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Transforming architecture through fiction ? Some ideas from an experience in action

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The discipline of architecture - as well as the profession - should no longer be guided by the making of a new world. The environmental imperative, the climate crisis and more broadly our “anthropocene condition” show the obsolescence of our objects, our methods and our culture. The Transformation master's programme of l’École d’architecture, de la ville et des territoires Paris-Est (France), thinks of architecture as the agent of transformation of an inherited world, with its pieces, techniques, systems, and ideologies. In their projects and dissertations, the students explore the current state of obsolete territories, architectures and ideas, and their perspective of transformation. What is the architecture of transformation, in the light of contemporary societal and environmental issues? We conceive fiction as a modality of experience of reality, as an activation of the critical imagination, and as an original research tool. Through writing, architecture is reminded of its status as fiction, and the boundary between reality and fiction is questioned: the project must be "by nature" a fiction for a better world, and for us this fiction must be utopian. We take seriously the injunctions of philosophers like Donna Haraway and Isabelle Stengers : writing will help us to deconstruct the inherited narratives of modernity, and to imagine other stories. The exercise is then a way of apprehending contemporary issues that are often difficult to conceptualise, but it is also an experience of confronting one's imagination and the unknown. And this is very difficult. Our stories are not valid as programmes or proposals for solutions but as critical journeys, experiences of another relationships to time and history, as experiences of “strangification”, to quote Fredric Jameson. This writing experience is as valuable, if not more, than the dramatic events staged in the short stories. It is about recharging the imagination, engaging forms of conceptualisation that make it possible to think radical changes. Fiction is a gesture of politics and liberation, not 'futurology' or planning. We propose to present the hypotheses and the methodology of this pedagogical experimentation. We also would like to talk about our difficulties, that lead us to broader questions: why and how fiction in architecture? What to teach in architecture schools today?
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hal-04423166 , version 1 (29-01-2024)

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Frédérique Mocquet. Transforming architecture through fiction ? Some ideas from an experience in action. Architecture and its stories, All Ireland Architecture Research Group; UCD Dublin; Irish Architectural Archive; Museum of Literature Ireland, Mar 2022, Dublin, France. ⟨hal-04423166⟩
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