Environmental destruction is accelerating, and climate degradation is deepening. In response, artists and architects around the world are reimagining what it means to care—with and for the planet. They are attuning to the needs of environments and species beyond the human, designing buildings that act responsibly, and crafting infrastructures that sustain rather than consume.
Elke Krasny and Jenny Marketou during their discussion will share how their artistic, architectural and curatorial practices respond to the urgencies of our time by noticing, making, working with, and practicing care beyond the human. Together, they explore how imagining, building, and creating otherwise is not only possible—but already taking place.
The discussion opens space to reflect on how art can nurture relations, reimagine value, and activate new forms of togetherness.
Elke Krasny
Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Dr. Elle Krasny’s research is concerned with social and environmental care in architecture, urbanism, and contemporary art practices. Her scholarship also contributes to the field of museology and curating, in particular feminist and queer activism in curating and urban curating. Elle Krasny co-edited Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet with Angelika Fitz (MIT Press, 2019), Radicalizing Care. Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating (Sternberg Press, 2021), Feminist Infrastructural Critique with Sophie Lingg and Claudia Lomoschitz (FKW Journal, 2024), and Abundance not Capital. The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo (with Angelika Fitz, MIT Press, 2025).
Jenny Marketou
Greek born, is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. She is a professor at The New School for Social Research / Parsons in New York. Through public art and video installations, Marketou transforms public spaces into platforms for ecological awareness and collective action. Her work connects art, science, technology, and community, reimagining our relationship with water, the earth, nature, and more-than-human species. Her work has been presented internationally in major institutions and exhibitions, including Documenta 14, Manifesta, the São Paulo Biennale, Museo Reina Sofía, ZKM, Queens Museum, and the New Museum. Her practice has been supported by fellowships, commissions, and residencies such as the permanent public artwork Inside the Belly of the Garden with Turning the Tide International Lab in Vienna, Rivering with The Billion Oyster Project in New York, and most recently the River Cities International Lab in Stockholm.In September 2025, her public artwork Folly for Songs for FUNK Kinships — a bioclimatic architectural commission by ANNEX M — was inaugurated in Megaron Garden. Marketou is also the author of Futuring Waters: A Speculative Manifesto for the Rights of Water (2024).
The discussion will be held in English.
Q&A to follow.
