Feminist Spatial Practices: Web Platform Launch Event
Schedule
Tue Oct 08 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States, New York 10002 | Brooklyn, NY
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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 Architecture 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—Malkit Shoshan, A.L. Hu, 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.
The platform will be viewable on the Feminist Spatial Practices website after October 8.
Biographies
A.L. Hu (they/them) is a transgenderqueer Taiwanese American architect, artist, and facilitator. Their practice synthesizes organizing for racial, class, and gender justice with design to queer the architect’s role in facilitating accessible spaces. They founded Queeries, a design-queering initiative for and by LGBTQIA+ spatial designers.
Jerome W Haferd is a licensed architect, public artist, and educator based in Harlem, NYC. He is assistant professor of architecture at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture. Haferd is principal of award-winning studio Jerome Haferd Architecture and co-founder of BRANDT : HAFERD Architecture. He is also a core initiator of Dark Matter U (DMU), a BIPOC-led network geared towards new models of design pedagogy and practice. Haferd received the 2022 #BlackVisionaries award as part of a DMU cohort. He is co-director for the Mellon-funded Place Memory and Culture Incubator at Spitzer School of Architecture, beginning in Fall 2023. Haferd’s research and practice critically engages built environment projects in both urban and rural contexts, often looking to marginalized histories to unlock a new imaginary for architecture, design, and cultural infrastructure.
Malkit Shoshan is a designer, researcher, and director of FAST: Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory. FAST uses research, advocacy, and spatial design to highlight systemic violence and promote social and environmental justice through collaborative initiatives and designs. Malkit authored several books, including Atlas of Conflict: Israel-Palestine, Village, and BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions. In 2021, she received the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Malkit is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident and the 2024 Senior Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she directed the Art, Design, and the Public Domain MDes and has been teaching since 2016. Her work has been featured internationally in numerous publications and exhibitions.
For more information, contact [email protected].
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to [email protected]. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space and this bathroom.
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Where is it happening?
172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States, New York 10002Event Location & Nearby Stays:
