Petra Hlaváčková is an art historian, curator, and cultural critic. She is interested in gender perspectives
in architecture and urban planning, feminist theories, and gender politics during state socialism. She has
received several international fellowships, such as Aktion Österreich, Artist in Residence MQ Vienna,
and Milena Jesenská Fellowship at IWM Vienna.
She is co-founder of 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media, editor of the Brno Architectural Manual
(www.bam.brno.cz), and curator of the exhibitions Revolting People (2011), Compact City (2011) and Kill
your Fuchs / Kill your Idols (Brno 2011, Leipzig 2013, Asking Architecture in the CS Pavilion at the 13th
Venice Architecture Biennale 2012). She is the co-author of the films Once You Have a Job, You Have
Everything (2016) and Living Against Everyone (2021), and the editor of the books Architecture of Care
(2019) and Brno for All. Sensitive City Planning (2022). She has worked as an editor of magazines A2
and ERA21 (ERA 21 Liberated Space, 01/2016). She is the initiator of the research workshop Move the
City (Cracks/Situations, Villa Tugendhat 2021).
She is a PhD student at UMPRUM in Prague (LIBERATED SPACE. Feminist Strategies in Architecture
and Urbanism) and a member of the research team of the project Architecture (f.). Women,
Emancipation, Architecture in the Second Half of the 20th century (GAČR 21-22749S).
LIBERATED SPACE
Feminist Strategies in Architecture and Urbanism
This dissertation project explores the topic of gender and feminist approaches in the field of architecture.
In the first part, I address the question of how the category of gender can help us to examine the
construction of discourse in the architectural scene during socialism and how gender culture and state
gender policies and their transformations affected the architectural environment and gender equality. In
the second part, I examine how feminist and queer strategies are transforming the very notion of the field
of architecture and how this different understanding is manifested in the Czech environment.
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