Unsettling educational Modernism
Subtitle: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Vancouver
By: Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber, Guests & Hosts ; texts, Treena Chambers [and three others]
Contributors: Guests & Hosts; Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Edition: First edition.
Series: Bildungsmoderne/educational Modernism
Publisher: adocs publishing
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Hamburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9783943253511
Subjects: Exhibitions; Buildings; History; Universities and colleges; Architectural design; Modern Architecture; Buildings, structures; Design architectural; Aspect social; Social aspects; Simon Fraser University
Other titles: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Vancouver
Description: The iconic architecture of the brutalist modernist megastructure of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada built by architect Arthur Erickson in the 1960s is the site of the artistic research project into the history of this "radical campus" and its built environment by Vancouver and Vienna based artists, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber. The collaborative research group, "Guests and Hosts", formed by Bitter & Weber and Métis scholar June Scudeler including Métis scholar and student Treena Chambers, Kanien?kehá:ka Mohawk student Toni-Leah Yake, as well as Rachel Warwick and Hannah Campbell, has challenged the narrative of the radical campus, so called because it was informed by experimental concepts of learning and teaching. Using the spaces of a settler colonial institution, the project shifts perspectives by unsettling and challenging western-based concepts of pedagogy and knowledge. Combining archival photographic material, architectural photographs by the artists, and interventions into the institutional spaces by Guests and Hosts, the project performs the claim for places rather than spaces for Indigenous ways of knowing and learning. Exhibition: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (29.01.-02.05.2021).
Notes: Cover title.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, January 29-May 2, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references.