Marija Marić with Ana Miljački
Conversations on Care
Presented with the Architecture and Urbanism Group
ONLINE Webcast
Amidst the “breakdown all around” that characterizes our contemporary experiential and epistemic reality—to study care is, itself, an act of care. Paraphrasing thus Shannon Mattern’s recent statement on maintenance and with a nod to the history of the feminist celebration of the same, in the Conversations on Care series (launched in the fall of 2019), the Critical Broadcasting Lab and Ana Miljački collaborate with the stewards of the architectural public sphere, whose work and platforms traverse different media of architectural broadcasting, from galleries and journals to listservs and podcasts. Conversation as a format of engagement necessarily operates through co-production, which in turn, helps us temper our own megaphones, while we examine the contemporary motivations, politics, interests, as well as the privilege of the caring subjects involved in curatorial, editorial and activist forms of work.
Marija Marić is architect, researcher, and curator based in Luxembourg. She works as a postdoctoral research associate at the Master in Architecture Program, University of Luxembourg, where she also teaches. In 2023, Marija co-curated Luxembourg Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale with an exhibition that critically unpacked the project of space mining, through the perspective of resources. Marija completed her doctoral studies at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich in 2020. Her doctoral dissertation, titled Real Estate Fiction. Branding Industries and the Construction of Global Urban Imaginariesexamined the role of real estate communication strategists in the design, mediation, and globalization of the built environment. Marija’s work has been organized around the questions of property, media, and the production of the built environment and urban imaginaries in the context of global capitalism and global flow of information.
This lecture will be held in person in Long Lounge, 7-429 and streamed online.
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