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Jochen Kibel – Refiguring Landscapes - Designing Subjects?

Jochen Kibel (SFB 1265) – Refiguring Landscapes - Designing Subjects? 'Colonial Psychiatry', Villagization and Resistance in Kenya. In the service of the British Empire, J. C. Carothers, professor of the discipline of “colonial psychiatry” established in the colonies of the British Empire, proposed that the Mau Mau liberation fighters who had been rebelling against British colonial power since 1952 be interned in so-called emergency villages. The Mau Mau resistance should be broken by this large-scale and violent refiguration of space and the establishment of a system of internment camps. Through spatial fixation, the colonial subjects were to be controlled and kept in “semiotic poverty” in order to prevent their political organization (Nolan). At the same time, the spaces created by colonial urbanism and colonial spatial planning generated resistance. The appropriation of the spaces designed to produce colonial subjects equally produced the resistance against them. In the context of colonial spatial planning, it becomes apparent that design, in its historical impact, its inherent tension between the desire for control and resistance against it, and its socio- and psychogenetic dimensions, carries essential characteristics of the refiguration of spaces. Design thus becomes a driver of refiguration, precisely because it never completely determines communicative action and, at the same time, unintentionally always generates resistance against what it attempts to organize. Designing Refiguration – Refiguring Design 6/7. November 2025, IFA Forum – TU Berlin Hosted by the Collaborative Research Center 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces" https://www.sfb1265.de