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Lecture with Jos Boys - Productive Frictions: re-imagining creative practices through disability and difference

Tuesday, 17 November 2026, 19:00
KIT-Fakultät für Architektur
Grüne Grotte
Englerstraße 7
76131 Karlsruhe

Jos Boys is an architecture-trained activist, educator, artist and writer, whose work focuses on disability, inclusion and architecture. She was a founder member of Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative and co-author of their 1984 book Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment (Pluto Press 1984/Verso 2022): and is currently completing their online archive, Matrix Open. From 2008 to 2026 she was co-director of The DisOrdinary Architecture Project with disabled artist Zoe Partington, a disability-led platform that works with disabled artists to explore new ways to think about disability in architectural and design discourse and practice. Her books include Doing Disability Differently (Routledge 2014) and Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader (Routledge 2017). She is currently focusing on her own creative art practice. 

 

Participants: Professorship for Architecture Theory and saai | Archive for Architecture and Engineering

Organizer
ARCH-FAK Kalenderadmin
Fakultät Architektur
KIT
Englerstraße 7
76131 Karlsruhe
Mail: dorothea egger ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
https://www.arch.kit.edu
Targetgroup
Interested / Everyone

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