Lectures

Contributing a lecture to the keynote panel of the gathering on pedagogies of disarmament at TU Braunschweig, September 12, 

A gathering about climate and politics, architecture and ethics, academia and activism, networks and futures, models and utopias, being critical and being naive, transformations and resistance, rebellion and hope.With Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux, Markus Bader, Henriette Bertram, Camillo Boano, Cristina Cerulli, Burcu Daglayan, Simone De Iacobis, Suryagayathri Devi, Paula Erstmann, Manuel Falkenhahn, Lukas Feireiss, Rui Ferreira Do Santos, Kim Förster, Jan Gerits, Sabine Hansmann, Gabu Heindl, Beata Hemer, Jan-Holger Hennies, Arne Herbote, Jule Hillgärtner, Noor Khader, Valentina Karga, Florian Kossak, Elke Krasny, Bernadette Krejs, Franca Lopez Barbera, Diana Lucas-Drogan, María Mazzanti, Louise Nguyen, Hanna Noller, Ayscha Omar, Jasmine Parsley, Ben Pohl, Anthony Powis, Sebastian Quack, Anna Richter, Lara Roth, Rui Santos, Lisa Schwochow, Christina Serifi, Sumugan Sivanesan, Ulrike Steven, Yue Sun, Ayat Tarik, Jeremy Till, Renée Tribble, Henrike Wenzel.

https://gtas-braunschweig.de/interacting/detail/this-that

 

Contributing a keynote lecture to the conference: LEARNINGS/UNLEARNINGS: ENVIRONMENTAL PEDAGOGIES, PLAY, POLICIES, AND SPATIAL DESIGN, on September 7, 2024 

https://lnkd.in/dnuJ3m9n

With Keynote addresses by Nicola Antaki, Anna Keune, Elke Krasny, MYCKET, Ashraf Salama, and Henrika L.M. Ylirisku; Färgfabriken, Liljeholmen/Stockholm, 5-7 September 2024.

The pedagogy of cruelty, which Rita Segato speaks of in order to analyze modern colonial patriarchy, uses the regime of capital to transform care into a source of cheap labor and the planet into a resource of cheap nature. This pedagogy of cruelty is central to capitalist warfare. The exhaustion of care and the depletion of nature are effects of this cruelty. Even though there is today growing awareness of the critical condition of the planet the pedagogy of cruelty continues to wage war on care and war on nature on nature. Exhaustion and depletion are planetary wounds in need of care and healing.A feminist analysis of this cruel pedagogy of patriarchy raises the question of what learning with care can do in order to imagine being with a wounded planet otherwise. Being with beings who are wounded requires to understand their condition and to learn what it means to care. Care therefore is in and of itself an ongoing process of learning, unlearning, relearning. This lecture focuses on recent feminist practices in architecture, the arts, curating, and urbanism that are bringing into existence ways of being with a wounded planet. The ways in which these practices resist the death-making pedagogy of cruelty and insist on the liveliness of life-making despite of it all inspires hope for learning with care in order to be with a wounded planet otherwise.

 

The social fabric of existence is woven by care. But how is care actually being cared for? And who cares for care, politically, socially, epistemically? How is care understood as knowledge? And how does knowing our relations to the world change if knowing starts from the relations of care? In the name of care, nation states have promoted the colonial supremacist project of patriarchy. In the name of freedom, so-called second wave feminism identified caring labors as burden hindering women’s creativity, intellectual productivity, and economic mobility. Tracing how modern ontologies of gender were linked to mammalian epistemologies and their political economy of care essentialism this lecture asks what it would take to free care from the patriarchal violence of domination and extraction. This lecture asks if we can learn to imagine care otherwise and looks at activism, art, and theory providing hope, resistance, and endurance to collectively imagine and practice the freedom to care.

https://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/program/gondoskodo-gyakorlatok-szimpozium-vigyazat-torekeny-handle-care-cimu-kiallitas-zaroesemenye

The 2023 Architecture Humanities Research Conference, AHRA, is dedicated to: Situated Ecologies of Care.
Elke Krasny’s keynote lecture “Living with a wounded planet. On building care” will address how historical acts of care violence and structural carelessness of capitalist-colonial-patriarchal regimes of modernity and their spatialization through architecture and the built environment have wounded the planet. Today, humans and all other living beings inhabit the air and the water and the earth and the infrastructures and the buildings and the technologies of a deeply wounded planet. At the same time, the lecture will address that architecture as a primary form of care has not only defined the spatialization of care and reproductive labors according to patriarchal-colonial-capitalist logics, but also has the potential to create and provide an emancipatory and transformative care praxis. Introducing the notion of scales of care, the lecture examines how scales of care can be understood through feminist epistemologies-as-embodied practices and thus become scales of concern, curiosity, cure, and worry that have to be brought into the reproductive, regenerative, and restorative capacities of architecture for everyday lived lives and for beginning to heal a deeply wounded planet, we are part of.

