e-flux Architecture is proud to announce its fall 2024 program, an event series discussing timely issues in contemporary architecture, theory, culture, and technology. The e-flux Architecture program aims to bring together both leading architectural historians and theorists as well as emerging researchers and practitioners to test out and experiment with new or ongoing research. Unthemed, the series simultaneously strives to generate new scholarship while surveying the cutting edge of architectural discourse. Our fall 2024 program includes Feminist Spatial Practices, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Alfredo Thiermann, Mae-Ling Lokko, Shannon Mattern, and Ateya A. Khorakiwala.
Feminist Spatial Practices: Making Workshop
September 28, 2024, 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 at e-flux into an exploratory lounging environment.
Film as Curatorial Tool: screening and conversation
An afternoon with selected films by CCA, guest-curated by Sara Silva
October 5, 2024, 5pm
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Screening of Now, Please Think About Yesterday (2019), To Remain in the No Longer (2023), and Into the Island (2024), three selected documentaries produced by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in conjunction with exhibitions exploring topics of quality of life, urban development and decay, and ecological design. The screening is followed by a conversation with e-flux Film curator Lukas Brasiskis and e-flux Architecture Assistant Editor Christina Moushoul who are joined by CCA curators Francesco Garutti and Irene Chin, on the use of film in spatial studies and storytelling.
Feminist Spatial Practices: web platform launch event
October 8, 2024, 7pm
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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. 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.
Alfredo Thiermann, “Radio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin”
October 22, 2024, 7pm
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In this talk Alfredo Thiermann will present his recently published book Radio-Activities in which he interrogates the political, technological, and environmental dimensions of architecture during the Cold War when buildings began to interact with the remote transmission of information.
Mae-Ling Lokko, “Plant Scale”
October 29, 2024, 7pm
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From the light and porous to the high-density and compressed states of plant-derived building materials, “Plant Scale” reflects on the tension between these two operative scales in the design and reintegration of bio-based components into twenty-first century built culture, querying the underlying patterns of human-plant relationships in relation to comfort, ecological health, population growth, biodiversity and climate change.
Shannon Mattern, “Civic Adjacencies”
November 12, 2024, 7pm
Thinking across architecture and urban, organization, graphic, and service design; integrating historical precedent, from the City Beautiful movement to the New Deal and beyond; drawing on global exemplars; and welcoming audience participation, this talk will consider what’s possible when we imagine new spatial arrangements of and adjacencies between our public knowledge, cultural, and care institutions and the infrastructures that support them.
Ayeta Khorakiwala, “Shells and Silos: An Epistemic Accounting of Instability and Cracks”
December 5, 2024, 7pm
This talk examines the architectural and infrastructural objects that embodied the different epistemic anxieties of engineers and economists in India in the 1960s and 1970s. Although infrastructure is often imagined as the thing that creates the conditions for the economy to flow, this talk is concerned with infrastructure’s work in stabilizing value, particularly cement and concrete’s work in stabilizing the price of grain.