Carla Collevecchio has been selected for a doctoral position in Architecture at Umeå School of Architecture, in collaboration with the Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS) and UmArts. The position establishes a transdisciplinary research environment across architecture, gender studies, and artistic research.
Titled Choreographic Tactics: In Search of Embodied Methods for a Feminist Architectural Epistemology, the project builds on Collevecchio’s long-standing pedagogical and research work on “architecture through the body.” It addresses a fundamental gap in architectural knowledge production, which has traditionally relied on abstract representations and notions of a neutral body, overlooking how spatial norms are lived and enacted.
Carla was awarded a Small Visionary Project by UmArts which allowed the time and space to develop this doctoral research project to investigate how feminist choreographic practices, where movement operates as a form of inquiry, can be translated into architectural research methods. Through archival, analytical, and site-based experimentation, the project develops embodied and performative approaches to examine how space is experienced, organized, and contested through bodily action, contributing to new, situated modes of spatial knowledge in architecture.