Exploring Ecological Relationality Through Architectural Practice

Authors

• Maiju Suomi Aalto University
• Maarit Mäkelä Aalto University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.142537

Keywords:

environmental architecture, practice-led research, relationality, more-than-human world, care

Abstract

This practice-led research article explores how post-humanist and eco-feminist perspectives of entanglement and relationality challenge human exceptionalism as a basis for making architecture in the process of the Alusta research pavilion. Multisensory spatial experience, material circulation and more-than-human temporalities are explored through building a temporary pavilion for multispecies encounters in an urban museum setting. Reflecting on the project, an architectural space is understood as a continuous process of becoming enacted by various human and nonhuman forces instead of as a stable object with a sole human author. Architecture is reimagined as part of the web of care sustaining all life.