You have presented your Artefact as the concept of a workshop on ‘Research Analysis’, that you hope to expand in focus and enable a cross discipline participation. This is an interesting proposition because a wider set of participants can help to bring a broader set of experiences to the conversation. With appropriately scaffolded and unpacked terms this could foster a much more inclusive and diverse space for students.
However, you may wish to consider your definition and application of diversity and inclusivity in this context. There is a deep and long colonial legacy of categorisation as a means of control. How do you intend to challenge this in the practice? How can you bring this more into focus within the activities? Have you considered these terms within the frameworks of Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory?
Additionally, I agree that a supporting ‘contextual bibliography’ would certainly assist in the scaffolding of more inclusive approach to the activity and perhaps will be a space to introduce some decolonial thought into the process. You may choose to consider how ‘inclusivity’ as a term exists as a remedy to ‘exclusivity’ therefore think about what may have been exclusive in this activity in the past and how it could be challenged in your next iteration of the activity.
Finally please find some further questions as provocations to support your evolution on this unit, with what we hope to be supporting resources:
- How can you signpost and unpack the deeply entrenched terms within Architecture? Here is a resource with expansive additional and contextual reading lists –
https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/100993/3/Race_space_and_architecture.pdf
- How can we define inclusivity and accessibility?-
- An example of the intersection of Decolonialisation/architecture and history –
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/24/the-project-of-independence-architectures-of-decolonization-in-south-asia-museum-of-modern-art
I hope that you find this information useful and I welcome the opportunity to have a discussion with you in our 1 to 1 tutorial, which can be booked here: https://moodle.arts.ac.uk/mod/scheduler/view.php?id=990097