A Virtual Symposium
March 2–3, 2021
CARE-WORK: Space, Bodies, and the Politics of Care will examine how concepts of care across multiple disciplines have redefined the boundaries between our bodies, our collective structures, and our environments. Through these frames, the symposium will interrogate architecture’s relationship to care work as an intimate alliance between the built environment and its embedded material, social, and labor practices. Panel discussions will explore architecture’s capacity to unearth and cultivate new forms for care, unpacking the intersection between space, subjectivity, and solidarity.
The symposium is organized into two panels on March 2. The morning panel, Infrastructures of Care, will examine architectures of care through frameworks of labor, ecology, and community. Panelists include Maria S. Giudici, Torsten Lange, Sarah Nichols, and Rosario Talevi. The afternoon panel, Embodiments of Care, will unpack architectures of care through the lens of the body and its political, material, and affective conditions. Panelists include Jia Yi Gu, HOME-OFFICE, f-architecture, and Fabiola López-Durán. Please register to join the event HERE.
The symposium will conclude with a keynote address by Silvia Federici the evening of March 3. Please register to join the event here.
CARE-WORK: Space, Bodies, and the Politics of Care is organized by Brittany Utting, Assistant Professor at Rice Architecture. This symposium is made possible through the generous support of the Rice University Humanities Research Center and Rice Architecture.
Event Schedule:
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Panel 1: Infrastructures of Care
10am-12pm CST
Maria S. Giudici, Head of History and Theory, School of Architecture, Royal College of Art; Editor, AA Files
Torsten Lange, PhD, Guest Professor, Chair for Theory and History of Architecture, Art and Design, TU Munich
Sarah Nichols, Assistant Professor, Rice Architecture
Rosario Talevi, Founder of Soft Agency; Co-Director of Floating University Berlin
Panel 2: Embodiments of Care
1pm-3:30pm CST
Jia Yi Gu, Director of MAK Center for Art and Architecture; Visiting Faculty at California College of the Arts
HOME-OFFICE, Co-founded by Brittany Utting, Rice Architecture, and Daniel Jacobs, University of Houston
f-architecture, Co-founded by Virginia Black, Rosana Elkhatib, and Gabrielle Printz
Fabiola López-Durán, PhD, Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History, Rice University
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Closing Keynote
6pm-7:30pm CST
Silvia Federici, PhD, Professor Emerita of New College, Hofstra University, New York
