Jane Rendell
Biographic Data
| ID | 104176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Rendell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Rendell |
| SIGNATURE | RENDELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6365-7075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Site-Writing as Holding
Researching with care: Ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions
This paper reflects on the ethics of research and knowledge co-production aimed at addressing urban inequality. It draws on work within the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) programme, which aimed to co-produce knowledge to activate transformation. We employ a lens of feminist care ethics to examine ethical challenges in research partnerships, which derive from interrelated layers of power asymmetry and inequality. We focus on ethical…
After the Strike? Part 2: Solidarity In and Out
This is part two of the essay exploring the activities of strikers at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL over a 14 day-period in the early spring of 2018. These days were part of the 2018 University and College Union (UCU) Pension Strike, one of the largest strikes of university academics in recent times, which occurred over a four-week period, with strike days increasing from two days in the first week, to five by the final week. This was …
After the Strike? Part 1: The Transitional Space of the Picket Line
This essay explores the activities of strikers at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL over a 14 day-period in the early spring of 2018. These days were part of the 2018 University and College Union (UCU) Pension Strike, one of the largest strikes of university academics in recent times, which occurred over a 4-week period, with strike days increasing from two days in the first week, to five by the final week. This was a strike to protect the…
Hotspots and Touchstones: From Critical to Ethical Spatial Practice
This essay starts with an event – what I have come to call “an ethical hotspot” – a moment in which my value systems were challenged and I found myself unable to continue to act as before, until I undertook some critical reflection. Marilys Guillemin and Lynn Gillam (2004 Guillemin, Marilys, and Lynn Gillam. 2004. “Ethics, Reflexivity, and ‘Ethically Important Moments’ in Research.” Qualitative Inquiry 10, no. 2: 261–280. doi:https://doi.org/10.1…
Architecture of Resistance: Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. It takes Palestine as the key ground of spatial exploration, looking at the spaces between people, boundary lines, documents and maps in a search for the meaning of architecture of resistance. Stemming from the need for an alternative discourse that can nourish the Palesti…
Giving an Account of Oneself: Architecturally
In January 2013, I questioned the decision of my employer, UCL, to accept $10 million of funding from the Anglo-Australian multinational mining and petroleum company BHP Billiton to create an International Energy Policy Institute in Adelaide, and the Institute for Sustainable Resources in London at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. At the time, I was Vice Dean of Research and my questions started a process which is figured here as a …
Site-Writing: She is Walking about in a Town Which She does not Know
Recently my writing has explored the position of the author, not only in relation to theoretical ideas, art objects, and architectural spaces but also to the site of writing itself. This interest has evolved into a project of “site-writing” that aims to spatialize criticism. “Site-writing” occurs when discussions concerning site specificity extend to involve art criticism, and the spatial qualities of writing and reading become as important in co…
Art and Architecture: A Place Between
The last twenty years have seen fascinating developments in the nature of collaboration between artists and architects and in the approaches taken by artists making work intended for public spaces. These sophisticated projects go far beyond the standard 'art for architecture' remit, limited as it is to the addition of 'artworks' to already designed buildings, the work described here invites us to rethink the reputation that public art has acquire…
Exploring 'an area of outstanding unnatural beauty: A treasure hunt around King's Cross, London
In this paper we describe the Pleasure of treasure treasure hunt around London's King's Cross area. The pleasure of treasure was devised as a response to Richard Wentworth's exhibition An area of outstanding unnatural beauty, November 2002. Richard Wentworth sought to explore the character of King's Cross by creating an exhibition space that would provide somewhere both where the overlooked and hidden histories of King's Cross could be gathered t…
Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space
The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space
West End rambling: Gender and architectural space in London 1800–1830
This paper is a theoretical and historical study which explores aspects of gendered space through the early nineteenth century urban ramble. It is argued that the activity of rambling represents a dominant mode of urban masculinity concerned with the physical and conceptual pursuit of pleasure, specifically sexual pleasure. The male rambler constructs his masculinity socially and spatially, through gendered codes of vision and movement. The autho…
The pursuit of pleasure: London rambling
Exploring 'an area of outstanding unnatural beauty: A treasure hunt around King's Cross, London
In this paper we describe the Pleasure of treasure treasure hunt around London's King's Cross area. The pleasure of treasure was devised as a response to Richard Wentworth's exhibition An area of outstanding unnatural beauty, November 2002. Richard Wentworth sought to explore the character of King's Cross by creating an exhibition space that would provide somewhere both where the overlooked and hidden histories of King's Cross could be gathered t…
West End rambling: Gender and architectural space in London 1800–1830
This paper is a theoretical and historical study which explores aspects of gendered space through the early nineteenth century urban ramble. It is argued that the activity of rambling represents a dominant mode of urban masculinity concerned with the physical and conceptual pursuit of pleasure, specifically sexual pleasure. The male rambler constructs his masculinity socially and spatially, through gendered codes of vision and movement. The autho…
