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| In this gathering of Urgent Pedagogies, architects and academics unfold their socially engaged critical practice, operating between institutional and non-institutional pedagogical and activist environments, presenting projects and platforms dealing with urgent issues of social and environmental justice, dispositions of non-conforming bodies, and the right to public space.
With Malkit Shoshan, Socrates Stratis, Anna Puigjaner, and Ethel Baraona Pohl, response by Silvia Franceschini, introduction and moderation by Pelin Tan and Magnus Ericson.
Pre-registration only, limited availability
Please send an email to: urgentpedagogies@iaspis.se
In times of uncertainty and overlapping crises, an infrastructure of care offers a framework for cultivating nurturing relationships – both between people and with our shared planet – through collective action. In her presentation, Malkit Shoshan explores projects by the think tank FAST, with diverse stakeholders in border regions, from working with local communities to global institutions. Including the use of design to imagine and cultivate care infrastructure where they are needed the most. Today, centring care becomes a radical act of collective remediation, inextricably linking our well-being to the well-being of others and our planet. Anna Puigjaner and Ethel Baraona Pohl discuss the research and educational project Care. that addresses care and architecture. The project was launched in 2023 as the Chair of Architecture and Care in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zürich, in which Care. aims to rethink the built environment at multiple scales to foster non-conforming ways of living and joy, from a gender, queer and crip perspective. Dismantling care regimes based on unevenly distributed and often invisibilised care labour, an architecture that acknowledges the multiplicity of body dispositions in social space, from ageing to neurodivergence, from gender to race, is promoted. Socrates Stratis presents the project Practices of Care that involve his double agency of being both an infrastructural designer of public spaces and an activist for the urban commons in Cyprus. Rather often, public spaces in ethno-nationally driven urban environments host the dominating collective memory of those in power: monuments of heroes, in their majority of men, and objects for commemoration of relevant historical events. Practices of Care are about techniques of camouflage in introducing alternative narratives that don’t abide by the dominant.
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