On the 14th and 15th of November 2019 the international CLAIMING*SPACES Conference hosted its participants and guests with a broad range of talks, discussions, workshops and performances within the framework of ARCHIDIPLOMA 2019.
The conference asked questions about the connections and dynamics that lead to a so-called leaky pipeline for women in architecture and spatial planning.
The pointing out of the lack of feminist actors and perspectives served as a starting point for the discussion. It was not only about women's difficult career opportunities, but also about whether the people who create the built environment as a group should not be as diverse as those who use it.
The CLAIMING*SPACES collective invited students, teachers, planners and researchers from the fields of architecture and spatial planning as well as interested parties to participate in the discourse in the form of discussions, lectures and workshops and to jointly design feminist positions and tools for a different kind of architecture and spatial planning. The conference was public & free of charge.
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Welcome
introduction:
Inge Manka (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU WIen)
with:
Anna Steiger (Vice Rector for Human Resources and Gender TU Wien)
Christine Hohenbüchler (Head of the Institute of Art and Design, Curator Archdiploma 2019, TU WIen)
Sharing Our Feminist Design Power Tools
Keynote
↑
Emerging out of the pedagogical spaces and times of the design studios and theory seminars of Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH Stockholm, the concept and messy method of the feminist design power tool is the collaborative means by which minoritarian voices can share their stories and practices, and learn to think architecture otherwise. The feminist power tool challenges power structures where they become oppressive, and seeks out alternative ecologies of practices amidst which to continue the dirty work of worlding.
by:
Hélène Frichot (KTH Stockholm)
Feminist design power tools (there and many, and they should continue to proliferate, and be passed on generously from hand to hand) require an open-ended do-it-yourself guide book or set of instructions. A ‘user’s guide’, such as I set out in my small book, How to Make Yourself a Feminist Design Power Tool (2016) is inspired both by the pedagogical habits of how an (architectural) design studio is usually set up with a brief that demands to be broken, and by the tradition of ‘instructional art’, think, for instance, of Mierle Ukeles’s maintenance art manual and manifesto. While the user’s guide is intended to be received as a playful construction, it is directed at the serious question of how, as creative practitioners in architecture, we might alter our practices and think and perform transversally amidst our local environment-worlds.
Status Quo
Panel
↑
Presentation and discussion of the findings of several interrogative research projects at the TU Wien
moderation:
Silvia Forlati (Moderation, Share Architects and Researcher, Vienna)
with:
Sabina Riss (TU Wien)
Viktoria Edler (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
Katharina Rohringer (TU Wien)
Sophie Schaffer (TU Wien)
Stephanie Szerencsics (TU Wien)
Günther Wimmer (TU Wien)
Lauren Janko (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
Annalisa Mauri (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
Veronika Wladyga (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
Petra Hirschler (TU Wien)
guests:
Ursula Faix (Task-Force "Women in Architecture" at the Architects' Council of Europe ACE)
Barbara Kübler (Chamber of Architects, Women's Comittee)
Christian Kühn (Dean of Architecture Studies, TU Wien)
Brigitte Ratzer (Gender Competence Department, TU Wien)
Fedora Herzog (Student Council, TU Wien)
The Feminist Eco-Panel, Housing Queer Ecologies
Panel
↑
Expressing a plurality of feminisms, this panel is composed of emerging and established researchers, artists and architects connected through their educational processes of knowledge transfer and production, and through their ongoing collaborations. The panel aims to create a space that is squatted by case-studies and explorations that are not yet part of the architectural canon.
with:
Karin Reisinger (TU Wien)
Aleksandra Bogdanovic(TU Wien)
Emma Carlén (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Hélène Frichot (KTH Stockholm)
Matilde Mork (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Melanie_Mo Hartman (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
Kenneth Loe (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Suzana Milevska (Visual Cultural Theorist and Curator, Skopje)
Thus, we foster theoretical approaches capable of responding to different sites of engagement by using exemplary feminist concepts – or concept-tools as Hélène Frichot calls them. We address reproduction and reproducibilities in relation to ecologies; theories of dirt; and forms and formats of intersectionality. We further present an attempt to embed Vienna‘s Türkis Rosa Lila Villa into architectural discourse; we explore ways of queerly sensing Singapore‘s Hort Park; and we intertwine complex subject-object and material relationships with geologies , performing and dancing (with) fish and design. In all the above explorations feminist theories and concepts are deployed not to limit an understanding of specific sites and case studies, but to allow for the dissemination of broader effects and far reaching reverberations.
