Step into my Queerhouse: Queering the Now/Future

Dollhouse Drawing - "Step into my QueerHouse" by Michelle Hook.

Michelle Hook是华盛顿大学建筑环境学院的M.Arch毕业生。在“走进我的Queerhouse：对现在/未来的挑战”的探讨中，Hook探讨了建筑在表征中的作用，以及推理小说如何帮助改变建筑环境的观点。

Michelle Hook is an M.Arch graduate from the University of Washington College of Built Environment. Archinect was able to chat with Hook and dive into her thesis project, "Step into my Queerhouse: Queering the Now/Future." Hook explores architecture's role in representation and how speculative fiction can help change the built environment's perspectives.

Hook分享道：“ ...构筑一种可能固有的奇异的结构，推理小说成为世界建设的策略，不受规范的约束和框架的影响。创造新世界。” 她还讨论了在新冠疫情期间找工作的打算。

Hook shares, "...to construct a new architecture, one that may be inherently queer, speculative fiction becomes the tactic of world-building, free from the constraints and the framework of the normative. The final action of imagining, and therefore queering, creates the new world." She also discusses her take on finding a job during a pandemic and her plans for staying sharp as opportunities present themselves.

Dollhouse Collage. Image courtesy of Michelle Hook

我开始质疑建筑在社会表征中的作用。建筑是为谁而设计的？它是谁制造的？它如何塑造居住者？

I began questioning architecture's role in the representation of society. Who is architecture made for? Who is it made by? How does it shape those who inhabit it?

House Revealed. Image courtesy of Michelle Hook

本文将推理小说作为一种解构和破坏建筑规范的奇异策略，从而（重新）构造奇异的建筑。

This thesis uses speculative fiction as a queer tactic to disorient and deconstruct the norm in architecture and therefore (re)construct queer architecture.

请简要描述您的论文/最终项目和您的灵感。

Please briefly describe your thesis/final project and your inspiration.

当我不得不面对自己的身份转变时，就开始了调查，这种转变不再遵循一种看似固定的生活道路。我开始质疑建筑在社会表征中的作用。建筑是为谁而设计的？它是谁制造的？它如何塑造居住者？谁被包括在内，谁落伍了？如果每个人都有想象力和创造自己的建筑的机构，空间和权力，世界将会是什么样？

The investigation started when I had to confront a shift in my own identity, one that no longer followed a seemingly set life path. I began questioning architecture's role in the representation of society. Who is architecture made for? Who is it made by? How does it shape those who inhabit it? Who is included and who gets left behind? What would the world look like if everyone had the agency, the space, and the empowerment to imagine and create their own architecture?

本文将推理小说作为一种奇异的策略来解构和破坏建筑规范，从而（重新）构造奇怪的体系结构。调查仔细检查了房屋是最亲密的建筑空间，第二层皮肤。通过一种解构规范的方法，以包括一系列行动，例如计划的攻击，重新定位，分裂和割裂，夸大和颠倒规范，新的体系结构和世界将会出现。但是，为了构建一种可能固有的奇怪结构，推理小说将成为世界建设的策略，而不受规范的约束和框架的影响。想象的力量创造新的世界。 

This thesis uses speculative fiction as a queer tactic to disorient and deconstruct the norm in architecture and therefore (re)construct queer architecture. The investigation closely examines the home as the most intimate space of architecture, a second skin. Through a methodology of deconstruction of the norm, to include a series of actions such as planned assaults, reorientations, splits and cuts, exaggerations and inversions of the norm, a new architecture and world can emerge. But to construct a new architecture, one that may be inherently queer, speculative fiction becomes the tactic of world building, free from the constraints and the framework of the normative. The final action of imagining, and therefore queering, creates the new world. 

