Resumen de From authorial practices to network cooperation in the production of social space. An ANT approach to design
This paper describes my research topic, which is focused on exploring new approaches in order to rethink design in a "non-authorial" form, challenging the profession’s dominant perspectives and highlighting that architects have the possibility to fill an ethical, social and political gap in our profession. My research seeks to investigate on the issue of the production of architectural and urban space through comparing the traditional practices that favour an hegemonic role for the architect with those linked to Bruno Latour’s ANT – Actor Network Theory -, in which the architect operates within a more complex web of relationships between other subjects, other actors, other agents of different nature and culture. Therefore it suggests to go beyond the idea of architecture as an autonomous practice, questioning and crossing habitual disciplinary boundaries.
