Unlearning Learnings: Bodies as a method in the 1970s deschooling pedagogies.
This PhD thesis examines the use of bodies as a method in architectural pedagogy. In searching for answers to the pressing topics of ecology, technology, globalisation, and social justice, this thesis looks to 1970s pedagogies where bodies served as a method for deschooling pedagogies. During this period, bodies left the typical classroom to travel, built ephemeral structures, discover the countryside, party, protest for better education, demand equality, and question the institutions.
Through an analysis of selective pedagogical experiments such as the Global Tools in Florence, The Halprin Workshop in California, and the F+F in Zurich, this thesis explores the possibility of "unlearning learnings".
Through a series of systematic examinations and historical analyses, this PhD thesis explores how bodies can be used as a method to address current pedagogical issues, drawing 1970s deschooling pedagogies where bodies redefined teaching and learning methodologies in architecture; and, (3) the possibilities of learning and building upon to improve today’s studio processes.
Through a series of systematic examinations and historical analyses, this PhD thesis explores how bodies can be used as a method to address current pedagogical issues, drawing inspiration from the 1970s deschooling pedagogies.
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Biography
Eleonora Antoniadou is an architect, educator, and researcher. Her research focuses on bodies as learning tools in architectural pedagogy and as platforms for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange. She looks at the 1970s as a period when the ideas of the abolition of school and the deschooling movements re-introduced the body into architecture education as a method to understand environment, equality and decolonisation.
Since 2012, she has been an architecture educator with teaching experience at several Universities internationally.
She is the founding director of Superside Studio, an interdisciplinary practice dedicated to design, construction, and research. Her work and various collaborative projects have been awarded, published, and shown internationally, including at the 16th and 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, the Architectural Association’s Gallery, the Design Museum London, the Copeland Gallery, the Benaki Museum Athens, the Point Gallery, and Thkio Ppalies Cyprus.
Degrees
Eleonora holds a degree in Architecture from AUTH, an MA from the Architectural Association, and an MRes from the Royal College of Art, where she is currently a PhD candidate.
Awards
2021 Shortlisted for Best New Architecture in an Existing Building, Greek Architecture Award, Craft of Canning Museum, Livadia
2021 Distinction, 10th Biennale of Young Greek Architects, Craft of Canning Museum, Livadia
2017 1st Prize, Closed Competition, Urban Installation, Re- Horizon, Ayia Napa
2016 1st Prize, International Competition, Urban Design of the Old City Centre of Strovolos area, Cyprus
2016 1st Prize, International Competition, Pafos 2017 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE, Green Shower
2016 1st Prize, Closed Competition, Design of CTO’s Expo International pavilions
2012 Shortlisted, National Competition, Emotive Typology: Cyprus National Entry at the 13th, Venice Architecture Biennale
2010 3rd Prize, International Competition, Rehabilitation of ‘Sednaoui Al khazendar’, Cairo
2010 Honorable Mention - International Competition, Design of Dasoupolis School, Nicosia
Exhibitions
2023 Reaserach Biennale RCA, “Hopscotch”, Copeland Gallery London, Work: Embodied space
2021 17th Venice Biennale, Cyprus Pavillion, Contributor, Work: System of Options
2021 Benaki Museum, 10th Biennale of Young Greek Architects, Work: Craft of Canning Museum
2020 Reaserach Biennale RCA, Work: Between Design and Digital
2019 Design Museum London, Group Exhibition, Work: ”Position”
2019 Thkio Ppalies, Exhibition-performance, Curation+ Installation Design: Superimposition
2018 16th Venice Biennale, Cyprus Pavillion, Contributor, Work: The Craft of Canning Museum
2018 AplusA Gallery, Venice, Co-Curating:All’estero & Dr. K takes the waters at Riva. Version A
2017 Architectural Association, AA xx 100: AA Women in Architecture 1917 -2017, Work: The Craft of Canning Museum
2015 Point Gallery, Cyprus Puzzle Collective, Work: Xs Summer workshop outcome