Women in Architecture + Planning
Roundtale
↑
The roundtable seeks reflection and international exchange of experiences, practices and approaches in architecture and planning towards developing feminist strategies for spatial questions.
moderation:
Elke Krasny (Cultural Theorist, Curator, Urban Researcher, Acadamy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Bernadette Krejs (Claiming Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
with:
Katharina Bayer (Einszueins Architektur, Vienna)
Ievgeniia Gubkina (Urban Art Forms Center, Kharkiv)
Petra Petersson (Realarchitektur Berlin, Dean Faculty of Architecture, TU Graz)
Milota Sidorova (Co-founder & Directur Women of Prague Public Space, WP Prague)
Lina Streeruwith (StudioVlayStreeruwitz, Vienna)
Feminism in Architecture + Planning Schools
Presentations / Discussion
↑
Critiquing academic institutions and demanding change for more equity and diversity both in curricula as well as in teaching and research conditions
moderation:
Christina Linortner (TU Graz)
Inge Manka (Claiming*Spaces Collective)
with:
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (Parity Group ETH Zürich)
Working Group gender (Christina Ehrmann, SIlvester Kreil, Antje Lehn IKA, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Meike Schalk (KTH Stockholm)
Presentation / Discussion
↑
Who defines what 'good' architecture is? How can we reveal architecture's self-defined objectivity and neutrality? Why not think of an (built) environment where there is room for all of us?
moderation:
Melanie_Mo Hartmann (Claiming*Spaces Collective)
Julia Wieger (Architect, Researcher and Curator, Vienna)
Inge Manka (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
with:
Katarina Bonenvier (Mycket, Stockholm)
Ingrid Ruudi (Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn)
Julischka Stengele (Transdisciplinary Artist, Vienna)
100 Minutes of Designing Feminist Activism
Panel
↑
Presentation of feminist collectives, research and design projects, buildings, books, diplomas and initiatives.
moderation:
Marlene Wagner (TU Wien)
with:
Katarina Bonnevier
Ievgeniia Gubkina
Roland Hampl & Andreas Konecny
Eva Kail
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes & Dubravka Sekulic
Birgit Miksch & Maria Myskiw
Ursula Napravnik
Claudia Schaefers
Christine Zwingl
Claiming*Spaces Workshop Report
On the 14th and 15th of November 2019 the international CLAIMING*SPACES Conference hosted its participants and guests with a broad range of talks, discussions, workshops and performances within the framework of ARCHIDIPLOMA 2019.
The conference asked questions about the connections and dynamics that lead to a so-called leaky pipeline for women in architecture and spatial planning.
The pointing out of the lack of feminist actors and perspectives served as a starting point for the discussion. It was not only about women's difficult career opportunities, but also about whether the people who create the built environment as a group should not be as diverse as those who use it.
The CLAIMING*SPACES collective invited students, teachers, planners and researchers from the fields of architecture and spatial planning as well as interested parties to participate in the discourse in the form of discussions, lectures and workshops and to jointly design feminist positions and tools for a different kind of architecture and spatial planning. The conference was public & free of charge.
→ Download Program
→ Download Poster
Welcome
introduction:
Inge Manka (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU WIen)
with:
Anna Steiger (Vice Rector for Human Resources and Gender TU Wien)
Christine Hohenbüchler (Head of the Institute of Art and Design, Curator Archdiploma 2019, TU WIen)
Sharing Our Feminist Design Power Tools
Keynote
↑
Emerging out of the pedagogical spaces and times of the design studios and theory seminars of Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH Stockholm, the concept and messy method of the feminist design power tool is the collaborative means by which minoritarian voices can share their stories and practices, and learn to think architecture otherwise. The feminist power tool challenges power structures where they become oppressive, and seeks out alternative ecologies of practices amidst which to continue the dirty work of worlding.
by:
Hélène Frichot (KTH Stockholm)
Feminist design power tools (there and many, and they should continue to proliferate, and be passed on generously from hand to hand) require an open-ended do-it-yourself guide book or set of instructions. A ‘user’s guide’, such as I set out in my small book, How to Make Yourself a Feminist Design Power Tool (2016) is inspired both by the pedagogical habits of how an (architectural) design studio is usually set up with a brief that demands to be broken, and by the tradition of ‘instructional art’, think, for instance, of Mierle Ukeles’s maintenance art manual and manifesto. While the user’s guide is intended to be received as a playful construction, it is directed at the serious question of how, as creative practitioners in architecture, we might alter our practices and think and perform transversally amidst our local environment-worlds.
