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Ecologies Economies Technologies & Feminisms Schedule Architecture & Feminisms Schedule ARCHI- TECTURE ECOLOGIES ECONOMIES TECHNOLOGIES & FEMINISMS SCHEDULE 13th International AHRA Conference www.architecturefeminisms.org KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) November 17—19, 2016 Stockholm, Sweden Architecture & Feminisms Schedule All venues: See map on last page 13th international AHRA conference November 17–19, 2016 AHRA 2016 Host: Critical Studies in Architecture School of Architecture, KTH Stockholm AHRA 2016 Convenors: Hélène Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson, Helena Mattsson, Exhibition Karin Reisinger, Meike Schalk A 123 STYLES strand curated by Presentations MYCKET (Mariana Alves Silva, Katarina Bonnevier, Thérèse Kristiansson) Exhibition The AHRA 2016 international conference is funded by a Swedish Research Council A 108 A 124 FORMAS grant Keynotes www.formas.se/en & presentations Presentations Graphic design by Sara Kaaman Installations Black photo studio Main entrance Osquars Backe 5 School of Architecture map KTH School of Architecture Osquars backe 5 Lecture halls on entrance level exhibitions EXHIBITION INSTALLATIONS The Family Dinner. Revealing Work. Interrogating THROUGHOUT THE THROUGHOUT THE Hanna Wildow artefacts to (re)view histories of CONFERENCE: CONFERENCE: Location: Entrance level feminist architectural practice. KTH School of Architecture Julia Dwyer & Jos Boys Suzanne Lacy’s International Things that Cannot be Said. (exhibition component) Location: A124, Entrance level Dinner Party in Feminist Claudia Roselli KTH School of Architecture Curatorial Thought. Location: Entrance level In Search of the Living Heritage Elke Krasny KTH School of Architecture after Marie Hoeg and Bolette Nuestras Madres (Our Mothers). Location: Entrance level Berg. Die bösen Mösen IDA (Estella Burga, Macarena KTH School of Architecture Finding Memory. (Hannah Goldstein Dusant & Isabel Löfgren) Nadja Hjorton & Katarina Winter & Thérèse Kristiansson) Location: A124, Entrance level Location: Entrance level Location: Entrance level KTH School of Architecture KTH School of Architecture KTH School of Architecture Overpainting as Temporal Drag. a Walk, a (S)pace, a Gaze. taking place 8 Sophie Read & Tijana Stevanović Goedele De Caluwe — interstitial breakfast. Location: Dome of Visions & Thomas Montulet Jos Boys, Julia Dwyer, Teresa Location: Entrance level Hoskyns, Katie Lloyd Thomas, KTH School of Architecture Helen Stratford. Location: A108, (exhibition component) Entrance level KTH School of Architecture Architecture & Feminisms Schedule thursday 17 november 11.00 —13.00 13.00 (Room: A108) Registration at the entry level KTH Architecture WELCOME from the AHRA 2016 Organising Committee. Katja Grillner: A Brief History of FATALE 11.45 —12.45 and Critical Studies in Architecture KTH. STYLES INTERVENTION (Room: A124) Malin Åberg Wennerholm Nuestras Madres (Our Mothers). (KTH Architecture) IDA (Estella Burga, Macarena Dusant & Isabel Löfgren) 13.30 —15.00 KEYNOTE PANEL (Room: A108) Parlour: Women, Architecture, Activism. Lori Brown (chair). Parlour (Karen Burns, Justine Clark, Naomi Stead, Gill Matthewson). Introduced by: Hélène Frichot 15.00—15.30 FIKA (COFFEE BREAK) Performance: When Program is the Enemy of Function. Location: Black photo studio, KTH School of Architecture Simona Castricum (performed both Thursday and Friday) 15.30 —17.30 PARALLEL PANELS 01 Room: A108 Room: A123 Room: A124 Room: Dome of Visions Borderlands Fragile Ecologies Chair: Karen Burns Chair: Justine Clark Chair: MYCKET Chair: Hélène Frichot ‘We’d start smashing down An Architect to Serve the Queer Undergrowth. Delay & Care: Towards an walls’: Squatting, feminism and Country. Gertrud Olsson Joe Crowdy aesthetics of encounter. built environment activism in Alberto Altés 1970s London. Christine Wall Architecture as a Method It’s so Serious Doing the Twist. of Self-realisation: Florence Johanna Leah Geldard Fragile Monsters & Radical Love: Feminisms in Conflict. Fulton Hobson in 1912. Tanja Thus strangely are our worlds Maria Ärlemo Poppelreuter & Ryan McBride Rehearsals — Eight Acts on the entwined. Rolf Hughes Politics of Listening. Sophia Amateur Adaptions: Situating Itsuko Hasegawa and ‘The Wiberg & Petra Bauer Fragile & Violent: Tactics of participation through the hybrid Feminism of Architecture’. interruption. Sepideh Karami identities of the creative citizen. Thomas Daniell When Program is the Enemy of James Longfield Function. Simona Castricum Apples & the Law: Variations on Margarita. Gabriela Garcia de a theme. Per Nilsson A Narrative of Belfast: Filmic Cortazar & Alejandra Celedon essay as method in architectural Aedín & the Rope: The skin of research. Laura Cushnahan the circus. Aedín Walsh 17.30 — 17.45 SHORT BREAK 17.45 —18.20 19. 