Bernadette Krejs
spricht mit
spricht mit
Kadambari Baxi
Climate, Labor, and Reproductive Justice
Wohngespräche
25. November 2025
Kadambari Baxi
CLAIMING*SPACES in conversation with Kadambari Baxi about "Climate, Labor, and Reproductive Justice"
Kadambari Baxi's architecture + media practice focuses on designing exhibitions where art, research, and activism converge to foster public pedagogy on vital socio-political issues of today. She will share excerpts from recent projects where concerns for abortion access, climate justice, and fair labor practices, spur different forms of architectural activism, including: Trigger Planting, public installations that address the changing landscapes of reproductive healthcare; Climate Justice WTF, a film essay that pairs protests at global climate summits and legal arguments from a youth climate lawsuit; and WBYA? (Who Builds Your Architecture?), an advocacy project that examines challenges faced by construction workers on architectural sites. Using diverse representational techniques to connect dispersed sites and unseen problematics, these projects offer ways to view architecture from within many other domains and highlight what is often outside its frame. By reorienting design practices and discourses towards human rights, climate transitions, and ethical actions, the projects collectively outline a new agenda for activism in architecture.
Kadambari Baxi
Kadambari Baxi is an architect and educator based in New York. Her practice combines architecture, media and interdisciplinary collaborations to produce research-based exhibitions and public installations. As Professor of Professional Practice in Architecture, she teaches design studios and environmental visualization seminars at Barnard College, Columbia University.
kbaxi.net
Kadambari Baxi's architecture + media practice focuses on designing exhibitions where art, research, and activism converge to foster public pedagogy on vital socio-political issues of today. She will share excerpts from recent projects where concerns for abortion access, climate justice, and fair labor practices, spur different forms of architectural activism, including: Trigger Planting, public installations that address the changing landscapes of reproductive healthcare; Climate Justice WTF, a film essay that pairs protests at global climate summits and legal arguments from a youth climate lawsuit; and WBYA? (Who Builds Your Architecture?), an advocacy project that examines challenges faced by construction workers on architectural sites. Using diverse representational techniques to connect dispersed sites and unseen problematics, these projects offer ways to view architecture from within many other domains and highlight what is often outside its frame. By reorienting design practices and discourses towards human rights, climate transitions, and ethical actions, the projects collectively outline a new agenda for activism in architecture.
Kadambari Baxi
Kadambari Baxi is an architect and educator based in New York. Her practice combines architecture, media and interdisciplinary collaborations to produce research-based exhibitions and public installations. As Professor of Professional Practice in Architecture, she teaches design studios and environmental visualization seminars at Barnard College, Columbia University.
kbaxi.net