Status Quo
Panel
↑
Presentation and discussion of the findings of several interrogative research projects at the TU Wien
moderation:
Silvia Forlati (Moderation, Share Architects and Researcher, Vienna)
with:
Sabina Riss (TU Wien)
Viktoria Edler (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
Katharina Rohringer (TU Wien)
Sophie Schaffer (TU Wien)
Stephanie Szerencsics (TU Wien)
Günther Wimmer (TU Wien)
Lauren Janko (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
Annalisa Mauri (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
Veronika Wladyga (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
Petra Hirschler (TU Wien)
guests:
Ursula Faix (Task-Force "Women in Architecture" at the Architects' Council of Europe ACE)
Barbara Kübler (Chamber of Architects, Women's Comittee)
Christian Kühn (Dean of Architecture Studies, TU Wien)
Brigitte Ratzer (Gender Competence Department, TU Wien)
Fedora Herzog (Student Council, TU Wien)
The Feminist Eco-Panel, Housing Queer Ecologies
Panel
↑
Expressing a plurality of feminisms, this panel is composed of emerging and established researchers, artists and architects connected through their educational processes of knowledge transfer and production, and through their ongoing collaborations. The panel aims to create a space that is squatted by case-studies and explorations that are not yet part of the architectural canon.
with:
Karin Reisinger (TU Wien)
Aleksandra Bogdanovic(TU Wien)
Emma Carlén (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Hélène Frichot (KTH Stockholm)
Matilde Mork (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Melanie_Mo Hartman (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
Kenneth Loe (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Suzana Milevska (Visual Cultural Theorist and Curator, Skopje)
Thus, we foster theoretical approaches capable of responding to different sites of engagement by using exemplary feminist concepts – or concept-tools as Hélène Frichot calls them. We address reproduction and reproducibilities in relation to ecologies; theories of dirt; and forms and formats of intersectionality. We further present an attempt to embed Vienna‘s Türkis Rosa Lila Villa into architectural discourse; we explore ways of queerly sensing Singapore‘s Hort Park; and we intertwine complex subject-object and material relationships with geologies , performing and dancing (with) fish and design. In all the above explorations feminist theories and concepts are deployed not to limit an understanding of specific sites and case studies, but to allow for the dissemination of broader effects and far reaching reverberations.
Women in Architecture + Planning
Roundtale
↑
The roundtable seeks reflection and international exchange of experiences, practices and approaches in architecture and planning towards developing feminist strategies for spatial questions.
moderation:
Elke Krasny (Cultural Theorist, Curator, Urban Researcher, Acadamy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Bernadette Krejs (Claiming Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
with:
Katharina Bayer (Einszueins Architektur, Vienna)
Ievgeniia Gubkina (Urban Art Forms Center, Kharkiv)
Petra Petersson (Realarchitektur Berlin, Dean Faculty of Architecture, TU Graz)
Milota Sidorova (Co-founder & Directur Women of Prague Public Space, WP Prague)
Lina Streeruwith (StudioVlayStreeruwitz, Vienna)
Feminism in Architecture + Planning Schools
Presentations / Discussion
↑
Critiquing academic institutions and demanding change for more equity and diversity both in curricula as well as in teaching and research conditions
moderation:
Christina Linortner (TU Graz)
Inge Manka (Claiming*Spaces Collective)
with:
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (Parity Group ETH Zürich)
Working Group gender (Christina Ehrmann, SIlvester Kreil, Antje Lehn IKA, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Meike Schalk (KTH Stockholm)
Presentation / Discussion
↑
Who defines what 'good' architecture is? How can we reveal architecture's self-defined objectivity and neutrality? Why not think of an (built) environment where there is room for all of us?
moderation:
Melanie_Mo Hartmann (Claiming*Spaces Collective)
Julia Wieger (Architect, Researcher and Curator, Vienna)
Inge Manka (Claiming*Spaces Collective, TU Wien)
with:
Katarina Bonenvier (Mycket, Stockholm)
Ingrid Ruudi (Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn)
Julischka Stengele (Transdisciplinary Artist, Vienna)
100 Minutes of Designing Feminist Activism
Panel
↑
Presentation of feminist collectives, research and design projects, buildings, books, diplomas and initiatives.
moderation:
Marlene Wagner (TU Wien)
with:
Katarina Bonnevier
Ievgeniia Gubkina
Roland Hampl & Andreas Konecny
Eva Kail
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes & Dubravka Sekulic
Birgit Miksch & Maria Myskiw
Ursula Napravnik
Claudia Schaefers
Christine Zwingl
Claiming*Spaces Workshop Report