her work has been published in El Croquis, 2G… and exhibited at Centre Pompidou Paris, Fondation Cartier and Pavillon de l’Arsenal.

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