Felicity D. Scott: Playing on Insecurities

Galerie VIPER is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Felicity D. Scott, who will present her new book Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency (Zone Books, 2016). F. Scott outlines how American alternative culture of the 1960s and 70s has historically influenced and continues to influence environmental governance and global regulation of the human population towards sustainability.

Felicity D. Scott: Playing on Insecurities
November 30, 2016, 7:00 PM
Galerie Viper, Vítkova 2, Prague 8

During her lecture, F. Scott will sketch the connections between various topics. She will talk, for example, about Kevin Roche's designs for the Ford Foundation Headquarters and One United Nations Plaza in New York, the Open Land and Earth People’s Parks communities, the two global UN conferences (the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment and the 1976 Vancouver Habitat Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development), the founding of the Architecture Machine Group at MIT initiated by Nicholas Negroponte, or Gerard K. O’Neill's proposal for habitable space colonies from the 1970s.

Felicity D. Scott is a historian and theorist of architecture. She is a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (New York), where she leads the doctoral program in History and Theory of Architecture. She is also co-director of the program Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (CCCP). Her work focuses on describing the genealogies of political and theoretical actions related to issues of technological and geopolitical transformation in modern and contemporary architecture, as well as in the discourses and institutions that shape and define architecture as a discipline. In addition to numerous texts on architecture and contemporary art, Felicity D. Scott is the author of the books Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics After Modernism (MIT Press, 2007), Living Archive 7: Ant Farm (ACTAR, 2008), Disorientation: Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Signs (Sternberg Press, 2016), and Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency (Zone Books, 2016). Alongside Mark Wasiuta, she co-curated the exhibitions Ant Farm: Radical Hardware (2008) and Les Levine: Bio-Tech Rehearsals, 1965–1975 (2016) and collaborated with M. Wasiuta and Marc Fusinato on the curatorial project La Fine del Mondo, which was part of the Monditalia section at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. F. D. Scott is the founding editor of Grey Room, a quarterly journal on architecture, art, media, and politics published by MIT Press.

The book Outlaw Territories is available for purchase directly at Galerie VIPER.
The lecture will be in English.

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