Research Catalog

Unsettling educational Modernism : Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Vancouver

Title
Unsettling educational Modernism : Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Vancouver / Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber, Guests & Hosts ; texts, Treena Chambers [and three others].
Publication
Hamburg : adocs publishing, 2021.

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Additional Authors
  • Chambers, Treena
  • Bitter, Sabine, 1960-
  • Weber, Helmut, 1957-
  • Guests & Hosts, editor.
  • Haus der Kulturen der Welt, host institution.
Description
128 pages illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm. +
Summary
The iconic architecture of the brutalist modernist megastructure of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada built by architect Arthur Erickson in the 1960s is the site of the artistic research project into the history of this "radical campus" and its built environment by Vancouver and Vienna based artists, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber. The collaborative research group, "Guests and Hosts", formed by Bitter & Weber and Métis scholar June Scudeler including Métis scholar and student Treena Chambers, Kanien?kehá:ka Mohawk student Toni-Leah Yake, as well as Rachel Warwick and Hannah Campbell, has challenged the narrative of the radical campus, so called because it was informed by experimental concepts of learning and teaching. Using the spaces of a settler colonial institution, the project shifts perspectives by unsettling and challenging western-based concepts of pedagogy and knowledge. Combining archival photographic material, architectural photographs by the artists, and interventions into the institutional spaces by Guests and Hosts, the project performs the claim for places rather than spaces for Indigenous ways of knowing and learning. Exhibition: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (29.01.-02.05.2021).
Series Statement
Bildungsmoderne/educational Modernism
Alternative Title
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Vancouver
Subject
  • Simon Fraser University > History > Exhibitions
  • Simon Fraser University
  • 1900-1999
  • Universities and colleges > Vancouver > Exhibitions
  • Architectural design > Social aspects > Exhibitions
  • Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Design architectural > Aspect social
  • Architectural design > Social aspects
  • Architecture, Modern
  • Vancouver (B.C.) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Exhibitions
  • British Columbia
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Cover title.
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, January 29-May 2, 2021.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
NA6605.C2
ISBN
  • 9783943253511
  • 3943253511
OCLC
  • on1263759781
  • 1263759781
  • SCSB-14299026
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries