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New Materialisms

Critical and Clinical CartographiesArchitecture, Robotics, Medicine, Philosophy

Edited by Andrej Radman and Heidi Sohn

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Discusses the newly emerging discourses between architecture and bio-medicine

Critical and Clinical Cartographies rethinks medical and design pedagogies in the context of both the Affective and Digital Turns that are occurring under the umbrella of New Materialism. This collection is framed through Deleuze's symptomalogical approach which creates the ideal terrain for architecture and medical technologies of care to meet with robotics, alongside the newly emerging 'materialist landscape'.

A number of questions emerge, which are addressed across the collection.

  • What is the impact of the Digital Turn on the contemporary medical and architectural education and/or practice?
  • How does the Posthuman Turn influence the possible convergence of medical and architectural education and/or practice?
  • How has the biopolitical concept of care mutated under the proliferation of digital technology?
  • How could medical research contribute to architectural design and how could design, in turn, contribute to the improvement of health care?

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This collection answers, through an impressive range of perspectives, the call of Nietzsche’s ‘great health’ – the health that ‘one does not merely have but also acquires continually,’ an impersonal health that traverses the whole of life. Displaying the unique ability to embody and map out those pulsing vitalities at the always more-than- and other-than-human intersections of architecture, robotics, medicine and philosophy, these chapters ultimately carry forward Deleuze’s ‘critical and clinical’ answer to Nietzsche’s call. Enjoy this symptomatology!
Table of contents

The Four Domains of the Plane of ConsistencyAndrej Radman & Heidi Sohni

Introduction: A Research into Man Machine Technologies: Architecture’s Dream of a Bio FutureArie Graafland

Part I: Architecture

1. Urban Correlationism: A Matter of AccessStavros Kousoulas

2. Housing Biopolitics and CarePeg Rawes

3. Amorphous ContinuaChris Smith

Part II: Robotics

4. Robots Don’t Care: Why Bots Won’t Reboot ArchitectureChristian Girard

5. The Convivial ART of Vortical ThinkingKeith Evan Green

6. Emotive EmbodimentsKas Oosterhuis

Part III: Medicine

7. Ecologies of Corporeal SpaceKatharina D. Martin

8. Swimming in the JointRachel Prentice

9. Key-Hole Surgery: Minimally Invasive TechnologyJenny Dankelman

Part IV: Philosophy

10. Elasticity and Plasticity: Anthropo-Design and the Crisis of RepetitionSjoerd van Tuinen11. Automata, Man-machines and Embodiment: Deflating or Inflating Life?Charles T. Wolfe

12. Generative Futures: On Affirmative EthicsRosi Braidotti

Notes on ContributorsIndex

About the contributors

Andrej Radman

Andrej Radman is Assistant Professor of Architecture Philosophy and Theory at Delft University of Technology, where he coordinates the Ecologies of Architecture research group. Over the past two decades, his research has focused on the nexus between architecture and radical empiricism. He serves as a member of the National Committee on Deleuze and Guattari Scholarship, a founding editor of the TU Delft OPEN Publishing Ecologies of Architecture book series, and was Executive Editor of the peer-reviewed architecture theory journal Footprint (2011–2024). Radman is co-editor of Critical and Clinical Cartographies (2017), Architecture of Life and Death (2021), The Space of Technicity (2024), and Noetics Without a Mind (2024). He is the author of Gibsonism (2012) and Ecologies of Architecture: Essays on Territorialisation (2021). A licensed architect with a portfolio of built and competition-winning projects, Radman received the Croatian Association of Architects’ annual award for housing architecture in 2002. In 2023, he was honoured with the Mark Cousins Theory Award presented by DigitalFUTURES, recognising leading theorists in architecture and design for forward-thinking contributions to the field.

Heidi Sohn

Heidi Sohn is Assiociate Professor of Architecture Theory at Delft University of Technology. She is a licensed architect and has published her work in several academic journals and books. They are both on the editorial board of the Footprint journal.

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