image copyright: Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan Heritage Foundation

Today, we are living with a deeply wounded planet. We are all the planetary beings and matters that are of and with the planet. Modern epistemologies and economic realities have resulted in oppressive logics of separation and violent forms of building borders and, at the same time, accelerating extraction. We need to collectively build awareness for what it means to be living with a wounded planet and how architecture is implicated in wounding the planet and responsible to living with the planet. Introducing recovery as a concept, this lecture draws on practices of curating with care and asks what kind of architecture is needed to recover in the afterlife of patriarchal-colonial-imperial-capitalist violence.

Bio:

Elke Krasny, PhD, Professor for Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Krasny focuses on concerns of care, reproductive labor, social and environmental justice, commemorative practices and transnational feminisms in art, architecture, infrastructures and urbanism. Her 2023 book Living with an Infected Planet. Covid-19 Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care (transcript publishers) focuses on militarized care essentialism and feminist recovery plans in pandemic times.