As a site of the ambivalent entanglement of architectural
innovation and the gendered division of labor, it serves as the point of departure for a critical interrogation of topology:
In what ways do kitchens structure social relations and reproductive labor within capitalist economies? What is the emancipatory
potential of architectural design in this context?
The conference addresses these questions from the vantage point of
the Frankfurt Kitchen’s position in twentieth-century architectural history, conceiving it as a nexus of transnational
discourses on the relations on labor, gender, economy, technology, and social reproduction. It situates Schütte-Lihotzky’s
kitchen designs in relation to contemporaneous and later positions, and spans a trajectory from alternative models of community-building
to a critical engagement with the musealization of the Frankfurt Kitchen and other iconic designs of international
modernism, to the logics of the kitchen as a design object between status symbol and serialization.
The papers and discussions
will be held in German and English. Translation tools will be available on site. The conference will be recorded.
No
registration is required, we look forward to seeing you there!
Welcome remarks by: Judith Augustinovič,
Martina Griesser-Stermscheg and Cosima Rainer
With contributions by: Renate
Allmayer-Beck, Bettina Buchendorfer, Eva Engelbert, Ljubica Jakšić, Maria Shéhérazade Giudici, Ruth Hanisch, Waltraud P. Indrist,
Juliet Kinchin, Stefanie Kitzberger, Mara Sánchez Llorens, Christine Oertel, Monika Platzer, Brigitte Podgorschek PRINZpod,
Anna Puigjaner, Bernadette Reinhold, Barbara Reisinger, Christina Schraml, Anna Stuhlpfarrer, Roswitha Väth, Marie-Noëlle
Yazdanpanah, Jenni Tischer, and Christine Zwingl
Keynote: Mary McLeod, Columbia University, New
York
Developed by Stefanie Kitzberger and Bernadette Reinhold (Collection
and Archive, University of Applied Arts Vienna) in cooperation with Judith Augustinovič,
Christine Oertel, and Christine Zwingl (Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Center, Vienna)
Organization: Anja Seipenbusch-Hufschmied
