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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 (, Justine Clark, , ). 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, 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 taking place 8 – interstitial breakfast Schedule representation in waste urban spaces? contribute to developing new forms of How can the role of feminine playful spaces many challenges. and activism to compete in a profession with and architecture needs persuasive arguments has caught on. How to integrate feminism practitioners or to the public in a way that increased their work, it does not flow to Although feminist scholars have greatly urban space? [Are there] Feminine ways of occupying ages? a word that joins, rather than separates, all toward the word “feminism” so that it may be differences between definitions of & attitudes How can we best address the generational built works of architecture? How are feminist principles manifested in Why do we keep having to relearn our past? taking place Interstitial Breakfast: November 18 2016 8:00 – 9:00 www.takingplace.org.uk We invite you to discuss them over breakfast. delegates what are the relevant questions for architecture and feminism today? our own questions about architecture and feminism. Exactly 15 y ears later we asked Architecture & Feminisms In 2001 the art/architecture collective taking place hosted a breakfast at University of North London posing networked world? ‘situatedness’ in an increasingly mobile and How does architecture address the need for feminism? might this diversity mean for architecture and Wright) Is this the case today, and if so, what differences.’ (Hilde Heynen and Gwendolen to include and embrace a spectrum of has shifted from oppositional dichotomies ‘[Architectural and , arguably] books obsolete? inclusive history of architecture or are such ‘rewrite’ such history books towards a more of male architects. Should it be a goal to often in passing or as collaborators and wives and/or theory. If they are mentioned than in literature concerning architectural history Women Architects are often not mentioned women’s attitudes in the workplace? masculine norms of success as guidelines for practices, how do we avoid adopting of ’s most visible If we want to correct the underrepresentation it woefully limited in that regard? discipline is specially equipped to handle or in the social field? Is that a term our the multiple frameworks of identity at play discipline participates in intersectionality, or What are the ways in which architecture as a make their concerns heard? discourse about architecture? How do we them more visible and present in our working in architecture? How do we make How do we reconstruct a legacy of women to maximize their profit? planning office and not from builders looking where the initiative comes from town idea of an inclusive and sustainable society, city planning and architecture is based on the How can we move towards a situation when actually be proud of?! building more inclusive societies that we can more active role in what spaces we create, commissions from the builders, and take a where we are passive executioners of How can we move away from a situation environmentally sustainable society? where we can contribute to a socially and How can the architect reclaim a role spaces we create? structures, and how they play out in the where there is room for analyses of power How can we carve out a space in practice

socially inclusive? improve current housing and make it more How can feminist thought approach and How do women redefine their practice? heteronormativity? interrogate gender equity, privilege and in a socio-cultural environment that can What is the framework for sexual ethics Can feminism survive resource conflicts? equal rights? (feminist spaces, practices, etc), or is it about Is it about the articulation of difference architecture? our everyday practice and ethics within How can feminism continue to affect mainstream topic in architecture? Simply: How to and why make feminism a Architecture? Feminist issues totally irrelevant to How do we engage those who consider within mainstream structures? feminist theory in architecture to find space tools and modes of practice informed by To what extent is it possible/desirable for pre existing built environment? address the patriarchal nature of much As our society shifts in values, how do you and who can make supply decisions? In which context and scale is it possible to act schools? feminist teaching and research in architecture liberalisation of universities impact on How does the privatisation and neo invented forms of life? and all existing, imaginable still-to-be- that it will welcome and host all living beings transforming/making the world in such a way responsible and caring approaches to How is a feminist architecture to develop production? the result of a balanced field practice and transparent structures), and what could be at large is characterised by inertia and non- more gender balanced, the building industry is, as the architecture profession becomes dominance in the building industry (that How can we challenge the fundamental male practice? subjectivities possible within architectural affirms different notions of spatiality and Is a nomadic feminist practice that actually able to include? groups so change the norm? To exclude to be Do public planning need feminist separatist politically unstable times? architecture engage effectively with our How can feminism, within and about, space? Is there a sexual specificity in relation to mainstream political objective? and environmental justice to become a How should we raise the question of social careers in architecture? ensure more women are able to develop their support for women in the profession to How can we improve wages and childcare profession? and research into the architectural How to implement feminist work practices activism? discipline but without its differentiation as architecture, as an active component of the infiltrated in the conceptualisation of How could the concerns of feminism be for “rethinking the social in architecture”? and architecture generates an important tool motif that collaboration between feminism Could a method be developed to give strong we take this spatial challenge even further? restaurants, laundry with cafés? Or could in India. Could we mix playgrounds with to cafés, shops etc.? One example is Stepwells important roles in everyday life comparison type of necessary actives, taking more possible to create ‘hybrid’ spaces with another they are occupied in domestic life. Is it Women do not have time to spend in public; certainly not are attractive to women. many examples are dominated by men - but that could change the public sphere, in There is a need for new types of social places planning phase? further into the design- and conventional social pre-studies, but bringing the process method not only involving the citizens in feministic city planning could develop a interested in posing the question of how housing areas. In relationship to that I’m social in architecture” late modernistic There is an urgent need for “rethinking the Architecture & Feminisms Schedule friday 18 november

