How can architecture and building be re-imaginedcollectively so they become partof feminist recovery? How caninfrastructures of care beimagined collectively in order tobe developed otherwise?

Guest Lecture in Tatiana Bilbao’s Advanced Design Studio: Domestic Realities, Urban Utopias, “Throughout the course, students will engage with leading voices in architecture and urbanism through lectures and discussions. Guest speakers may include Elke Krasny, Zaida Muxí, Elisa Iturbe, Anna Puigjaner, Cristina Gamboa, and Maria Scheherezade Giudici” 

https://www.architecture.yale.edu/courses/25006-advanced-design-studio-domestic-realities-urban-utopias

 

 

Care has emerged as a key concern to beaddressed by cities to respond tomultiple local and planetary crises and to meet changing social and environmental care needs. Urban infrastructures are central to theprovision and maintenance of urban cares.https://www.home.forumrozwojumiast.poznan.pl/6/

 

 

Kolonien in Europa als Armutsbekämpfung
Garten-Arbeit, Subsistenzwirtschaft, Kultivierung von Land beruhten auf dem kolonialen Modell von Plantagen als Organisation von Land und Arbeit

https://uol.de/kunst/projekte-und-veranstaltungen/vorlesungen-und-tagungen/re-lektuere-des-gartens-queere-oekologien-kolonialismus-gewalt

 

https://formdesigncenter.com/en/program/building-care-feminist-recovery-and-planetary-healing

 
 
How can architecture and urbanism contribute to nurturing and repairing a broken planet? As part of the program for The Great Repair Moves North, Alstra Byggforum and Form/Design Center offer a lecture and discussion evening. Invited guest is the writer, cultural theorist, urban researcher Elke Krasny, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and 2014 City of Vienna Visiting Professor at the Vienna University of Technology.

Elke’s talk will offer an alternative vision in architecture and urbanism that focuses on caring for a broken planet. With roots in a radical care perspective that always starts from the given, we ask the question how can architects take care of and critically consider the risks of carewashing in a feminist way?

https://formdesigncenter.com/en/program/building-care-feminist-recovery-and-planetary-healing

https://formdesigncenter.com/en/program/building-care-feminist-recovery-and-planetary-healing

https://formdesigncenter.com/en/program/building-care-feminist-recovery-and-planetary-healing

How to transform our cities from feminism? Feminist urbanism critically analyses how power dynamics and gender roles influence the design and management of cities and urban spaces — an approach that challenges and transforms the spatial hierarchies which have historically privileged the needs of men and have excluded women and other marginalised groups. This encounter sees theorist and curator Elke Krasny converse with architect Izaskun Chinchilla on feminist ways of reimagining the present and future of the city.   

Elke Krasny has developed an interdisciplinary approach which encompasses architecture, urbanism, feminism, curatorial practices and ecology. She studies how feminism can transform urban and architectural spaces, the “ecologies of care”, a term she employs to refer to forms of making the city based on the support of community networks and proximity, and the relationship between social and spatial justice. Izaskun Chinchilla, for her part, has reflected from theory and professional practice on the need to build a more human, inclusive and sustainable city, placing care and well-being at the centre of urban planning. Both authors maintain that any possible future of the city must depend on the feminisation of the design and life in urban space.

https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/activities/feminist-urbanism-care-and-conflicts

Participants

Izaskun Chinchilla (Madrid, 1975) is an architect, researcher and professor of architecture. She is the founder and director of the Izaskun Chinchilla Architects studio, where she explores recyclable materials, organic structures and the integration of nature in built environments. She is a Professor of Architectural Practice at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and the CEU San Pablo University (Madrid), and has published the works La ciudad de los cuidados (Catarata, 2020), Cosmowomen: places and constellations (Silvana Editoriale, 2021) andThe Caring City: Health, Economy, and Environment (Actar, 2022).

Elke Krasny (Vienna, 1969) is a cultural theorist, curator and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She has written theoretical contributions on care in the context of cities, art and curatorial practices in different publications, for instance Curating as Caring (Sternberg Press, 2020) and Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice: Materialisms, Activisms, Dialogues, Pedagogies, Projections (AADR – Art Architecture Design Research, 2017). With Angelika Fitz, she also curated the exhibitions Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (2019) and Hands-On Urbanism 1850–2012. The Right to Green (2012) at Architekturzentrum, Vienna.

 

Feminist Infrastructural Critique: Life-Affirming Practices Against Capital, published in July 2024, is an 74th issue of FKW journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture. The editors, Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg and Claudia Lomoschitz, introduce the notion of feminist infrastructural critique and of the issue as a whole: fourteen contributions by thirty-six authors speak about their activist feminist infrastructural practices in a wide range of geographies ranging, among others, from the Brazilian Amazon to different cities in Europe, Pakistan, the Seychelles, Syria, Puerto Rico. Taken together they show that infrastructure can be practiced otherwise and resists capital’s colonization of nature and bodies that is built on infrastructure. The contributions focus on the life-affirming dimensions of infrastructural practices foregrounding that use, maintenance, and repair are key to resisting, and overcoming, infrastructural violence and injustice. Contributors Urška Jurman and Vida Rucli, both part of the group Ecologies of Care, will speak about their specific work on sites under pressure in Ljubljana and Topolò/Topolove respectively.

https://mestozensk.org/en/event/feminist-infrastructural-critique-life-affirming-practices-against-capital

 

 

In the twenty-first century there is a turn tocare in architecture, infrastructures, urbanismand spatial practices. Architecture, infrastructures, and spatial practices arecentral to the provision and continuity ofcare. Care has emerged as a key concern in the response to planetary crises, crises, tomeeting changing social and environmental care needs, and to work toward crisispreparedness. 

https://www.atut.fi/atut2024-keynote-speakers

 

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.

https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/malkit-shoshan-tatiana-bilbao-and-elke-krasny-building-with-care-feminist-perspectives-on-design-in-conflict/

 

 

 

 

The notion of urban curating as a distinct and newurban practice first emerged at the turn of thecentury. The term was introduced by urban plannersand architects to envision alternatives to master-planning. At the time and for disciplines operatingoutside of the museum and the art world, curatingheld the promise of alternative approaches to urban planning. At the same time, independent culturalworkers including independent curators, in particular anti-patriarchal, anti-colonial, feminist, and queer practitioners, developed substantial critiques of curating highlighting that in the modern museum is implicated in colonial epistemic and material violence and that contemporary curating isakin to gatekeeping in neocolonial conditions of the globalized art world.
Given these historical implications, how cancurating – curare/care – be turned into criticalanti-colonial, anti-patriarchal, feminist, queer urban practice? And how does curatingaddress social and ecological urban injustice, the afterlife of colonial and patriarchal violence, and, more recently, the condition ofa wounded, damaged, broken planet and theongoing climate ruination caused byextractivism, exploitation, petro-masculinity, and authoritarian rule.  

Crafting Public Space: So far, the words craft or crafting have not beenused in relation to public space. Commonly craft is  associated with making things, in particularmaking things with one’s hands, things such asfurniture, pottery, or textiles.  Activities ofcrafting are held to require knowledge and skillsthat comes from experience. We also use words like statecraft, defined as the art of conducting the affairsof government or warcraft, defined as the art of war and the skill and knowledge of military operations. 

https://www.gu.se/en/event/elke-krasny-crafting-public-space-oppet-invigningstal-av-symposium-och-utstallning