Petra Malinská

Petra Malinská studied Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences at TU Delft (MSc cum laude) and Architecture and Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague (Ing. arch.). In 2025, she received the CBE Graduation Award for her master’s thesis, Post-Military Landscapes. She is currently studying Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, and is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM), in the Theory and History of Modern and Contemporary Art programme.

Her work brings together architecture, urbanism and the humanities, exploring the relationships between space, everyday life and society. Her research focuses on public space, care, ageing, everyday life in the city, and the adaptation of the existing building stock. She is co-author of an academic article on the standardisation of pre-school facilities in post-war Czechoslovakia and author of texts on public space, care and contemporary architecture. Since 2024, she has been part of the architectural studio collcoll, where she contributes to projects at a range of scales.  

Malinská, P., Hrubeš, J. (2026). Typification of Preschools in Post-War Czechoslovakia: Prague Housing Estates Case Study. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Urban Design and Planning, 179(1), 58–68. https://doi.org/10.1680/jurdp.25.00037

Conceived, Perceived and Lived Space: Forms of Care in Prague's Public Space

The project examines public space through the lens of care, focusing on the relationship between its conceived, perceived and lived dimensions. It uses Lefebvre’s spatial triad as its theoretical framework and brings together perspectives from urban anthropology, urbanism and architectural theory. It focuses on different forms of care, as well as their absence, and on relationships between people, the environment and more-than-human actors in two locations in Prague’s Old Town.

These relationships are explored through a combination of ethnographic research and spatial analysis. Public space is understood here relationally – not as a mere physical environment, but as a space co-produced through social, political, material and ecological relations. The research aims to understand how these relations relate to everyday practices of care and how they are reflected in the ways public space is conceived, perceived and lived.