Barcelona-based architect studio, TAKK and participants of the 3-day building workshop host a brunch discussing interspecies architecture. After sharing insights, challenges and outcomes of Assembling: Props for Learning, the duo will engage in dialogue with Reorientations curator Rosario Talevi addressing issues around the ecologies and design of living spaces for a wide range of users - human and non-human- and its implications within the current climate emergency and ecological breakdown.
TAKK
TAKK is a space for architectural production focused on the development of material practices in the intersection of nature, culture, technology and politics, with particular attention to the challenges raised by the age of Anthropocene. TAKK’s architectural experiments are test sites for exploring critical architecture that aims at building more open societies. While TAKK’s choices of materials and forms can seem at odds with the idea of an ecologically aware practice, the studio sources from regional supply chains and off-the-shelf supplies as a means of localizing and customizing. Much of their design work is also invested in a disassembly process after the facts of use, in which the afterlife of objects and materials are considered with the same intention and scrutiny as their assembly. Finally, working in the specter of modernism, the use of colors and ornament become overtly political gestures for TAKK.
ROSARIO TALEVI
Rosario Talevi is a Berlin-based architect, curator, editor and educator interested in critical spatial practice (Rendell), transformative pedagogies and feminist futures. Her work advances architecture as a form of agency – in its transformative sense and in its capacity for acting otherwise (Schneider) and as a form of care – one that provides the political stakes to repair our broken world (Tronto). Rosario is a founding member of Soft Agency, a diasporic group of female architects, artists, curators, scholars and writers working with spatial practices and Floating e.V., the non-for-profit association organising, programming and maintaining Floating University in Berlin. She was Guest Professor of Social Design (2021-22) at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK) in Hamburg. Currently, she is a fellow at the Thomas Mann Haus in Los Angeles, California.
SUBJECT STUDIES
Subject Studies is a new annual series offering practical and non-practical public engagements, initiated by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Its inaugural theme, Reorientations, developed by MAK Center Director Jia Yi Gu and Rosario Talevi, directs questions towards institutional habits, routines and practices through perspectives of care, repair and transformation.
This program is supported in part by the California Arts Council Recovery Grant, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles (DCA), PICE AC/E's Programme for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture, and Thomas Mann House.
Image Credit: TAKK Architecture.
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SUBJECT STUDIES: REORIENTATIONS
December 06, 2022 – December 11, 2022
