May 8–10, 2025
IASPIS welcomes you to a series of conversations sharing perspectives of how critical spatial practice responds to crisis, conflicts and complex contexts, organising persistence, solidarity, repair and care. Pre-registration only, limited availability. RSVP to me@iaspis.se (indicate event).
On the occasion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, IASPIS presents three public gatherings in relation to the projects Practice Matters, Architecture of Repair in Palestine and Urgent Pedagogies.
Programme
Thursday May 8, 9:30am–1pm
Practice Matters: Organising Persistence
Practice Matters is a project inquiring, highlighting and discussing design, architecture, spatial and urban practice and its ability to act in relation to present urgent issues of crisis and conflicts. This gathering discusses how practice may organise and persist in relation to different contexts and conditions. Presentations and discussions with Danica Sretenović and Debra Solomon (Krater Collective), Aljaž Škrlep (Robida Collective), Bianca Elzenbaumer (La Foresta), Merve Gül Özokcu and Mina Öner (Herkes için Mimarlık / Architecture for All), introduction and moderation by Magnus Ericson and Eylül Şenses.
Friday, May 9, 9:30am–1pm
Architecture of Repair in Palestine
Architecture of Repair in Palestine is a nomadic forum that brings together architects, conservators, artists, community members, activists and academics to discuss, imagine and elaborate visions of repair for the liberation of Palestine and engage with the question: What does repair mean amid genocide and mass destruction? And, is it even still a possibility? A conversation hosted by Emilio Distretti and Husam Abusalem, with Dima Srouji, Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari, Adrian Lahoud, Dubravka Sekulić, Michal Murawski and Thandi Loewenson.
Saturday, May 10, 9:30am–1pm
Urgent Pedagogies: Practicing Care
Urgent Pedagogies is a project and platform focusing on socially engaged critical spatial practice, alternative pedagogies and how to act in relation and response to urgencies of social justice and equality, contested territories and conditions of conflict. The event explores different approaches and environments for practicing care in relation to overlapping crises. Presentations and conversations with Malkit Shoshan, Socrates Stratis, Anna Puigjaner and Ethel Baraona Pohl, response by Silvia Franceschini, introduction and moderation Pelin Tan and Magnus Ericson.
Notions of Irreverence is presented by IASPIS in collaboration with Salt, Krater Collective and the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London.
IASPIS is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international Programme for Visual and Applied Arts. IASPIS’ programme includes residencies in Sweden and abroad, public programmes in Sweden and internationally, publications, expert visits, regional and international collaboration projects, and an archive.
