<Titolo> Tatjana Schneider: Spatial Agency and Architecture as a Collective Form </Titolo>
Gallery VI PER, Vítkova 2, Karlín-Prague
October 2, 2019, 19:00
Today, when collectivity and the concept of shared work have become a magical formula that allows us to turn upside down how space is created, along with decades of neoliberal exploitation, it is perhaps appropriate to reconsider the potential of such concepts and their implementation in practice. This short lecture followed by a discussion will therefore focus on actions that take into account the multiplicity of interpersonal and non-human relationships. It will address why collectivity might be a concept worthy of exploration, why it should be fought for along with its form, and why it could be a useful tool—along with a healthy dose of pessimism—for re-sketching and creating a truly liberating future.
Tatjana Schneider is an architect and active in the academic field. Currently, she leads the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (GTAS) at the polytechnic in Brunswick, Germany. Between 2004 and 2018, she lectured at the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield (UK). Here, she was one of the initiators of the long-term research project Spatial Agency in 2006, which represents a new way of looking at how buildings and space itself can be formed. From 2014 to 2015, she served as a professor of the history and theory of the city at HafenCity University in Hamburg. She was also a co-founder of the association of professionals in architecture called Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space (GLAS 2000–07), which operates at the intersection of theory and practice with the aim of creating alternatives to capitalist production and consumption of space, and also the Radical Architectures Network, founded in 2013.
The lecture is part of the exhibition Spolka: Spaces of Collectivity - vernisáž / opening.
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October 2, 2019, 19:00
Today, when collectivity and the concept of shared work have become a magical formula that allows us to turn upside down how space is created, along with decades of neoliberal exploitation, it is perhaps appropriate to reconsider the potential of such concepts and their implementation in practice. This short lecture followed by a discussion will therefore focus on actions that take into account the multiplicity of interpersonal and non-human relationships. It will address why collectivity might be a concept worthy of exploration, why it should be fought for along with its form, and why it could be a useful tool—along with a healthy dose of pessimism—for re-sketching and creating a truly liberating future.
Tatjana Schneider is an architect and active in the academic field. Currently, she leads the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (GTAS) at the polytechnic in Brunswick, Germany. Between 2004 and 2018, she lectured at the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield (UK). Here, she was one of the initiators of the long-term research project Spatial Agency in 2006, which represents a new way of looking at how buildings and space itself can be formed. From 2014 to 2015, she served as a professor of the history and theory of the city at HafenCity University in Hamburg. She was also a co-founder of the association of professionals in architecture called Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space (GLAS 2000–07), which operates at the intersection of theory and practice with the aim of creating alternatives to capitalist production and consumption of space, and also the Radical Architectures Network, founded in 2013.
The lecture is part of the exhibition Spolka: Spaces of Collectivity - vernisáž / opening.
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