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.