4 May 2026, 6:00 PM
Kafkárna – Centre for Art and Ecology, Buštěhradská 2, Prague 6
The lecture will be held in English. Depending on the needs of the participants, the discussion will take place in Czech or English.
The Centre for Art and Ecology Kafkárna is organizing a lecture by Amsterdam-based researcher Agata Guńka. In her presentation, she will focus on the complexity of feminist care-sharing in collaborative housing and explore how care is, or can be, lived as a shared practice.
Despite being at the centre of our lives and communities, everyday care work continues to be increasingly undervalued, individualised and gendered. Collaborative housing projects, which are built on intentional shared living, are sometimes seen as a potential solution to that, offering a space for communal living, but also sharing of care beyond our immediate families. Yet, navigating communal living can often carry its own challenges and the radical restructuring of care work is not self-evident. Based on fieldwork in Denmark and the Netherlands, this lecture will dive into the complexities of feminist commoning of care in collaborative housing and look how care is/can be lived as communal practice.
Agata is an Amsterdam-based researcher with a background in Urban Studies. She is interested in critical approaches to housing and likes to experiment with crafts and community-based research methodologies. Together with Margareta Reljić, she conducted research on care work in collaborative housing projects. Apart from academia, she is engaged in tenant organising, co-organises regular linocut printing sessions at a community centre De Voorkamer and contributes to a grassroot cinema Ventilator.
The event is organized by the Občina collective in collaboration with Kafkárna (UMPRUM).