Symposium
Critical Care — Symposium

The community activist Mario Nuñez in the Las Monjas communal garden, part of a community land trust in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
© Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña/Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín Peña/G-8, photograph: Ernesto Robles
Modern architecture and city planning have essentially been determined by the idea of the world as Tabula Rasa. The consequences of the future planned by Modernists determine our living conditions today. How can a Radical Care perspective change architecture and urbanism?
Capitalism has resulted in a new era on earth: the Anthropocene period, also called the Capitalocene period. “Our job is to make the Anthropocene as short/thin as possible and to cultivate with each other in every way imaginable”, writes the philosopher Donna Haraway. A Care Perspective in architecture and urbanism aims to do exactly this. Care begins in the midst of things. Concrete actions and redefining the relationships between economy, ecology and labour together are key. Internationally active architects, urbanists, activists and researchers present examples from different local contexts in Asia, the Caribbean, the USA and Europe.
Curators: Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny
A cooperation by the Az W and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna/akbild
Programme
13:00 Welcome address
Angelika Fitz, Director of the Az W
Andrea B. Braidt, Vice-Rector for Art and Research at akbild, Vienna
13:15–14:30 On Critical Care
Angelika Fitz, curator, Director of the Az W
Elke Krasny, curator, Professor at akbild, Vienna
14:30–15:00 Caring Architecture
Joan C. Tronto, Professor emerita at University of Minnesota and City University New York — video lecture
Architecture and Urbanism: Care Ethics and a Broken Planet
15:00–17:00
Marta Serra Permanyer and Elena Albareda Fernández, CÍCLICA, Barcelona
The Thermal Garden: a community-based productive project to recover vulnerable landscapes
Jan De Vylder, architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, Gent
UNLESS EVER PEOPLE
Hélène Frichot, Professor, School of Architecture, KTH Stockholm
Speculating on Creative Ecologies
17:30–19:00
Gabu Heindl, GABU Heindl Architecture, Vienna, & visiting professor, University of Sheffield
Architecture’s public ground
María E. Hernández Torrales, Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust, San Juan, Puerto Rico
“And for the First Time we the Residents became Actors of Our Own Future”: Lessons from the Fideicomiso de la Tierra de Caño Martín Peña
19:00 Keynote
Katherine Gibson, Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Sydney
Architecting Care: what can we learn from a bamboo bridge about economic and ecological interdependence?
Critical Care – Symposium
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