CONTENTS Notes on the contributors vii Foreword: from Alterities and beyond xiii 1 Altering practices 1 Doina Petrescu 2 Taking place and altering it 15 Teresa Hoskyns, Doina Petrescu and other mixed voices 3 Evaluating Matrix: notes from inside the collective 39 Julia Dwyer and Anne Thorne 4 An invisible privilege muf 57 5 How to take place (but only for so long) 69 Jane Rendell 6 Building while being in it: notes on drawing 'otherhow' 89 Katie Lloyd Thomas 7 Stray Sods: eight dispositions on 'the feminine', space and writing113 Brigid McLeer 8 Micro-strategies of resistance 126 Helen Stratford 9 Altering events in architecture 141 Anne Querrien 10 Urban curating: a critical practice towards greater 'connectedness' 153 Meike Schalk 11 Open Kitchen or'cookery architecture' 167 Kirn Trogal 12 Building clouds, drifting walls 189 Ruth Morrow 13 Urban traces: civic performance art and memory in public space liana 201 Salama Ortar 14 Sex & Space: space / gender / economy 213 Marion von Osten 15 Refiguring dis/embodiments 241 Niran Abbas 16 Stabat Mater: on standing in for matter 259 Francesca Hughes 17 The unbearable being of lightness 281 Jennifer Bloomer 18Learning and building in the feminine 297 Sadie Plant