8.00 — 9.00 (Room: A108) Jos Boys, Julia Dwyer, Teresa Hoskyns, TAKING PLACE 8 — INTERSTITIAL BREAKFAST Katie Lloyd Thomas, Helen Stratford

9.00 — §11.00 PARALLEL PANELS 02

Room: A108 Room: A123 Room: A124 Room: Dome of Visions Artefacts

Chair: Jonathan Metzger Chair: Naomi Stead Chair: MYCKET Chair: Christina Pech

Kisses and Romance: Tr(o)ue Tectonics. Laura Harty Revealing Work: Interrogating Gentlemen’s Club for Ladies: On infrastructural love. artefacts to (re)view histories of Gender, architecture, and the Urban Sonographies: Art, Olga Tengvall feminist architectural practice. Colony Club of New York City. architecture and feminist & Hannes Frykholm Julia Dwyer & Jos Boys H. Horatio Joyce strategies to visualize and Feminist Architectural redefine space. Objectified Interior. A Feminist in Disguise? Atmosphere 2016. Amelia Vilaplana Gem Barton & Harriet Harriss Sibyl Moholy-Nagy’s histories Andrea Gibson of architecture and its environ- Images of Desire: A guide to Bunna Without Borders: Coffee/ ment. Hilde Heynen Climate Models. shopping. Helen Runting, making as a relational space. James Soane Fredrik Torisson Hannah le Roux Women and Power in the History & Rutger Sjögrim of Modern Architecture: The Unleashing Other Atmospheres. Practising Ageing Differently case of the CIAM Congresses, Lisa Maria Enzenhofer Situated Knowledges and (The spatial possibilities 1928—1937. Rixt Hoekstra Shifting Grounds: The reality of textual play). effect of low-resolution imagery. Sophie Handler Women in the Making of the Aikaterini Antonopoulou Modern House: How architect Léonie Geisendorf’s female clients compare to male archi- tect/client stories. Charlie Gullström

11.00 — 11.30 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)

11.30 — 13.00 PARALLEL PANELS 03

Room: A108 Room: A123 Room: A124 Room: Dome of Visions

Chair: Helen Runting Chair: Catharina Gabrielsson Chair: Gill Matthewson Chair: Elke Krasny

Material and Rational Do the Right Thing? Queer and Ecofeminist Place in Canons — Role Models — Feminisms: And how could (How not to do things with the Sun: Three case studies of Spaces — Places: these contribute to creating entrepreneurs). Claudia Dutson Croatian tourist architecture. Women & architectural histories. humane architectures. Maja Broun & Lea Horvat Christina Budde, Peg Rawes & Doug Spencer Academic Capitalism in Elizabeth Darling, Architecture Schools: Telling Storeys: Flirting with Mary Pepchinski, A Feminist critique of room specifications as a critical Lynne Walker Employability — 24-hour work fictional-factual document. and Entrepreneurship. Brady Burroughs Igea Troiani Slow mo Creatures: A sci-fi novel Towards Posthuman Design: on the ecology of time. New pedagogies and Malin Zimm methodologies. Heidi Sohn

13.00 — 14.00 LUNCH Architecture & Feminisms Friday 18 November Schedule

14.00 — 16.00 ROUNDTABLE SALONS

Room: A108 Room: A123 Room: A124 Room: Dome of Visions Making Trouble to Stay With: She Jokes That Dogs are Easier Feminist Practices: Women’s Architecture and feminist to Domesticate than Men: What a practice can do! Histories in Architecture. pedagogies. Gender politics, architecture, and domesticity cults.

