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SUMMARY:Book Launch & Talk: Living Together: More-than-Human Ecologies for
  Architectural Thinking / THEMA
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DESCRIPTION:Authors Sonal Mithal and Akshar Gajjar in conversation with Ch
 anelle Adams and Will Davis\nAuthors Sonal Mithal and Akshar Gajjar in con
 versation with Chanelle Adams and Will Davis\n\nWhat does it mean for arch
 itecture to be a truly collaborative venture where plants and other specie
 s also exercise their agency? This would mean to make architecture recepti
 ve—physically\, premised on creating spaces for accommodating multispeci
 es\; and intellectually\, premised on  becoming aware of the needs of mor
 e-than-humans. Design-based approaches whether  technocratic or demonstra
 ting a theoretical standpoint are fragmented today and demand a holistic a
 pproach.\n\nLiving Together positions itself in that fragmentation. The bo
 ok is an inquiry into an architecture which allows multispecies alliances 
 to take place. It brings materialist and ecological inquiries to architect
 ural design\, practice\, and thinking\; acknowledging a necessity to go be
 yond established architectural ideals of progress\, monumentality\, longev
 ity\, and permanence.\n\nAuthors:\nDr Sonal Mithal runs the research\, con
 servation\, and art studio People for Heritage Concern and is program chai
 r of the conservation graduate program at CEPT University\, India. Her wor
 k transects architecture\, feminist ecologies\, queer studies\, and histor
 y. She recently published A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and Colon
 ial Archives: Lucknow Queerscapes (2024)\, Melding Matter (2021).　 \n\n
 Akshar Gajjar is an architect and researcher and is currently a PhD studen
 t at lab THEMA\, EPF Lausanne. His research transects architecture\, urban
 ism\, queer studies and ecology. He recently published Embroidered Watersc
 apes: Unpacking Relationships through Artisanal Map-making (2024) and pres
 ented his work at the American Association of Geographers annual conferenc
 e (2023).
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