- Systemic changes
The practice, as well as concept to think with, is to be seen as a strategy for change, starting from the small and micro-political.
It builds on the assumption that the ways in which the physical surrounding is formed and shaped, also shape and affect people’s perception and relation to themselves and the surrounding world.
Based on feminist ethics of care that includes more than human worlds, Architherapy is crafted as an approach to spatial making which provide tools, techniques, a vocabulary and methods for building as a way to become capable to foster networks of caring relations.
This concerns the whole range from ways in which shared ideas are taking form, or how to work and think together in asymmetrical power relations, to building techniques for hands-on construction.
Building with re-used and gathered materials, means that one has to learn to improvise and be attentive. It is not possible to follow pre-set plans and standardized thinking, but instead one need to learn how to actively make use of oneself in relation to what’s encountered.
Masonry technique that combines clay mortar and untreated wood. Materials that are gathered from the surrounding environment.
Masonry mediation: the rhythmic and repetitive masonry technique, which also is adapted to allow intuitive building is a practice in endangered human capacities such as patience and concentration and make room for long thoughts that can be followed all the way to an end.
Building with natural materials that one gathers is a process of learning to think with, and getting to know the surrounding environment.