Chairs: Torsten Lange Chair: Daniel Koch Chair: Hélène Frichot Chair: Helena Mattsson & Emily Eliza Scott Respondent: Respondent: Lori Brown Respondent: Hilde Heynen Respondent: Jane Rendell Despina Stratigakos Landscape and Confinement Myra Warhaftig: A feminist A Model that is Not One. A Gender Sensitive Analysis of in the Writing of Mary architect in West Berlin in the Lila (Evangelia) Athanasiadou Nubian Village in Post­migration Wollstonecraft. 1980s. Gerald Adler Era. Menatalla Ahmed Agha Emma Cheatle Pedagogies for ‘Mistressing’ Feminism in the Age of Architecture. Harriet Harriss Reconsidering the Housing Architecture and the Chain Humanism: Christine de Pizan‘s Block: Innovations by two Polish of Chores. Kimberli Meyer ‘City of Women’ and Alberti’s ‘De Scholarship as Activism: women architects of the Soviet re aedificatoria et als’ from Hyper-visible Invisibility: Writing the history of women Era, Helena Syrkus and Zofia the 21st century point of view. Tracing the politics poetics and into architecture. Hansen. Mikolaj Czerwinski & Gordana Fontana-Giusti affects of the unseen. Andrea J. Merrett Beatrice Smigasiewicz Marie-Louise Richards Public and Private Women Salvation by Design? Woman’s Hand: Reading Turkish in Late Medieval Florence. 105 Women: In Search of a safe, Feminist Architecture: modern architecture through Christian Frost free space for a diverse group An Iranian take. woman architects. Burcu Köken Iradj Moeini of women to meet, make, play, The Invisible Woman. Gendered Typologies: share, learn and exchange Mireille Roddier Live Community Architecture: The possibility of a feminist skills in. Liz Stirling Absent Lina: On Lina Loos’s A transformative feminist approach to architectural type. Rinkeby: Exploring feminist absence from discussions practice? Rachel Sara Maria Paez Gonzalez design tools. Erika Fagerberg in architecture. The Shifting Territory of & Marina Ziakouli Ana-Maria Simionovici the Domestic Realm. Angela Kyriacou-Petrou

Spectacles of Innocence: Age, Race and gender in the houses of Charles W. Moore. Lori Smithey

16.00 — 16.30 FIKA (COFFEE BREAK)

16.30 — 16.45 Walk to DOCH School of Dance and Circus, KTH Main Campus. a Walk, a (S)pace, a Gaze. Goedele De Caluwe & Thomas Montulet. Starting at School of architecture and ending up at DOCH

16.45 — 23.00: STYLES SALON (Location: DOCH – Dance and Circus School)

INCLUDING KEYNOTE DIALOGUE AND DINNER. WELCOME TO THE SALON!

KEYNOTE DIALOGUE: Liminal Spaces: Notes from the Daughter of a Salonnière. Fanny Söderbäck. Salonnière: Yvonne Rock

Listen Up! Was (is) Taking Place a The Family Dinner. Mina egna kroppar. Sophia Wiberg & Stina Nyberg Nomadic Practice? Hanna Wildow KROPPSFUNKTION Teresa Hoskyns (Izabella Borzecka & Tove Sahlin) Report from the City & Helen Stratford How to Do Things With Romance Planning Project The Kitchen of — a prologue. I Like Older Women. Praxagora: Turning the private Nuestras Madres (Our Mothers). Ellen Söderhult et al. Angelica Falkeling and public inside out. IDA (Estella Burga, Macarena Elin Strand Ruin Dusant & Isabel Löfgren) Finding Memory. Nadja Hjorton & Katarina Winter Architecture & Feminisms Schedule saturday 19 november

09.00 — 10.30 KEYNOTE PANEL (Room: A108, KTH)

Architecture and Feminisms: Living in the Land — Industrial-, Ecological-, and The Architect as Shopper: Technologies and Waterscapes of Colonial Ecomodern Masculinities. Women, electricity, building Racist Exploitations: Situated Martin Hultman products and the interwar Chair: Jane Rendell experiences of hydropower and ‘proprietary turn’ in the UK. windpower as architecture of Katie Lloyd Thomas Introduced by: genocide and destruction in Catharina Gabrielsson Jokkmokk, Sweden. May-Britt Öhman

10.30—11.00 FIKA (COFFEE BREAK)

