You are invited to the Garden Museum for an evening of talks, discussion, and feral vocal bangers.
Bringing together architects, lawyers, landworkers, landscape architects, feminist collectives, and a queer choir, the Garden Museum and Architecture Foundation collaborate on this event exploring queer nature and the right to green space for all.
The night will be framed by an immersive performance by the queer feminist F*Choir, singing and teaching songs to cause a racket, offer kinship, resist and repair. Nestled in the performance will be a presentation by Celine Baumann, recipient of a youth award from the European Federation of Landscape Architects, on queer plants, followed by a discussion with lawyer and Director of Make Space for Girls, Imogen Clark, Alberte Lauridsen of feminist collective Edit, and Carole Wright, activist and founder of Blak Outside.
Trespassing is the latest installment in Judith Lösing’s research fellowship on the London Arboretum, exploring the social and cultural roles of trees. This third Tree Talk concludes a cycle of debates that started last winter with an evening in the Barbican concert hall around local production and care; and continued with a spring discussion about money, growth, and degrowth. This event will centre on gender and protest.
This event has been kindly supported by the Embassy of Switzerland and the Architecture Foundation.
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Alberte Lauridsen
Alberte Lauridsen
Albert Lauridsen is an architect and founding member of a feminist design collective focusing on the enduring biases and hierarchies embedded in the environment surrounding us. They worked for Part W on a map of London that addresses the imbalance of gender representation in architecture, especially as the work of women has 'so often been missed off digital and printed maps, and left out of archives'.
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Carole Wright
Carole Wright
Carole Wright is an artist, activist and gardener, she formed Blak Outside in 2020, as a grassroots, intergenerational collective of working-class social housing residents and the QTIBIPOC (queer, trans, intersex, Black, indigenous, people of colour) community, when she observed that these groups were often excluded from green spaces.
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Celine Baumann
Celine Baumann
Céline Baumann is a French landscape architect operating at the intersection of urbanism and exhibition. She graduated with distinctions from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles in 2010 and gained experience working for the offices Topotek 1, Inside/Outside Petra Blaisse, atelier le balto and Fontana Landschaftsarchitektur before establishing her own office in Basel in 2021. She is visiting professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2022-23).
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Imogen Clarke
Imogen Clarke
Imogen Clark, lawyer and feminist, studied for a post graduate certificate in gender studies at Birkbeck, University of London. In addition to working for Make Space for Girls, she is a trustee of a local food bank and chairs the board of a London based campaigning charity; and reckons that if we want to challenge the unfairness we see around us, we need to campaign for structural change. She will expand on the subject with new results from a Parkwatch survey exploring the justice aspects of gender inequality in teen place spaces in London.
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Judith Lösing
Judith Lösing
Judith Lösing is an architect, joiner and gardener. She is a director at East and the first research fellow at the Architecture Foundation on the social and cultural role of trees in London. On Fridays, she volunteers for the Orchard Project and the Hackney School of Food. Judith’s work at East has won awards at RIBA London, Building Design, New London Architecture, and as Public Realm Architects of the Year.
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Edit Collective
Edit Collective
Edit Collective, a young feminist group of architects and artists will join the debate with their findings designing a map of London for Part W that addresses the imbalance of gender representation in architecture, especially as the work of women has 'so often been missed off digital and printed maps, and left out of archives'.
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F*Choir
F*Choir
F*Choir
F*Choir is a London-based, queer-led, all-genders choir led by performance artist and drummer Jenny Moore. Over the last 6 years, it has grown as a place to gather in body and in voice, to vibrate and move and learn together, using the choir as a form of feminist practice and communal singing as a type of magic. Avoiding sheet music and gendered voice parts, the choir performs Moore’s high-energy arrangements of everything from Meredith Monk to Robyn, to the Greenham Common songbook.
