Lecture by Niki Sorvani “Map-writing for feminist and queer approaches”

Thursday 26/3/2026 14:00-17:00 - Οnline - https://msteams.link/KSD2

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The lecture will take place online in the framework of the course: Special Topics In Theory of Architecture Ii: Decolonising Architecture (Instructor: P. Phokaides, Ass. Prof. Dept. of Arch, UTh)

Short bio:
Niki Sorvani is an architect from the Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly, whose academic and research activity lies at the intersection of architecture, feminist geography, and queer spatial studies. She holds a PhD from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), focusing on critical analysis of normativity in modernism through the Paradigm of Ernst Neufert's architectural standards handbook, a MSc in Design-Space-Culture from NTUA and a MA in Gender, Society, and Politics from Panteion University. Her research focuses on the gendered and embodied dimensions of space. Her monograph  Inhabiting the Uncanny: Toward a Spatial Exploration of the “Closet” was published in 2025. She has additionally participated at conferences, with publications in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, as well as lectures whose central theoretical axis is a feminist and queer approach to space — from the scale of the body and the house to the urban environment.