DollHouse elevations. Image courtesy of Michelle Hook

作为科幻小说的狂热读者，尤其是作家NK Jemisin，Octavia Butler，Ursula Le Guin和Nnedi Okorafor的作品，我从这些女性的故事中汲取了灵感，这些故事是对我们自己的另类现实形式的质疑。因此，本篇论文伴随着一系列的短篇小说，作为新世界建筑的形式。特别是其中一个以传统的玩具屋为背景，主人公使用上述动作对房屋进行了拆解，以创建一个新的玩具屋。在这里，建筑作为一种世界建筑形式出现，并产生了未来的叙事形式，其中包括新的社会规范和交叉身份，包容和梦幻般的欲望，以及对过去叙事的重新审视和索回。

As an avid reader of science fiction, particularly by authors N.K. Jemisin, Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin, and Nnedi Okorafor, I drew inspiration from the stories written by these women as forms of alternative realities that questioned our own. Therefore, a series of short stories accompany this thesis as forms of this new world building. One in particular took a traditional dollhouse as the setting, where the protagonist used the above actions to deconstruct the house in order to create a new one. Here enters architecture as a form of world building and production of future narratives to include new social norms and intersectional identities, inclusive and fantastical desires, and re-examined and reclaimed past narratives. 

Psychoanalysis. Image courtesy of Michelle Hook

我发现与以前相比，视频和叙事使用在线评论更多了。我很高兴看到新的演示形式如何鼓励人们讲故事。

I am seeing the use of video and storytelling through video used much more with online reviews than before and I am excited to see how new forms of presentation might encourage how people tell their story. 

(L-R) "I Do Not Belong," "Disorientation," and "Becoming With. Image courtesy of Michelle Hook

当工作室过渡到远程学习时，您的项目有何变化？

How did your project change as studios transitioned to remote learning?

尽管我在疫情开始并过渡到远程学习之前介绍了我的最终论文，但我一直在进行下一轮论文决赛的在线评论。我感到鼓舞的是，除了传统的幻灯片和图形外，我看到了对各种形式的媒体的推动和接受。当我每周与论文顾问和同行会面时，我们将称呼我们的第三位论文委员会委员，当时我们都住在西雅图，当时他住在柏林。即便如此，她仍然能够收听我们的评论并通过在线视频平台参与。现在，我们许多人都可以参与来自世界各地的评论。 

Although I presented my final thesis before the start of the pandemic and transition to remote learning, I have been participating in online reviews for the next round of thesis finals as they happen. I have been encouraged to see the push and acceptance for different forms of media beyond traditional slides and graphics. When I was meeting weekly with my thesis advisors and peers, we would call our third thesis committee member, who at the time was living in Berlin while we were all in Seattle. Even then, she was able to tune in to our reviews and participate through online video platforms. Now, many of us are able to participate in reviews from all over the world. I am seeing the use of video and storytelling through video used much more with online reviews than before and I am excited to see how new forms of presentation might encourage how people tell their story. 

Psychoanalysis. Image courtesy of Michelle Hook

作为一名应届毕业生，您对现在的建筑行业和工作前景有何看法？ 

As a recent grad, how do you feel about the architecture industry right now and job prospects? 

老实说，我不知道。我下个月要结束六个月的实习，目前没有任何未来的工作。当我开始寻找新的职位空缺时，随着时间的流逝，我注意到更多的职位空缺。我计划使用额外的时间，我确定我将必须申请居留权，用于概念实践的潜在拨款，甚至可能开始研究和测试ARE。

To be honest, I don't know. I am ending a six month internship next month and have no future job currently lined up. As I have started looking at new listings for job openings, I have noticed more are getting posted as the days pass. I plan to use the extra time that I'm sure I'll have to apply for residencies, potential grants for conceptual practice, and maybe even start to study and test for the ARE's.

原文链接：https://archinect.com/features/article/150204192/university-of-washington-m-arch-graduate-michelle-hook-on-using-speculative-fiction-as-a-queer-tactic-to-disorient-and-deconstruct-the-norm-in-architecture

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