Hélène Frichot - Creative Ecologies - Going Public Lecture Series #14

This lecture draws on some of the speculative feminist gestures discussed in Creative Ecologies: Theorising the Practice of Architecture (2018) and How to Make Yourself a Feminist Design Power Tool (2016). The gestures of surveying, gleaning, and thinking, for instance, all describe material processes of making do, of following the materials of our environment-worlds. Entangled as we are in the midst of concatenating planetary crises, what everyday tactics of coping can we collaboratively foster as design thinkers and doers? Rather than seeking neat solutions, the challenge, as Donna Haraway and other thinkers for the environment have argued, is how to ‘stay with the trouble’ to live as best we can, to make do. Introduction by Thierry Berlemont Many thanks to all the attendees and especially to Hélène Frichot for this amazing lecture. A special thanks also to Thierry Berlemont, who curated this lecture. Also many thanks to Julie Maselis for editing the video. We gladly present you our virtual lectures, allowing us to continue this series with many more lectures to come! The GOING PUBLIC program of the Faculty of Architecture is a series of lectures, exhibitions and publications organized throughout the year highlighting certain themes and topics that are important within each of the 4+1 Engagements: Urban Cultures, Mediating Tactics, Craftsmanship, Legacy and the Brussels Way. Follow us on Instagram @goingpublic_kul and facebook @sintlucasarchitectuur or visit our website https://arch.kuleuven.be/nieuws-agenda and blog http://www.blog-archkuleuven.be to stay up to date with the upcoming programme!