Elke Krasny

Elke Krasny is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her research focuses on care, commemorative practices, transnational feminisms, and social and ecological practices in architecture, infrastructure, urbanism, and critical pedagogies of the arts. Krasny was a fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Her curatorial work on “Hands-on Urbanism” was shown at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Together with Angelika Fitz, Krasny edited Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (MIT Press, 2019). Her book Living with an Infected Planet: Covid-19 Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care (transcript publishers, 2023) focuses on militarized care essentialism and feminist recovery plans in pandemic times.