‘May Our Egos Die So That the World May Live’
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May Our Egos Die So That the World May Live .pdf
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Published version
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7.92 MB
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Author(s)
Gupta, Huma
Date Issued
July 2, 2024
Journal
Journal of Architectural Education
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Citation
Gupta, H. (2024). ‘May Our Egos Die So That the World May Live’: Film, Climate, Pedagogy. Journal of Architectural Education, 78(2), 377–384.
Version
Final published version
Abstract
This image-based essay reflects upon the author’s experience of running an experimental filmmaking workshop titled Climate Futures, Cities Past in the spring of 2023 at MIT’s School of Architecture featuring stills from four student films set in Greece, Italy, Pakistan, and Syria. It explores how architectural pedagogy can intersect with filmmaking to offer a critical space outside the studio or seminar paper. Engaging eco-critical and narrative approaches of Stefanie K. Dunning, Jennifer Fay, Ursula K. Le Guin, Donna Harraway, Saidiya Hartman, Adrian J. Ivakhiv, and Ousmane Sembène, it explores how ‘cinema might teach us to die’ or rather, embrace a different eschatological paradigm that moves beyond individual authorship, accomplishment, and post-mortem legacy towards more mutualist, collectivist, and anarchic models of existence. It argues that filmmaking as inquiry can offer a way to collect different kinds of stories that help facilitate the messy, uncomfortable, and wildly creative processes of unworlding and reworlding.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2024.2382030
