Performing the Counter-Mapping as Intervening Drawing
In a collaborative dialogue, Diana Lucas-Drogan and Lidia Gasperoni will explore the performative value of counter-mapping employed as an intervening practice. Lidia Gasperoni, philosopher and architectural theorist, will introduce the concept of media agency as a theoretical paradigm to understand the generative value of media as aesthetic practices of materialization and externalization. In this perspective, the project Haut von Hellersdorf developed by Diana Lucas-Drogan is particularly significant inscribing the mapping on the fabric worn and performing it as a situated and participatory practice. The mapping becomes a body-space-material political intervention.
Lidia Gasperoni is a philosopher and architectural theorist. She is a postdoc research and teaching associate at the Department of Architectural Theory of TU Berlin since 2018. She studied philosophy in Rome, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Berlin. She obtained her PhD from the TU Berlin and an associate professor habilitation in Italy in the field of aesthetics. Her publications include: Media Agency, with Christophe Barlieb (transcript 2020); Construction and Design Manual: Experimental Diagrams in Architecture (DOM publishers 2022); and Epistemic Artefacts: A Dialogical Reflection on Design Research in Architecture, with Matthias Ballestrem (AADR 2023).
Diana Lucas-Drogan is a trained architect. Diana works on the intersection between critical education, art, feminist planning culture and curating. In the last years she worked in the public service and led the communal office for urban planning / economic development and building law in Waren (Müritz). In her academic career she taught at the TU Berlin in the master and bachelor program and was a longtime lecturer at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Tatjana Schneider at the TU Braunschweig. As a member of metroZones | Center for Urban Affairs she researches and produces urban discourse in various formats (publication, exhibition, public talks). In 2021 metroZones curated the exhibition »Mapping Along: Recording Margins of Conflicts« with an intense supplementary program at the Kunstraum Bethanien. Her textile mappings are exhibited at the nGbK – the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (New Society for Visual Art) / Art in the Underground (»Skin of Hellersdorf«), HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt (»Connecting spaces –digital, urban and trans-local relations and strategies«), Art Biennial GORKI (2. Berliner Herbstsalon »Berlin Field Recodings: Mappings Along the Refugee Complex«), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (»City as Byte«), Venice Architecture Bienniale 2021 (metroZones »We have nothing to lose but our supply chains«). She was the urban curator of »WERTstadt – Performative Urbanism«, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen.