Lecture: “Loving, Iron: The spatial envelopes of German migration law”
Zoë Ritts is an architect from Toronto / Tkarón:to, based between Berlin and New Haven. She is currently pursuing a post-professional Master of Environmental Design at Yale University, directed by Keller Easterling. Her practice spans art, design and writing; her research focuses on the politics of urban space and inhabitation. She has cofounded several artistic projects, such as Architektur-In-Residency e.V. or Questions on Dwelling, and taught design and theory at Technische Universität München and Humboldt-Universität Berlin. She has edited publications on architecture, art and urbanism, including Para-Platforms (co-edited with Markus Miessen, Sternberg Press, 2019), The Office of Good Intentions: Human(s) Work (Taschen, 2022), “Designing Justice in the City” (City 28, 2024). In this lecture, Zoë will share her current research on how migration law writes itself into space and bodies. Drawing on examples from actual design practices and legal frameworks, the talk works toward practices of resistance under legal and physical pressure.
