"The Seminar and the Sleaze: Party as Pedagogy"

an essay by Office Party, published in bias: bodies in architecture and structurres, Issue 2, Pleasure

edited by NOGOODS

Drawing on the sleaze and trash left behind at the party, we would suggest that a dirtier or more messy approach to institutional space could help to expand an otherwise sterile discipline. As Hélène Frichot explains, like madison moore's sleaze, dirt offers a conceptual approach for understanding how sense- and nonsense-making inform architectural thinking. As a form of mixed and intermixed discourse, embracing the dirtiness and messiness design thinking—from napkin to paper, or from student to teacher—allows for a feminist approach to pedagogical space...

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