Building with Care: Feminist Perspectives on Design in Conflict; Senior Loeb Scholar Lecture: Malkit Shoshan, Tatiana Bilbao, and Elke Krasny Harvard University Graduate School of Design September 24, 2024
Our words have the power to cultivate our imagination and actions. By extension, they shape our world. Too often, our relationships with each other and the world are framed through the lens of war. Beyond the over 120 militarized conflicts globally, the word “war” is also used to capture our collective resources to mobilize radical changes – “war on poverty,” “war on crime,” “war on obesity,” “war on climate change,” and some still wage what is called a “war on women.” What if we remove the word “war” and look at our world with care? How can we center care not merely as an abstract idea but as a pragmatic process and ethos of collective well-being? Can we change our world through care and nurture?
This event will feature three short lectures by Malkit Shoshan, Elke Krasny, and Tatiana Bilbao, showcasing work that addresses systemic violence related to gender, race, and class disparity and exploring ways to integrate care into architecture and urbanism from a feminist perspective. The event is part of an ongoing conversation among the three, driven by questions about how to envision building a world aligned with anti-colonial and anti-capitalist viewpoints that remain marginalized in design.
