Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk (she/her) is an architect from Johannesburg (SA). She is the founder of Matri-Archi(tecture) and a doctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) ETH Zürich. 

Maria Conen (she/her) co-founded Conen Sigl Architekt:innen in Zurich and is a Professor at ETH Zurich, focusing on housing and adaptive reuse of habitats and architecture.

Oliver Lütjens (he/him), born 1972, co-founded Lütjens Padmanabhan Architects, focusing largely on housing projects in Switzerland. He teaches architecture at ETH Zürich and Harvard.


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Juan Barcia Mas (he/him) is an architect, writer and curator. Since 2023, he has been a scientific assistant at the NEWROPE Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation, ETH Zürich.

Sophie Delhay (she/her) is an associate professor at the EPF Lausanne. Her practice experiments on schemes designed to destandardize outdated models –particularly that of the single-family dwelling. 

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Architects have long been complicit in the ‘othering’ of older people, perpetuating a state of spatial ageism that strips older people of their complexity and agency. In this lecture, Mark will explore the different ways that architects have conceptualised older people - as patient, customer and citizen - reflecting on his current research with older housing activists in Manchester, UK. He will explore how older people have responded to issues of gentrification and austerity through creativity, performance and protest, and how the group co-produced vision of a new type of ‘retirement community’ grounded in joy, inclusion and collective action.

Mark Hammond (he/him) is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture. His research focuses on the intersections between architecture and urban ageing within the home, community and city, with a specific interest in housing inequality and spatial justice.


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Designing for Ageing, Agency and Activism

During this seminar week, together with the students of A2 Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM), we will imagine, design, and build a kitchen to empower non-normative bodies and invite diverse communities to cook collectively.
Over the last decades, collective cooking has been actively and increasingly practised by different social groups to build solidarity and resilience. Various groups have incubated and shaped forms of alternative kinship outside prevailing power structures, where pleasure, nourishment, and memories are cultivated. The kitchen can become an urban infrastructure for care, as a means to improve quality of life and support more resilient urban communities for the city of Prague.
Meanwhile, it can be argued that our vision of the kitchen is still very much based on the domestic typology, mostly devised for one-person cooking, and which does not recognise the non-conforming body.
To transgress the normative kitchen, we will envision anti-ageist rela-tionalities, crip behaviours, cultural diversity, and disruptive cooking practices through a design-build workshop.
We will be paired with UMPRUM students and work collectively in groups for the design-build task. We will visit a variety of architectural precedents, and meet with architects, activists, and political agents.
The course is structured and will be accompanied by the Chair of Architecture and Care (Anna Puigjaner, Dafni Retzepi, and He Shen together with Ethel Baraona Pohl, Lisa Maillard, and Pol Esteve Castelló) and the A2 Studio team at UMPRUM (Eva Franch i Gilabert, Katerina Videnová, and Albeta Bruhová).


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Urban Kitchen

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These are my Hours: Care and Self-Determined Birth Spaces of labour

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OJA Extension: A Threshold of Expression

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Events

Interim Review II

Interim Review II

Designing for Ageing, Agency and Activism

Urban Kitchen

Work

These are my Hours: Care and Self-Determined Birth Spaces of labour

The nursery

OJA Extension: A Threshold of Expression

Unclear Nuclear