Unsettling educational Modernism : Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Vancouver / Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber, Guests & Hosts ; texts, Treena Chambers [and three others].

First edition.

Hamburg : adocs publishing ; Graz : in cooperation with Edition Camera Austria, 2021.
©2021

128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. + 1 poster (72 x 47 folded to 24 x 16 cm)

Bildungsmoderne/educational Modernism

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).

9783943253511 (paperback)
3943253511 (paperback)

Simon Fraser University Buildings History Exhibitions.
Simon Fraser University
Universities and colleges British Columbia Vancouver Exhibitions.
Architectural design Social aspects Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Architectural design Social aspects.
Design architectural Aspect social.
Universités Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Expositions.
Design architectural Aspect social Expositions.
Architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture, Modern
Vancouver (B.C.) Buildings, structures, etc. Exhibitions.
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exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Bitter, Sabine, 1960- editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
Weber, Helmut, 1957- editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
Chambers, Treena, writer of supplementary textual content.
Scudeler, June, writer of supplementary textual content.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, host institution.

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Vancouver

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