Care, Hospitality, and Participation
Elke Krasny’s talk positions architecture as a political practice of relation, both shaping and shaped by labour, materials, and power. Challenging the dialectics of top-down and bottom-up, host and guest, carer and cared-for, the lecture rethinks the right to the city and spatial justice through the lens of the right to care.
Dr. Elke Krasny is Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her research and curatorial work interrogate the intersections of care, social reproduction, and social and ecological justice in architecture, urbanism, and spatial practices. Together with Angelika Fitz, Krasny introduced the concept of critical care to analyze the infrastructural, material, social, and ecological dimensions of architecture as a form of care. In recognition of her contributions to feminist research, she was awarded the Gabriele Possanner State Prize in 2023. Her major publications include Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (with Angelika Fitz, MIT Press, 2019), Living with an Infected Planet: Covid-19, Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care (transcript, 2023), and Feminist Infrastructural Critique (with Sophie Lingg and Claudia Lomoschitz, 2024). For further information, see FKW Journal.
