Keynote speakers

Elke Krasny, PhD, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Krasny focuses on concerns of care, commemorative practices, transnational feminisms and social and ecological practices in architecture, infrastructure, urbanism, and critical pedagogies of the arts. Krasny was a fellow at the CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture. Her curatorial work on Hands-on Urbanism was shown at the 2012 Venice Biennale for Architecture. Together with Angelika Fitz she edited Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (MIT Press, 2019). Her book Living with an Infected Planet. Covid-19 Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care (transcript publishers, 2023) focuses on militarized care.