The Daily Grind
An Inventory of Contemporary Architectures of the »Enterprising Self«.
Investigations into Generic Architectures for Living, Playing and Working; Towards Architecture of Configurability?
The PhD project sets out to analyse and classify contemporary architectures of the »enterprising self«.
The »enterprising self« is a notion that gained contour in Anglo-American governmentality studies, reflecting upheavals of the Thatcher and Regean eras, though its original, but fragmentary concept goes back to an(unpublished) lecture series by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France at the end of the 1970ies. Foucault identified then processes of unversalisation of market-mechanisms as a neoliberal governmentality (c.f. Bröckling/Krasmann/Lemke: 2000).
It utilizes the notion of the »enterprising self« as a filter for looking at architecture (and its use) in order to find new ways to describe and therefore to design architecture.
It will look into what is already there, what is culturally invested, how the »enterprising self’s« place is set in relation to its politics, its economy, its role models, etc. and how its places are linked to each
another!
Status: Afsluttet
