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?
Elke Krasny
PhD, Professor for Art and Education and Head of the Art and Education Program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a feminist cultural theorist, urban researcher, curator, and author. Her scholarship and her international lectures address ecological and social justice at the global present with a focus on caring practices in architecture, urbanism, curatorial work, and contemporary art. In 2023, she received the Gabriele Possanner State Prize, given in recognition of promoting, deepening, and nourishing critical dimensions of gender in research.
Alstra byggforum
Alstra Byggforum is an association and a multidisciplinary network for non-binary, transgender and/or women in the architecture and civil engineering industry. The association was founded in 1980 under the name Kvinnors Byggforum and since then has worked creatively and critically for a more inclusive industry and built environment.