Information on the AHRA conference can be found here: https://ahra2023.org

Urban change throughout the 1980s and 1990s was marked by processes of deindustrialization. Cities, and entire regions, suffered a decline in productive industrial activity. As factories or plants closed down, a new type of architecture moved in with style. Urban regeneration was premised on the promise of the icon or the landmark. Ranging from corporate headquarters to museums, universities to football stadiums, opera houses to convention centres, markets to airports, architecture served the global economy by promoting iconic experiences. How is such experience produced, and, most importantly, how is it reproduced on the daily level? This lecture examines such iconic moves in architecture as they complexly interconnect urban regeneration and daily reproduction. Looking at the effective and affective dimensions of such iconic moves of architecture under neoliberal capitalism, we raise the questions what urban regeneration means and how it is maintained through reproduction. Focusing on the material dimension of architecture, the economy of production and the economy of reproduction are considered as equally relevant.

Iconic Moves: Regeneration + Reproduction
Elke Krasny

On the heels of their recent collaboration, Architecture for the Future (MIT, 2023), Yasmeen Lari and Elke Krasny will reflect on the many responsibilities of those working within the built environment, the need to recognize new and pluralistic forms of spatial practice, and how to address the interconnectedness of socio-ecological crisis at the planetary scale.

Announcement

The lecture on Critical Care. Architecture for a Broken Planet will contribute to the panel Arquitectura para la vida colectiva.ProgramRe-Imaginar el Futuro Feminista — Una discusión transdisciplinaria acerca del futuro de los cuidados y políticas del tiempo, violencias, derechos sexuales y reproductivos, y la feminización de la política. 

Program

https://bogota.gov.co/internacional/bogota-sera-la-sede-de-foro-mundial-de-ciudades-y-del-women-deliver

Der Maßstab diente der Vermessung des Raums auf dem Planeten Erde. Mittels des Maßstabs wurde der Raum beherrschbar, in unterschiedlichen Größenverhältnissen darstellbar. In ideengeschichtlicher und lebensweltlicher Hinsicht gilt der Maßstab als soziale Norm, als Richtlinie. Dieser Vortrag geht von Maßstäben der Sorge aus, um Architektur als planetarische Praxis zu befragen. Von welchen Maßstäben geht Architektur aus? Welche Maßstäbe der Sorge werden durch Architektur hervorgebracht und durchgesetzt? Mit welchen Maßstäben kann Architektur zu sorgetragender planetarischer Praxis werden

Announcement

The lecture Radicalizing Care. Maintenance as Resistance contributed to the Art and Care Study Day at the Cambridge Festival in 2022. My lecture focused on how maintenance can be understood as practicing resistance with-in and against extractive conditions of care under compulsory neoliberalism. Art and Care presents a growing international network aiming at collecting, sharing, and learning from best practices from the perspectives of creative research and care ethics, in physical and digital realms. More specifically these will be discussed in terms of impact in society through social responsibility, mutual support, and cooperation, as applied to the care for the environment, society, heritage and art. The exchange will aim at consolidating the new post-disciplinary context for Care Ethics and Creative Research.The event was led by Dr. Elena Cologni, Dr. Merel Visse and HR Mag Eveline Wandl-Vogt, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-care-study-day-resumed-cambridge-festival-2022-tickets-275429606367?keep_tld=1

Image: ‘Mother’s Tools’, Elena Cologni (2018, 1 of 4: wood, steel, custom-made fabric labels, artist’s mother’s embroidery kit, 20cmx20cm each);

What can a solidary and needs-oriented living and working together look like from the perspective of care? How do we fight for the Care Revolution? May 12 is International Nurses Day. The lecture Maintenance as Resistance – Resistance as Maintenance was a contribution to Congress of Care – Kongress der Sorge. Ein Vernetzungstag für Arbeitskämpfe und feministische Initiativen anlässlich des Tages der Pflege am 12.5. With the Congress of Care, HAU opens its doors to feminist initiatives, current labor struggles in the field of care, and activists from urban society. For one day, HAU2 will become a place for the exchange of experiences: In workshops, table discussions and panel discussions, spaces of possibility for broad queerfeminist networking and solidarity will be created. After two years of the Corona pandemic and the successful labor struggle of the Berlin hospital movement, it is clear that there is no way back to so-called “normality.” The congress is a workshop to work out and discuss together feminist alternatives to a society based on competition and oriented towards profits. Neighbors, colleagues and friends are invited to join activists, feminist theorists and strikers from the Berlin hospital movement in a thought process. 

https://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/programm/pdetail/kongress-der-sorge