Matri-Archi(tecture) on: CRITICAL, CONVIVIAL, COLLABORATIVE RESONANCE / Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk

Representing Matri-Archi(tecture), Khensani will be sharing a set of reflections on Matri-Archi(tecture) as a project of collectivising, conviviality and collaboration. One way to understand resonance is as something having the power to evoke enduring images, memories, and emotions. Another way to understand resonance is as a deep reverberation, reciprocating a felt dialogue and response. Through this lens, Khensani will share some of the projects that the organisation have done in the past years ranging across architectural interventions, artistic installations and multi-media research. This offering is an invitation to think about the processes that manifest projects. Over the years, Matri-Archi(tecture) has developed and continues to develop a methodological approach grounded on and reliant upon critical, convivial and collaborative resonance. Matri-Archi(tecture) believes that designing methodology is as important as designing form. The reflections in this offering are situated within a larger ongoing project that asks: under what conditions can we collaborate, when we design the conditions?

Matri-Archi(tecture) is an association that hosts a network of African and diasporic spatial practitioners dedicated to learning about their histories, realities and imaginaries through spatial expression. Matri-Archi offers a site for artistic collaboration through design, art and architectural research projects.
Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk is an architectural researcher, designer and performer. She is the founder of Matri-Archi(tecture) and a doctoral fellow at the gta, ETH Zürich. Through her multidisciplinary approach, Khensani mobilises visual, written and sonic expressions to remember histories untold and imagine possibilities yet to unfold. Her practice positions architecture as a spatial storyteller.

Lecture and conversation in the framework of the course Diversity Aspects in Building Sciences and Environment with a focus on Critical Design Studies and Spatial Practices lead by Marlene Wagner. (marlene.wagner@tuwien.ac.at)
With the support of the master program Building Sciences and Environment, the Claiming*Spaces Collective and the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning, TU Wien.
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