Lectures

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 Le [more]

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 [more]

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 [more]

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 [more]

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 [more]

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, So [more]

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 [more]

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. Be [more]

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-pla [more]

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 [more]

  Care is essential for life and survivance. The social and ecological fabric of existence is woven by care. But how is care being cared for in political and economic terms?  How is care und [more]

Das moderne Museum verfügte machtvoll über die Dinge des Lebens und die Phänomene des Planeten, die es zu Dingen und Phänomenen des Museums machte. Das Museum entzog die Dinge den Lebenszusammenh [more]

Lecture at Site and Place – Seminar of Mechtild Widrich, Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, March 19, 2024 The Anthropocene resulted from the [more]

The lecture was part of a panel at the CAA College Art Association Conference 2024. The panel was convened by Basia Sliwinska.  What does contemporary transnational feminist resistance look like? [more]

Lecture in the Moravian Gallery, Brno, February 28, 2024 Elke Krasny, who is based at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, is a leading European expert in curatorial theory, and in her research, curato [more]

The lecture Interdependencies and Care in Pandemic Times was given at the Symposium EscReturn: Scripts for Degrowth, Buenvivir and Living Otherwise, part of the Panel Nets of Interdependence: pra [more]

Lecture in the Situating Architecture Lecture Series at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, March 2024 curated by the Architectural History MA Programme Directors Professor Barbara Penne [more]

In order to build the world otherwise we need to learn how to draw otherwise. In order to draw otherwise we need to learn how to imagine otherwise. The symposium DRAWING OTHERWISE imagines architectur [more]

Not Beyond Repair – Contribution to Field Notes on Repair: 4, 2024 If capitalism has taught people one thing, it is a specific understanding of made things’ lifespans: sell-by dates, use-by da [more]

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, acade [more]

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 [more]

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 do [more]

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 addre [more]

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 clo [more]

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 environmen [more]

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 transdiscipli [more]

Der Maßstab diente der Vermessung des Raums auf dem Planeten Erde. Mittels des Maßstabs wurde der Raum beherrschbar, in unterschiedlichen Größenverhältnissen darstellbar. In ideengeschichtlicher [more]

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 practic [more]

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 Main [more]

Reflections on Urban Curating, Decolonizing Urban Memory  contributed to Heritage Days 2022 in Brussels, to the outdoor lab and co-creation workshop in front of the Pavilion of Human Passions, bu [more]

Vortrag bei einer Konferenz des DIFU Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik in Berlin: Kuratierte Innenstädte. Resssortübergreifende Zusammenarbeit in der kulturellen Stadtentwicklung Inhaltlich ging es [more]

What does it mean to live in an Infected Planet? ​​How one can learn to think care at all scales, from the microbial to the planetary, from the personal to the political? How can we embrace self c [more]

Keynote Lecture at the Symposium, Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics, and Ambiguity. Transferring Research into Academic Teaching, FNHW Academy of Art and Design, [more]

This workshop contributed to Avtonomi Akadimia run by artist and activist Joulia Strauss and took place in Athens in the Akadimia Platonos, now known as Akadimia Platonos Jungle, in 2022.The global Co [more]

A discussion with Elke Krasny (Vienna), Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch (Vienna), and Mechtild Widrich (Chicago). If monuments are public expressions of what societies care to remember, they also have [more]

This lecture argues that we need to collectively raise awareness for the modern infrastructural condition which affects individual life and the planet as a whole. It situates infrastructure at the cru [more]

Keynote Lecture at the FEINART Summer School How do we learn how to mourn an exhausted planet through artistic practices and collective rituals? How can care and healing be performed in eco-social art [more]

Der Vortrag Architektur als Infrastruktur des Sorgetragens: an einem anderen Architekturverständnis arbeiten war ein Beitrag zu dem Panel Haltung. Die Fragen nach der Haltung in der Architektur wurde [more]

An online debate on Architecture of Radical Care organized and hosted by Narodowy Instytut Architektury i Urbanistyki Dorota Lesniak and Elke Krasny in conversation on complicated, complex, and urgent [more]

Elke Krasny’s lecture thinks about dimensions of care in architecture, opening complex and difficult questions of power, ethics, and futurity. What can we learn from revisiting past solutions to bui [more]

Care is critical to survivable and living with a deeply wounded planet. Architecture is implicated in, responsible for, responsible to, and entangled with producing conditions for continued livability [more]

The lecture Living with a Wounded Planet contributed to the transnational conference Visualizing Care Imaginaries & Infrastructures. Organized in the context of the Revaluing Care Net at Duke Univ [more]

Monumente repräsentieren, wie Gesellschaften Erinnerungen im öffentlichen Raum präsent machen. Der Vortrag ist mit Fragestellungen befasst, die für eine kritische Untersuchung von erinnerungspolit [more]

Scales of Care: Affective Ecologies and Reproductive Urbanism Starting from the observation of care fatigue and environmental exhaustion, take back care focuses on socio-ecological justice. Exhaustion [more]

How can, and will, architects and architecture respond to present-day conditions under neoliberal capitalism based on the resource-extraction and labor-exploitation?  How does response-able archi [more]

The panel Unseen Realities focuses on invisible work and authorship in the everyday life of architectural produc-tion – whose realities, whose histories? We critically question the structures an [more]

Das zweitätige Symposium The Future of Cities. Not for Granted, in der Halle 14 in Leipzig, widmete sich der Endlichkeit der Ressourcen, Spekulation, Digitalisierung und Globalisierung, welche d [more]

Krasny, Elke. ‘A Caring Revolution. Working for Planetary Responsibility.’ In Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice, edited by Jeanne van Heeswijk, Maria Hlavajova and Rachael Rakes, 213-219, [more]

2021 — The Modern Museum an Anthropocene Institution: On the Birth of Man and the Death of Nature September 23, Flanders Architecture Insitute, Antwerpen The modern cultural institution of the natio [more]

Oslo Architecture Triennale  2 October, 2019, 16:00 – 18:00 ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Maridalsveien 3, Oslo Organiser ROM and Oslo National Academy of the Arts With the general neo [more]