Feminist Spatial Practices workshop and launch

Feminist Spatial Practices: making workshop
Saturday, September 28, 2-5pm
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As a prelude to the launch event for the Feminist Spatial Practices web platform, this workshop invites participants to co-create fluffy textile poofs that will transform the space of the e-flux screening room into an exploratory lounging environment. Referencing legacies of feminist and queer textile art, as well as communities of knitting and quilting circles, the event offers a moment of collective making and play. Participants will create soft textile objects that will support sitting and connecting during the launch event. During the workshop, prompts will be provided for discussing feminist practices in the built environment while making together. No training or skill is required—participants will be invited to create “fluffies” by knotting fabric strips onto soft armatures using provided recycled fabrics. Join us for a workshop of collective creation and feminist ideation!

Feminist Spatial Practices: web platform launch event
Tuesday, October 8, 7-9pm
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Feminist Spatial Practices—a global collective of architects, artists, designers and scholars—is launching a new interactive online platform that celebrates the diverse ways that people practice feminism in the built environment. The platform offers an interactive new media visualization and a searchable index of 600+ global feminist practices in art, design, architecture, and activism. The experimental design of the platform enables visitors to discover relationships between practices, publications, exhibitions, and protest movements across time, with themes such as “experimental pedagogies,” “alternative materialities,” and “spaces for non-conforming bodies.” The entries for the archive have been collectively produced with input from community members around the world, growing from an earlier research and visualization project published on e-flux and created for the Chronograms project supported by the Jencks Foundation.

At the launch event, members of Feminist Spatial Practices will introduce the interactive archive, and guest speakers featured within the platform—Marisa Morán Jahn, A.L. Hu, Diana Agrest, and Jerome Haferd—will share their work on intersectional gender equity in the built environment. Fluffy poofs, created during a participatory workshop, will transform the space at e-flux into an environment that invites multiple embodied forms of participation.