Architecturing-with all Creatures: speculating with children and other creatures foran ethico-political environment

Abstract

This paper describes a speculative research-creation study intend-ed to create a pedagogical tool to decenter the human in the practice of children’s architecture education. The research intertwines the reflection on Peñaloza Caicedo’s architectural-educational practic-es, speculative methodology, and a speculative research-creation event. We discuss how children living in Colombia and Australia performed this event, can experiment with living inquiries as the or-ganic transformations of materials occurring without the children’s intervention. This can lead them to build spaces thinking-with the other-than-human agency, and spaces for different species to share bodies, houses, landscapes and universes. Architectures that might be possible for an equitable terrestrial future.

Keywords

• architecturing-with
• children’s architecture education
• environmental education
• speculative research-creation
• architecture in the anthropocene
• posthuman citizens