FEMINIST* PERSPECTIVES IN ARCHITECTURE
AND SPATIAL PLANNING
WHOSE HISTORY?
Is our knowledge of the past limited to who and what we see? What conditions have produced the writing of history, and the perspectives that orient it?
In this second Claiming*Spaces conference, we aim to interrogate the narratives of architectural and spatial planning history conveyed through the media, university, and curated canon.
One dimensional views, produced through particular structural conditions – only allow for the inclusion of perspectives that are familiar. Indeed, the writings of history become repeated and produced from the same structural viewpoint, denying diversity, contestation, and integration of difference. Multiplicities of history, and diverse approaches to the production of architecture, are erased and muted to facilitate the re-production of the one-sided canon.
Reflect on the demographics of the architects we are presented within university! The Icon Architect: Lone, never-sleeping genius, middle-class man, white, cis, able... penetrates beyond the boundaries of the university. Architectural practice, city planning, and cultural production are governed by, and produced for this image, thus structurally reproduced again and again.
To bring the question of 'whose history' to the forefront of architectural discourse, we invite you to take part in unlearning the narrative we have been fed because it is in the best case lacking and in the worst case a lie. It is a collective responsibility to challenge, and change, who is teaching, what is being taught, and in what ways. Through that, we write future histories.
PROGRAMME
10:00
Visit (optional)
permanent Exhibition Hot Questions – Cold Storage, Az W
12:00 -12:50
Welcome & Introduction
Angelika Fitz, Director of the Az W
Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien
Introduction and Feminist Insights
Monika Platzer, Curator and Collection Az W (tbc)
13:00-15:00
Panel 1 _ Educating Architectures. A Feminist Culture of Learning
Input & Discussion
Inge Manka, Sabina Riß
architecture students from TU Wien: Menat Abdou, Albina Aidaralieva, Marie-Claire Amann, León Ausserer, Paula Feichter, Stefanie Fridrich, Valentina Gruber, Janina Habekus, Dana Hintermair, Leon Hofenauer, Katharina Hohenecker, Sultan Kayan , Rebecca Koßler, Danai-Efstathia Kotsali, Pauline Krizmanich , Arzu Kurt, Nelli Menjailow , Eva-Maria Neumaier, Julia Pauer, Anna Prohaska, Ana Putric, Hannah Scholl, Martin Schreiber, Magdalena Steininger, Marija Steko, Hanna Supka-Kovács, Emily Trummer, Anna Vass, Shriranga Wirth
Michelle Howard, Luciano Parodi, Eva Sommeregger, IKA, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
Ena Kukić, Petra Petersson, Gender Task Force, Faculty of Architecture, TU Graz (AT)
Brady Burroughs (tbc), Architect, Teacher, Researcher, KTH Stockholm (SWE)
Afaina de Jong, Architect, Teacher, Researcher; 1. Claiming Spaces Guest Professor 2021, Amsterdam (NL)
Concept & Moderation
Inge Manka, Sabina Riß, Carla Schwaderer, C*S Collective Vienna (AT)
15:30-17:00
Panel 2 _ Gesturing Invisibilised Histories: On Performative Enactment of Spatial Narratives
Perfomance
Raymond Pinto, Artist, Performer, New York (US)
Input & Discussion
Ofri Cnaani, Artist, Educator, Researcher, London (UK)
Lisa Moravec, Art Historian, Vienna (AT)
Afaina de Jong, Architect, Teacher, Researcher, Amsterdam (NL)
Concept & Moderation
Carmen Hines, Bernadette Krejs, C*S Collective Vienna (AT)
17:30-19:00
Panel 3 _ Unseen Realities
Input & Discussion
Zaida Muxí Martínez, Architect, Teacher, Researcher, Barcelona (ESP)
Roberta Burghardt, Architect, co-founder of the architects cooperative coopdisco, Berlin (DE)
Marisa Cortright, Independent Writer, Editor, Researcher, Zagreb (HRV)
Elke Krasny, Cultural Theorist, Curator, Urban Researcher, Vienna (AT)
Concept & Moderation
Lauren Janko, Julia Nuler, Leon Scheufler, Julia Wannenmacher, Elisabeth Weiler, Veronika Wladyga, C*S Collective Vienna (AT)
19:00
Get together
FEMINIST* PERSPECTIVES IN ARCHITECTURE
AND SPATIAL PLANNING
WHOSE HISTORY?
