This autumn’s Open Architecture Lecture Series is curated by Mira Samonig, a doctoral student at the EKA Faculty of Architecture and one of the curators of the 2026 Tallinn Architecture Biennale, under the overarching title Standby.
On November 26 at 6 pm Mireia Luzárraga will give a lecture “Unlearning the Anthropocene” at EKA lecture hall A-101.
Mireia Luzárraga is an Assistant Professor and first-year studio Coordinator at Columbia University GSAPP. Together with Alejandro Muiño, she founded and runs TAKK, a research-driven design practice based between Barcelona and New York. Luzárraga’s work focuses on how design can catalyse egalitarian societies by incorporating feminism, queer ecologies and posthuman studies into spatial practices. Her and TAKK’s projects are widely published, acquired by international collections, showcased in exhibitions and biennales, not least the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2026, and presented in a wide range of talks. In this lecture, she will discuss design and architecture through the prism of ecologies to move beyond the Anthropocene as an engineering problem. Design comes to encompass a simultaneous pushback against reactionary notions of “nature” – from established constructs of the nuclear family and domestic space to spaces of capitalist productivity.
Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Faculty of Architecture of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.
The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture.
Autumn 2026 programme:
October 1 – Alejandro Aravena “Elemental’s Toolkit”
October 15 – Gabu Heindl “Radical democracy in thinking, building, maintaining”
November 19 – Zoë Ritts “Loving, Iron: The spatial envelopes of German migration law”
November 26 – Mireia Luzárraga “Unlearning the Anthropocene”
All lectures are held on Thursdays at 6 pm in the EKA main auditorium. All lectures are in English and free of charge.
The lecture series is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Previous open architecture lectures can be viewed at www.avatudloengud.ee