As part our contributions to the ASA2022: Anthropology Educates
online conference (14 March to 7 November 2022), with my long-time colleagues Ester Gisbert and Enrique Nieto, we wrote a chapter contribution on our anthropological explorations of architectural education.
It has recently been published into the Open Access volume Educating Otherwise: Contexts, Interventions and Radical Possibilities of Anthropological Learning, edited by Sarah Winkler-Reid, Caroline Gatt, Tim Ingold, Elsayed E. Abdelhamid, Soumhya Venkatesan, Simone Dennis, Mariya Ivancheva, Cris Shore, Cynthia Sear and Andrew Dawson (Berghahn, 2026).
The book is presented as follows:
Learning and education are fundamental to human experience – yet they have often been side-lined in anthropological inquiry. Educating Otherwise brings these questions to the centre, exploring what anthropology can reveal about how people learn, and what learning reveals about anthropology itself. Spanning formats ranging from short essays to ethnographic fiction, the volume is organised around five themes: anthropology as education, decolonising the academy?, student-academic collaborations, anthropology and the university, and anthropology across disciplines. Together, these examine how anthropological education can perpetuate exclusion and privilege while also offering vivid, grounded accounts of more regenerative ways of teaching and learning.
Here is our contribution:
Mutual Intraventions: Anthropology and/as Architecture, and the Other Way Round
In recent years, both independently and in a series of teaching collaborations, we have been exploring what architecture and anthropology can learn from one another. Whereas for anthropologists, architecture could inspire a more materially grounded, compositionist, and interventionist approach, anthropology’s emphasis on processual and relational inquiry, together with the conceptual vocabularies and borrowings from more-than-human, multispecies and new materialist thought, might also help us to rethink architectural practice. In this chapter we wish to discuss the ‘conceptual travails’ – or, as we will call them, the ‘mutual intraventions’ – we have been undertaking over the last eight years.
How to cite: Gisbert, E., Criado, T. & Nieto, E. (2026). Mutual Intraventions: Anthropology and/as Architecture, and the other way round. In Winkler-Reid, S. (Eds.) Educating Otherwise: Context, Interventions and Radical Possibilities of Anthropological Learnings (pp. 90-102). Berghahn | PDF