Michael Obrist
spricht mit
spricht mit
Ana Filipović
Housing as a Critical Spatial Practice
Wohngespräche
13. Jänner 2025
Ana Filipović
Michael Obrist [feld72] in conversation with Ana Filipović about "Housing as a Critical Spatial Practice"
Housing is a fundamental prerequisite for human well-being, yet it cannot be understood through architectural concerns alone. At the same time, architecture cannot disengage from the social dimensions of housing. This talk draws on Jane Rendell’s notion of Critical Spatial Practice to frame interventions that engage both with material sites and with the disciplinary structures that shape them. These unfold across art and architecture, the private and the public, theory and practice, each inherently critical, spatial, and interdisciplinary. In a time marked by a global housing affordability crisis, when commodification often overshadows the very essence of housing, it becomes urgent to confront the many inequalities bound up with it. Addressing these issues calls for a range of approaches, from artistic and written work to architectural design. The talk presents a series of projects on housing that, each in its own way, challenge prevailing assumptions and expose the inequalities embedded within them, while opening new perspectives on what housing might mean today.
Ana Filipović
Ana Filipović is an architect, spatial designer, and educator. Her work spans art and architecture, theory and practice, engaging with diverse media to critically examine the built environment, with a recurring focus on property relations, collective housing, and intersectional approaches to spatial justice. She pursues independent projects in research, the performing arts, and exhibitions, while also contributing to collaborative endeavors, including as MPF on the façade of a dewatering pump in West Germany. Ana holds degrees from the University of Belgrade and Städelschule Frankfurt, and since 2025 has been Guest Professor of Design and Urban Renewal at the University of the Arts Berlin.
ana-filipovic.com
Housing is a fundamental prerequisite for human well-being, yet it cannot be understood through architectural concerns alone. At the same time, architecture cannot disengage from the social dimensions of housing. This talk draws on Jane Rendell’s notion of Critical Spatial Practice to frame interventions that engage both with material sites and with the disciplinary structures that shape them. These unfold across art and architecture, the private and the public, theory and practice, each inherently critical, spatial, and interdisciplinary. In a time marked by a global housing affordability crisis, when commodification often overshadows the very essence of housing, it becomes urgent to confront the many inequalities bound up with it. Addressing these issues calls for a range of approaches, from artistic and written work to architectural design. The talk presents a series of projects on housing that, each in its own way, challenge prevailing assumptions and expose the inequalities embedded within them, while opening new perspectives on what housing might mean today.
Ana Filipović
Ana Filipović is an architect, spatial designer, and educator. Her work spans art and architecture, theory and practice, engaging with diverse media to critically examine the built environment, with a recurring focus on property relations, collective housing, and intersectional approaches to spatial justice. She pursues independent projects in research, the performing arts, and exhibitions, while also contributing to collaborative endeavors, including as MPF on the façade of a dewatering pump in West Germany. Ana holds degrees from the University of Belgrade and Städelschule Frankfurt, and since 2025 has been Guest Professor of Design and Urban Renewal at the University of the Arts Berlin.
ana-filipovic.com
