Max’s current research explores the use of site writing as a method of architectural history and theory production; exploring a Marxist ecological view as a critical method for architectural history; and research on more-than-human agency in the design of architecture and urbanism.
One of this main case studies and elements of investigation is the city of Kiruna/Giron, Sweden’s northernmost city and home to the world’s largest iron mine – examining the expanding mining operations, and associate city redevelopment and move, through the impact on more-than-human agents and local indigenous populations.
- Wisotsky, M. (Nov 2024) ‘Subterranean Feelings: Non-Human Agencies & Architectural ‘re-worlding’ in Northern Sweden’, Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), Body Matters (Conference)
- Wisotsky, M. (Nov 2022) ‘Ode to a Patch of Weeds: Non-human agencies & authentic architectures’, Radical Architectural Practice for Sustainability (RAPS), Radical entanglements: Architectures, Societies, Environments, Politics (Conference).
- Byrne, K., King, A., and Wisotsky, M. (April 2022) Collaborative action research on ‘Investigations into Models of Peer Observation of Teaching in a School of Architecture & Design’, Architecture Media Policy Society (AMPS), A Focus on Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, Research in the Modern Academy (Conference).
- Wisotsky, M. (2021) Extractive Architectures: Ore Bodies Over Human Bodies, Paper for Emerging Architectural Research (P.E.A.R), Issue #8: GLOBAL/LOCAL.
Max has been a dissertation supervisor for the MArch (Part II) dissertation module Special Study, since 2023.