3 0 (Room: A108) (Location: Entrance level, KTH School of Architecture) Amanda Fröler & Aysegul Alayat of Kvinnors Byggforum; Presentation of AHRA Architecture and Culture Journal, and Critiques Publications EXHIBITION OPENING (Igea Troiani) & Publication approach of the conference Suzanne Lacy’s International Dinner Party (Hélène Frichot & Karin Reisinger) in Feminist Curatorial Thought. Elke Krasny 18.30 —19.30 WITH RECEPTION DRINKS KEYNOTE LECTURE (Room: A108) BOOK LAUNCH Gerdy Troost and the Führer’s Rooms. Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice: Materialities, activisms, Despina Stratigakos dialogues, pedagogies, projections. Introduced by: Helena Mattsson Meike Schalk, Thérèse Kristiansson, Ramia Mazé, eds. Architecture & Feminisms Schedule taking place Interstitial Breakfast: November 18 2016 8:00 – 9:00 There is an urgent need for “rethinking the social in architecture” in late modernistic In 2001 the art/architecture collective taking place hosted a breakfast at the University of North London posing housing areas. In relationship to that I’m our own questions about architecture and feminism. Exactly 15 years later we asked Architecture & Feminisms interested in posing the question of how delegates what are the relevant questions for architecture and feminism today? How can we challenge the fundamental male feministic city planning could develop a We invite you to discuss them over breakfast. dominance in the building industry (that method not only involving the citizens in www.takingplace.org.uk is, as the architecture profession becomes How do we reconstruct a legacy of women more gender balanced, the building industry social pre-studies, but bringing the process working in architecture? How do we make at large is characterised by inertia and non- further into the design- and conventional Why do we keep having to relearn our past? them more visible and present in our transparent structures), and what could be planning phase? How are feminist principles manifested in discourse about architecture? How do we the result of a balanced field of practice and built works of architecture? make their concerns heard? production? There is a need for new types of social places that could change the public sphere, that in How can we best address the generational What are the ways in which architecture as a many examples are dominated by men - but differences between definitions of & attitudes How is a feminist architecture to develop discipline participates in intersectionality, or certainly not are attractive to women. toward the word “feminism” so that it may be responsible and caring approaches to the multiple frameworks of identity at play a word that joins, rather than separates, all transforming/making the world in such a way in the social field? Is that a term that our Women do not have time to spend in public; ages? that it will welcome and host all living beings discipline is specially equipped to handle or is and all existing, imaginable and still-to-be- they are occupied in domestic life. Is it How can the role of feminine playful spaces it woefully limited in that regard? invented forms of life? possible to create ‘hybrid’ spaces with another contribute to developing new forms of type of necessary actives, taking more Is a nomadic feminist practice that actually representation in waste urban spaces? Can feminism survive resource conflicts? important roles in everyday life in comparison affirms different notions of spatiality and to cafés, shops etc.? One example is Stepwells What is the framework for sexual ethics subjectivities possible within architectural in India. Could we mix playgrounds with If we want to correct the underrepresentation in a socio-cultural environment that can practice? restaurants, laundry with cafés? Or could of women in architecture’s most visible interrogate gender equity, privilege and we take this spatial challenge even further? practices, how do we avoid adopting heteronormativity? masculine norms of success as guidelines for Could a method be developed to give a strong women’s attitudes in the workplace? How do women redefine their practice? motif that collaboration between feminism and architecture generates an important tool Women Architects are often not mentioned How can feminist thought approach and for “rethinking the social in architecture”? in literature concerning architectural history improve current housing and make it more socially inclusive? and/or theory. If they are mentioned than How should we raise the question of social often in passing or as collaborators and wives Simply: How to and why make feminism a and environmental justice to become a of male architects. Should it be a goal to mainstream topic in architecture? mainstream political objective? ‘rewrite’ such history books towards a more inclusive history of architecture
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