Practice Place: Building Feminist Practice
How to create conditions for an ecological and hopeful design practice? IABR 2024 introduces a Practice Place, a soft assembly space within the exhibition, and calls upon spatial practitioners to come together around the transformation of practice.
The current turn towards architecture as an ecological and relational practice is deeply rooted in feminist thought and practice. Feminist spatial practitioners have expanded what architecture can be, weaving together different forms of knowledge and experience. Recent years saw an increase in attention to the role of previously marginalised perspectives in the discipline. This assembly asks: how to create conditions for feminist architecture and urbanism? What does feminist practice look like in the office and on the building site? How to build more equitable futures?
The intention of the gathering is to build and strengthen connections between architects and urbanists working from feminist values, and to exchange knowledge and experience. Paulien Bremmer invites us to speculate on the other building site, and the Spanish Pezestudio shares tools for practicing ecofeminist urbanism. Collectively we craft new narratives for building feminist practice.
Building Feminist Practice is part of a series of assemblies in the Practice Place. The gathering is documented in a growing archive in the exhibition and forms the basis for a podcast series with De Architect. The Practice Place program leads to the development of a New Narrative for Architecture and Urbanism (NNAU), which will be festively presented during the closing weekend of the biennale.
This assembly is organised in collaboration with PAF – platform voor architectuur en feminisme.
Paulien Bremmer's research into The Other Construction Site is made possible by the Creative Industries Fund NL.
Doors open 9:30. End 16:45.
The spoken language is English.
The event is free, but registration is required.
Practice Place logo. Image: Studio Le Roy Cleeremans