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09.01.25 19h00

The Importance of Design, or What Can Architecture Do?

Daniel Talesnik (Curator of ‘Who’s Next?’ and Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Bath)
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Although architecture alone cannot solve the problem of homelessness, the question arises: What and which roles can it play? Or, to be more precise, how can architecture collaborate with other disciplines in developing ways to permanently house those who do not have a home?

Homelessness — the state of having no home — is a growing global problem that requires local discussions and solutions. In recent years, the official political discourse in many countries around the world implies that poverty is a personal fault, and that if people experience homelessness, it is because they have not tried hard enough to secure shelter and livelihood.

Starting from his curatorial and editorial work in relation to the exhibition and publication ‘Who’s Next? Homelessness, Architecture and Cities’, Daniel Talesnik will present historical and contemporary projects to discuss the role of architecture in developing possible solutions for permanent reintegration of the homeless.

This lecture is organised by Inter-Actions Asbl, in collaboration with LUCA and the Architekturmuseum der TUM, as part of the exhibition ‘Who’s Next? Homelessness, Architecture and Cities’ at neimënster.

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Daniel Talesnik

Curator of the exhibition ‘Who’s Next? Homelessness, Architecture and Cities’ and Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Bath

Daniel Talesnik is a trained architect specializing in modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism, with a particular focus on architectural pedagogy and relationships between architecture and political ideologies. He was awarded a PhD by Columbia University in 2016 with the dissertation The Itinerant Red Bauhaus, or the Third Emigration, which describes a group of Bauhaus students that followed Hannes Meyer to the Soviet Union in 1930.

 

He has taught studio and history / theory courses at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation, and Planning and the School of Architecture at the Universidad Católica of Chile. In 2016–2017 he was a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

 

Between 2017 and 2022 he worked at the Architekturmuseum of the Technische Universität München where he curated Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures (2019), Who’s Next? Homelessness, Architecture, and Cities (2021-2022), and is the co-editor of both exhibition catalogues. He is currently a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Bath.