Researching with care: Ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions
This paper reflects on the ethics of research and knowledge co-production aimed at addressing urban inequality. It draws on work within the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) programme, which aimed to co-produce knowledge to activate transformation. We employ a lens of feminist care ethics to examine ethical challenges in research partnerships, which derive from interrelated layers of power asymmetry and inequality. We focus on ethical…
Site-Writing: She is Walking about in a Town Which She does not Know
Recently my writing has explored the position of the author, not only in relation to theoretical ideas, art objects, and architectural spaces but also to the site of writing itself. This interest has evolved into a project of “site-writing” that aims to spatialize criticism. “Site-writing” occurs when discussions concerning site specificity extend to involve art criticism, and the spatial qualities of writing and reading become as important in co…
The pursuit of pleasure: London rambling
West End rambling: Gender and architectural space in London 1800–1830
This paper is a theoretical and historical study which explores aspects of gendered space through the early nineteenth century urban ramble. It is argued that the activity of rambling represents a dominant mode of urban masculinity concerned with the physical and conceptual pursuit of pleasure, specifically sexual pleasure. The male rambler constructs his masculinity socially and spatially, through gendered codes of vision and movement. The autho…
The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space
Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space
Exploring 'an area of outstanding unnatural beauty: A treasure hunt around King's Cross, London
In this paper we describe the Pleasure of treasure treasure hunt around London's King's Cross area. The pleasure of treasure was devised as a response to Richard Wentworth's exhibition An area of outstanding unnatural beauty, November 2002. Richard Wentworth sought to explore the character of King's Cross by creating an exhibition space that would provide somewhere both where the overlooked and hidden histories of King's Cross could be gathered t…
Art and Architecture: A Place Between
The last twenty years have seen fascinating developments in the nature of collaboration between artists and architects and in the approaches taken by artists making work intended for public spaces. These sophisticated projects go far beyond the standard 'art for architecture' remit, limited as it is to the addition of 'artworks' to already designed buildings, the work described here invites us to rethink the reputation that public art has acquire…
Site-Writing: She is Walking about in a Town Which She does not Know
Recently my writing has explored the position of the author, not only in relation to theoretical ideas, art objects, and architectural spaces but also to the site of writing itself. This interest has evolved into a project of “site-writing” that aims to spatialize criticism. “Site-writing” occurs when discussions concerning site specificity extend to involve art criticism, and the spatial qualities of writing and reading become as important in co…
Giving an Account of Oneself: Architecturally
In January 2013, I questioned the decision of my employer, UCL, to accept $10 million of funding from the Anglo-Australian multinational mining and petroleum company BHP Billiton to create an International Energy Policy Institute in Adelaide, and the Institute for Sustainable Resources in London at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. At the time, I was Vice Dean of Research and my questions started a process which is figured here as a …
Architecture of Resistance: Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. It takes Palestine as the key ground of spatial exploration, looking at the spaces between people, boundary lines, documents and maps in a search for the meaning of architecture of resistance. Stemming from the need for an alternative discourse that can nourish the Palesti…
Hotspots and Touchstones: From Critical to Ethical Spatial Practice
This essay starts with an event – what I have come to call “an ethical hotspot” – a moment in which my value systems were challenged and I found myself unable to continue to act as before, until I undertook some critical reflection. Marilys Guillemin and Lynn Gillam (2004 Guillemin, Marilys, and Lynn Gillam. 2004. “Ethics, Reflexivity, and ‘Ethically Important Moments’ in Research.” Qualitative Inquiry 10, no. 2: 261–280. doi:https://doi.org/10.1…
After the Strike? Part 2: Solidarity In and Out
This is part two of the essay exploring the activities of strikers at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL over a 14 day-period in the early spring of 2018. These days were part of the 2018 University and College Union (UCU) Pension Strike, one of the largest strikes of university academics in recent times, which occurred over a four-week period, with strike days increasing from two days in the first week, to five by the final week. This was …
After the Strike? Part 1: The Transitional Space of the Picket Line
This essay explores the activities of strikers at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL over a 14 day-period in the early spring of 2018. These days were part of the 2018 University and College Union (UCU) Pension Strike, one of the largest strikes of university academics in recent times, which occurred over a 4-week period, with strike days increasing from two days in the first week, to five by the final week. This was a strike to protect the…
Site-Writing as Holding
Researching with care: Ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions
This paper reflects on the ethics of research and knowledge co-production aimed at addressing urban inequality. It draws on work within the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) programme, which aimed to co-produce knowledge to activate transformation. We employ a lens of feminist care ethics to examine ethical challenges in research partnerships, which derive from interrelated layers of power asymmetry and inequality. We focus on ethical…
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