May 12, 2026: conversation – Zoning Desire: The Politics of Urban Space
Join a public conversation about community-led housing, feminist activism, and alternative urban imaginaries.
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- Entry fee
- Free
- Location
- Rijksakademie Reading Room
- Exhibition window
- May 12, 2026
About
Event
- Tuesday 12 May 2026, 19.00
- Rijksakademie Reading Room
- Entrance free, RSVP required
Overview
A public conversation examining what present-day practices of community-led and gender-inclusive housing can learn from histories of sex workers' resistance and feminist housing activism in the Netherlands. The panel departs from archival and lived histories of De Rode Draad and the Vrouwen Bouwen Wonen network, bringing together perspectives from architecture, sound studies, counter-mapping, and sex workers' rights.
Panelists
- Metje Blaak, writer, activist, and former sex worker; press spokesperson for De Rode Draad
- Pamela Jordan, licensed architect and researcher at University of Amsterdam; founder of Site Sounding Office
- Anna Sejbæk Torp-Pedersen, art historian and PhD student at KU Leuven; researches counter-mapping practices
- Dr. Lidewij Tummers, building engineer specializing in inclusive and sustainable housing
Organized by
- Polina Kanis, artist and Rijksakademie alum
- Virág Szentkirályi, curator and cultural producer
- Entry fee
- Free to enter
- Theme
- Drawing on histories of sex workers' resistance and feminist housing activism in the Netherlands, the discussion explores how alternative ways of perceiving and inhabiting space can inform contemporary approaches to care, solidarity, and participatory urban practice.
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