Gregor Taul’s venia legendi lecture 13 May 2025

Taul will introduce his lecture with the following words:

The title of the lecture is borrowed from Donna Haraway’s book “Staying with the Trouble”, which was recently published in Estonian by the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Haraway calls on readers to take action and develop utopian thought, because in the Cthulhucene, or post-Anthropocene world, neither we nor other species will survive by sitting still. In addition to the powerful manifesto of species diversity, Haraway’s book is also simply a very enjoyable language game and a firework of dialectical thinking, against the backdrop of which it is interesting to think about who the Estonian Academy of Sciences answers to and for whom and for what it is responsible. In the lecture, Taul will discuss the position of both interior architecture and general theory classes and propose some future scenarios.