Is our knowledge of the past limited to who and what we see? What conditions have produced the writing of history, and the perspectives that orient it?
In this second Claiming*Spaces conference, we aim to interrogate the narratives of architectural and spatial planning history conveyed through the media, university, and curated canon.
One dimensional views, produced through particular structural conditions – only allow for the inclusion of perspectives that are familiar. Indeed, the writings of history become repeated and produced from the same structural viewpoint, denying diversity, contestation, and integration of difference. Multiplicities of history, and diverse approaches to the production of architecture, are erased and muted to facilitate the re-production of the one-sided canon.
Reflect on the demographics of the architects we are presented within university! The Icon Architect: Lone, never-sleeping genius, middle-class man, white, cis, able... penetrates beyond the boundaries of the university. Architectural practice, city planning, and cultural production are governed by, and produced for this image, thus structurally reproduced again and again.
To bring the question of 'whose history' to the forefront of architectural discourse, we invite you to take part in unlearning the narrative we have been fed because it is in the best case lacking and in the worst case a lie. It is a collective responsibility to challenge, and change, who is teaching, what is being taught, and in what ways. Through that, we write future histories.
PROGRAMME
10:00
Visit (optional)
permanent Exhibition Hot Questions – Cold Storage, Az W
12:00 -12:50
Welcome & Introduction
Angelika Fitz, Director of the Az W
Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien
Introduction and Feminist Insights
Monika Platzer, Curator and Collection Az W (tbc)
13:00-15:00
Panel 1 _ Educating Architectures. A Feminist Culture of Learning
Input & Discussion
Inge Manka, Sabina Riß
architecture students from TU Wien: Menat Abdou, Albina Aidaralieva, Marie-Claire Amann, León Ausserer, Paula Feichter, Stefanie Fridrich, Valentina Gruber, Janina Habekus, Dana Hintermair, Leon Hofenauer, Katharina Hohenecker, Sultan Kayan , Rebecca Koßler, Danai-Efstathia Kotsali, Pauline Krizmanich , Arzu Kurt, Nelli Menjailow , Eva-Maria Neumaier, Julia Pauer, Anna Prohaska, Ana Putric, Hannah Scholl, Martin Schreiber, Magdalena Steininger, Marija Steko, Hanna Supka-Kovács, Emily Trummer, Anna Vass, Shriranga Wirth
Michelle Howard, Luciano Parodi, Eva Sommeregger, IKA, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
Ena Kukić, Petra Petersson, Gender Task Force, Faculty of Architecture, TU Graz (AT)
Brady Burroughs (tbc), Architect, Teacher, Researcher, KTH Stockholm (SWE)
Afaina de Jong, Architect, Teacher, Researcher; 1. Claiming Spaces Guest Professor 2021, Amsterdam (NL)
Concept & Moderation
Inge Manka, Sabina Riß, Carla Schwaderer, C*S Collective Vienna (AT)
15:30-17:00
Panel 2 _ Gesturing Invisibilised Histories: On Performative Enactment of Spatial Narratives
Perfomance
Raymond Pinto, Artist, Performer, New York (US)
Input & Discussion
Ofri Cnaani, Artist, Educator, Researcher, London (UK)
Lisa Moravec, Art Historian, Vienna (AT)
Afaina de Jong, Architect, Teacher, Researcher, Amsterdam (NL)
Concept & Moderation
Carmen Hines, Bernadette Krejs, C*S Collective Vienna (AT)
17:30-19:00
Panel 3 _ Unseen Realities
Input & Discussion
Zaida Muxí Martínez, Architect, Teacher, Researcher, Barcelona (ESP)
Roberta Burghardt, Architect, co-founder of the architects cooperative coopdisco, Berlin (DE)
Marisa Cortright, Independent Writer, Editor, Researcher, Zagreb (HRV)
Elke Krasny, Cultural Theorist, Curator, Urban Researcher, Vienna (AT)
Concept & Moderation
Lauren Janko, Julia Nuler, Leon Scheufler, Julia Wannenmacher, Elisabeth Weiler, Veronika Wladyga, C*S Collective Vienna (AT)
19:00
Get together