Critical spatial practice (Rendell, 2006) allows for the interdisciplinary exploration of sites, cohabitations and collaborations in the physical public domain. This practice challenges the ethical and political orders governing cities today, and more recently questions how we care for our living environment. The lecture will be drawing on programs that emerged from their immediate contexts: Jardin Essentiel - a public garden in Brussels of over 30 varieties of medicinal and aromatic herbs which hosted two months of experimental design and artistic interventions in 2016, and climate care - a festival for theory and practice rooted at the Floating University Berlin (2019, 2021, 2023).

About the lecturer:
Gilly Karjevsky is a curator of critical spatial practice (Rendell) teaching and curating programs at the intersection of ecology, ethics of care and radical collectivity. For the guest professorship year at HFBK she focuses on social technologies designed to negotiate the spaces between subjectivity and the common good. This concept is linked to her ongoing research into radically local urban curating currently funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste. She is founding association member at Floating University Berlin where she curates Climate Care - a festival for theory and practice on a natureculture learning site, the Urban Practice residency program and a participatory lexicon process. She is founding member of Soft Agency - a diasporic group of feminist spatial practitioners. Gilly is co-director of 72 Hour Urban Action, with a recent monograph published by Archplus documenting a decade of real-time place-making.