Notions of Irreverence: three conversations at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
IASPIS is welcoming you to a series of conversations sharing perspectives of how critical spatial practice responds to crisis, conflicts and complex contexts, organising persistence, solidarity, repair and care.
On the occasion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, IASPIS presents three public gatherings in relation to the projects Practice Matters, Architecture of Repair in Palestine and Urgent Pedagogies.
Programme
Thursday 8th May, 9.30AM–1PM
Practice Matters: Organising Persistence
Practice Matters is a project inquiring, highlighting and discussing design, architecture, spatial and urban practice and its ability to act in relation to present urgent issues of crisis and conflicts. This gathering discusses how practice may organise and persist in relation to different contexts and conditions. Presentations and discussions with Danica Sretenović and Debra Solomon (Krater Collective), Aljaž Škrlep (Robida Collective), Bianca Elzenbaumer (La Foresta), Merve Gül Özokcu and Mina Öner (Herkes için Mimarlık / Architecture for All), introduction and moderation by Magnus Ericson and Eylül Şenses.
Friday 9th May, 9.30AM–1PM
Architecture of Repair in Palestine
Architecture of Repair in Palestine is a nomadic forum that brings together architects, conservators, artists, community members, activists and academics to discuss, imagine and elaborate visions of repair for the liberation of Palestine and engage with the question: What does repair mean amid genocide and mass destruction? And, is it even still a possibility? A conversation hosted by Emilio Distretti and Husam Abusalem, with Dima Srouji, Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari, Adrian Lahoud, Dubravka Sekulić, Michal Murawski and Thandi Loewenson.
Saturday 10th May 9.30AM–1PM
Urgent Pedagogies: Practicing Care
Urgent Pedagogies is a project and platform focusing on socially engaged critical spatial practice, alternative pedagogies and how to act in relation and response to urgencies of social justice and equality, contested territories and conditions of conflict. The event explores different approaches and environments for practicing care in relation to overlapping crises. Presentations and conversations with Malkit Shoshan, Socrates Stratis, Anna Puigjaner and Ethel Baraona Pohl, response by Silvia Franceschini, introduction and moderation Pelin Tan and Magnus Ericson.
Notions of Irreverence is presented by IASPIS in collaboration with Salt, Krater Collective and the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London.
Practice Matters is an IASPIS project and platform for inquiring, highlighting and discussing design, architecture, spatial and urban practice and its ability to act in relation to present urgent issues of crisis and conflicts. Bringing together a plurality of practices, fields of knowledge and experiences, the project aims to serve as a common space and resource to discuss, think together, (un-)learn and (re-)think the role and possibilities of design, architecture, spatial and urban practice today. Practice Matters is developed and pursued by IASPIS in collaboration with Salt.
Architecture of Repair in Palestine is a nomadic forum that brings together architects, conservators, artists, community members, activists and academics to discuss, imagine and elaborate visions of repair for the liberation of Palestine. The project manifests through multiple/parallel collaboration taking different shapes in discussions, conversations, workshops, practice, and writings. Architecture of Repair in Palestine is organised in collaboration with the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London.
Urgent Pedagogies is an IASPIS project and platform for inquiry, sharing knowledge and experience on how socially engaged critical spatial practice may act in relation and response to the urgencies of social justice and equality, contested territories and conditions of conflict, and though strategies and settings for learning, un-learning, thinking together, and alternative forms of producing and sharing knowledge. The project is developed and pursued by Magnus Ericson, Head of Applied Arts, IASPIS and Pelin Tan, sociologist, curator and Professor, Fine Arts Faculty, Batman University, Turkey.