Isabelle Doucet
Isabelle Doucet is professor of theory and history of architecture at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, where she also acts as ACE’s coordinator for the university-wide Gender Initiative for Excellence (Genie). Since joining Chalmers, Isabelle initiated the research project “Women Architects and 1968”, beginning with pilot research on women graduates at Chalmers. Previously Isabelle was based at the University of Manchester, Manchester School of Architecture, and has also taught at universities in Belgium, Italy, Germany, and The Netherlands. Her research focuses on the relationship between architecture, (urban) politics, and social responsibility with a focus on the 1970s and the repercussions of architecture's "post-political" turn. She examines such questions through both conceptual-methodological inquiries and historical and contemporary cases.
Isabelle’s books include The Practice Turn in Architecture. Brussels after 1968 (2015) and the co-edited volume Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism (2011, with Nel Janssens). She recently co-edited the thematic issue “Resist Reclaim Speculate. Situated Perspectives on Architecture and the City” (Architectural Theory Review, 2018, with Hélène Frichot) and had previously co-edited thematic issues for Footprint Journal and Candide Journal for Architectural Knowledge. Isabelle’s research has been published in journals including Architecture & Culture, Architectural Theory Review, Oase Journal of Architecture, City Culture and Society, E-Flux, and the Journal of Educational Administration and History; and in edited volumes, such as the recently published Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement (Routledge 2018).
Since 2018, Isabelle acts as a general editor for Architectural Histories, the journal of the European Architectural History Network (https://journal.eahn.org). In 2018-2019, she participated in the Multidisciplinary Research Program titled “Architecture and/for the Environment” (https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/55861/multidisciplinary-research-program-architecture-andfor-the-environment) organised by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Interspecies Encounters: Design (Hi)stories, Practices of Care, and Challenges
Architectural Storytelling: A Space Between Critical Practice and Fragile Environments
Tales of Cities as (Resistant) Practices (REPRINT)
1968 and Beyond: The urban struggle on trial?
Activism at Home. Architects Dwelling between Politics, Aesthetics, and Resistance
Revisiting Environmental Learning: Cities, issues and bodies
Entangled Histories. Architecture, Women, 1968
Architectural Practice and Education “From the Inside Out”
Review: Mai 68: L'architecture aussi!
Architecture and the Environment
Resist Reclaim Speculate: Situated Perspectives on Architecture and The City
Tales of Cities as (Resistant) Practices
Understanding Social Engagement in Architecture: towards situated-embodied and critical accounts
Narrate, Speculate, Fabulate (published conversation)
De Belgische ‘counter’ episode 1965-1980. Stad en architectuur tussen denken, durven en doen
Learning in the ‘Real’ World: encounters with radical architectures (1960s– 1970s)
Architecture Wrestling the Social: The “Live” Project as a Site of Contestation
Disruptive Design: on design gestures, breathing, and not-doing (published conversation)
Aesthetics between provocation and production: counter-projects
Editors letter (Thematic issue Guest Editorship)
ARAU (Atelier de recherche et d’action urbaines): counter-projects
The Practice Turn in Architecture. Brussels after 1968 (research monograph)
Counter-projects and the postmodern user
Learning from Brussels. An irreductive approach to architectural and urban problématiques?
Agency in Architecture (editorial, thematic journal issue)
Brussels: The Soft Regeneration
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Green Participation. The Sociopolitics of Ecological Landscape Design in the Work of Louis le Roy
Women in Architecture Leadership: “the new normal” or future amnesia?
When Experts Meet: Learning from Histories of Sustainable Transport
Women in Architecture after 1968