Lecture by Ioanna Piniara: “Towards an Ecology of the Private: A Manual for the Trigono Community Land Trust in Kessariani” from her book titled “We Have Never Been Private: The Housing Project in Neoliberal Europe”.

Wednesday 11/3/2026 19:00-21:00 - Room Γ and online (MS Teams)

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The lecture will take place in-person and online as part of the course: COHABITING IN THE GARDEN: ARCHITECTURES OF CARE Instructor: P. Fokaidis, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly

Short bio:
Ioanna Piniara is an architect and researcher holding a PhD in Architecture from the Architectural Association (AA). Her research interests include the study of domesticity as a biopolitical device for the control of bodies and identities, the spatial implications of economy, institutional power and policy in the design of urban housing as well as narratives for the decolonization of housing typologies and urban forms. Ioanna has taught History and Theory Studies and Architecture and Urban Design at the AA, and she has been a post-doctoral fellow of the ‘Architectures of Order’ research cluster at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She is currently teaching design and theory seminars at the Architecture School of the National Technical University in Athens. She is the author of “We Have Never Been Private: The Housing Project in neoliberal Europe” by Actar Publishers, 2025, and “The Housing Question is a Feminist Question: Housing Commons for the ‘New Woman’ of the German Werkbund” by M Books, 2026.