This paper is based on research carried out by an interdisciplinary team of four that includes myself and Nigel, here with you today and Jonathan Mosley, associate prof in architecture and artist Sophie Warren.  The project aimed at conceptualising buildings as psychosocial subjects using a combination of affect theory, psychoanalytic and social science approaches. 

So, what can we do? Acknowledging our vulnerability to these problems might be a start, recognise when we might be falling into them, listen and avoid silencing one another.

The paper introduces the research project ‘Architecture ‘on the couch’: ‘The psychology of buildings’ that radically re-conceptualises architecture as a psychological and psycho-social subject. Through transdisciplinary dialogue conceptual artist Sophie Warren, psychodynamic therapist Nigel Williams, psycho-social researcher Lita Crociani-Windland and architectural/art practitioner/academic Jonathan Mosley are re-tuning methods derived from psycho-social studies, psychoanalysis and conceptual art to explore the consciousness and unconsciousness of ‘architecture’.