Spatial Practices within Architecture – Participation and Resistance

What influence do feminist theories have on architectural practice and planning processes? What role do participation and resistance play in shaping public spaces? How can new strategies for designing public spaces address the needs of marginalized groups, and how can intersectional feminist approaches be applied to our built environment?

The Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning - Design and the Goethe-Institut Denmark invite you to a panel discussion on the complex relationship between feminism, architecture, and public space. Three renowned architecture experts from Germany and Denmark will critically examine the roles of women and marginalized groups in architecture and landscape planning. German and Danish speakers will present and discuss both theoretical and practical approaches to collective organizational models in architecture and landscape planning. Using concrete examples, they will demonstrate how shared spatial strategies can bring about positive change for marginalized groups.

Alesa Mustar

Alesa Mustar studied architecture and urbanism and was Artistic Co-Director of the German Architecture Centre in Berlin from 2020 to the summer of 2024. She works at the interface between curating, urban research and teaching. Her practice is characterised by an intersectional lens that emphasises collectivity, solidarity and just spatial planning.

Martine Lynge Lyngesen

A Danish architect and member of Building Diversity that has just received The Dreyer Foundation Architecture Price. Martine will lecture on political architecture from the perspective of her Danish/Greenlandic background.

Heidi Svenningsen Kajita

Associate professor and architectural researcher working for social change in everyday spaces. Heidi is a member of the research group Landscape Architecture and Urbanism and will moderate the discussion.

Admission is free, and a glass of wine will be served after the discussion