11.00 Cycle Flâneur. Marion Preez. Location: Outside the the Dome of Visions

11.00 —13.00 PARALLEL PANELS 04

Room: A108 Room: A123 Room: A124 Room: Dome of Visions

Chair: Emily E. Scott Chair: Katharine Gibson Chair: Katie Lloyd Thomas Chair: Brady Burroughs

Of the Urban and the Ocean: Reproductive Commons From Massey’s Global Place and Ulysses’s Ship: Becomings Rachel Carson and the disregard and Beyond the Kitchen. Displacement through Another of an architectural mind. of wet volumes. Charity Edwards Julia Wieger Space. Stephen Read Stavros Kousoulas

Architectures Between the Devil Undoing Household Economics: Subaltern Bodies in the Digital The Trouble with Site, and the Deep Blue Sea. The critical potential of house- Urban Imaginary. Alison Brunn or Approaching Ecological Karin Reisinger work. Catharina Gabrielsson Novelty Politically. Fabricating Architecture: Digital Sara Jacobs From the Closet to the Grave: Modern Feminist Kitchens: Making as Feminist Practice. Sexuality and the rural Paulette Bernège (1896—1973) Shelby Elizabeth Doyle and Girl Stereotypes cemetery. Evan Pavka an architectural theorist & Leslie Forehand in Pink Urban Space: The and designer. Florencia paradoxical outcome Architectural Preservation Fernandez Cardoso Armies and Clerks: Operations of a gender agenda. as Taxidermy: and research and computed archi- Ragnhild Claesson boredom. Christian Parreno Drawing Out Home-making: tecture. Pablo Miranda Carranza Contested markets in Cape Town. Huda Tayob

13.00 — 14.00 LUNCH AND COFFEE

14.00 — 15.30 PARALLEL PANELS 05

Room: A108 Room: A123 Room: A124 Room: Dome of Visions

Chair: Meike Schalk Chair: Katja Grillner Chair: May-Britt Öhman Chair: Anna Hult

In My Mothers’ Garden: ‘I’m Here’: Identity and Machinic Architectural Historical Reflections on Memories and practices of obscurity in locative safety Ecologies: An uncertain ground. Psychological Assumptions, Greenham Common Women’s technology for women in Janet McGaw Male-Norming, and Feminine Peace Camp. Nick Beech neo-liberal cities. Nicole Kalms Potential in the Practices of The Fleshy Analogy of Shell the Architecture Profession. Feminist Community Practices Persons, Masks, Personas: Architectures or ‘Fuck The Jhennifer Amundson within Architecture in the Gaza Abstraction, projection, and the Bauhaus’. Freya Wigzell Strip during and after War 2014. logic of the mannequin. Blurring Borders: Hala Eid Alnaji, Shyma Naji Daniel Koch Reconsidering Chôra, Feminist activism and the social & Haya Alnaji Architecture, and ‘the feminine’. ecologies of architecture. A Discussion of the Mattress in Louise Burchill Gill Matthewson Towards Reconstructing Yvonne Rainer’s Parts of Some ‘Environment’ in Humanitarian Sextets (1965). Tom Hastings MAPping Bodies on NGO Responsive Frameworks: the Borderline. Spaces from circumstantial Dorita Hannah surroundings to environmental subjectivities. Aya Musmar Architecture & Feminisms Saturday 19 November Schedule

15.30 — 15.50 SHORT BREAK

15.50 — 16.10 (Room: A108) 16.15 — 17.15 Sarah Lappin introduces the AHRA (Architectural Humanities KEYNOTE DIALOGUE (Room: A108) Research Association) & Christian Frost introduces the 2017 AHRA Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies and Economies. international conference at Birmingham City University Chair: Peg Rawes. Introduced by: Meike Schalk

Diverse Economies, Ecologies and Practices of Urban Commoning. Katherine Gibson in conversation with Doina Petrescu.

17.15 — 17.30 CLOSING venues

KTH School of Architecture Osquars backe 5 Lecture halls on entrance level DOCH (detailed map on page 2) Brinellvägen 58 Dome of Visions Valhallavägen 79 Lecture room on 1st level

DOCH School of Dance and Circus Brinellvägen 58 The main stage room “Scenen” / ”purple room”

Drottning Kristinas väg Brinellvägen 58

School of

Valhallavägen Architecture Osquars backe 5

Osquars backe

T Metro station Tekniska Exit towards “Tekniska Dome of Visions högskolan” Högskolan Valhallavägen 79