Special Subject: Architecture Studies — Like a Descendant: Haunting, Archives, and Diasporic Senses of Place (H3 Half Term)

12/16/25 Note - subject is now H3 half term and schedule change to R 9:30-12:30

Place is location, but it’s also people, relationships, and memories, the site of things forgotten, suppressed or unrecorded, terrible and ordinary ways of being. The experience of people and peoples who have migrated, been displaced or exiled add further complexity to place: perhaps, an unshakeable orientation to elsewhere or a sense of in-betweenness; or a simultaneous yet imperfect belonging to both here and there, to neither here nor there; an intermittent or constant feeling of being entirely out of place. What is a diasporic sense of place, how do we image or describe it, and how might it reimage space and place to define a territory for spatial practice?

Note for MArch students: Serves as a HTC Non-Restricted OR Restricted Elective; also serves as an Urbanism elective