Agency

Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk and Stephen Walker all teach and research at the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield. They are members of the Research Centre Agency, which conducts transformative research into architectural practice and education, suggesting research activity that both creates and responds to shifting conditions. Instead of remaining passively (and safely) within academic environments, Agency sees itself as a collective of agents acting both within and between the fields of research, practice, education, and civic life.

• Introduction: Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures Part 1: Intervene 1. Activism In Appalachia: Yale Architecture Students In Kentucky, 1966-1969 2. Environmental and Social Action in the Studio: Three Live Projects Along the Elizabeth River 3. Secondary Agency. Learning from Boris Groys 4. On Consensus, Equality, Experts and Good Design: Public Interview with Roberta Feldman and Henry Sanoff Part 2: Sustain 5. Acting Up: Architectural Practice as Ecological Performance 6. Ethics And Aesthetics: Deleuze, Diagrams and Sustainability 7. The Radical Potential of Architecture 8. Assemblage, Agency, and Ecologies of the Contemporary City Part 3: Mediate 9. Against Determination, Beyond Mediation 10. Agency and Automatism: Some Strategies of Irresponsibility in Architecture 11. Interior Exile and Paper Architecture: A Spectrum for Architectural Dissidence 12. Air Rights