Dr Kim Trogal

Kim’s research covers the intersecting fields of feminist theory, relational ethics, political economy, ecology and spatial practice.  Her PhD investigated contemporary, spatial practice through the lens of a feminist ethics and politics of care.

The work elaborated ‘care’ as a concept for architecture as a concept that can help interrogate value structures, along with the hierarchies, authority and exclusions that occur when taking responsibility for others, or for a space. 

The thesis particularly investigated care as a collective, civic activity that involves different modes of ownership, property, economy and exchange (commons, mutual aid), and as a practice that involves different gestures and vocabularies (for example of gifts, sharing, hospitality, inclusion).

Kim’s current research examines questions of commons, work and social reproduction in architecture.  This year, Kim has co-organsined the panel ‘The politics of commoning and design’ at the 50^th anniversary conference of the Design Research Society, 2016, and is part of the scientific committee for ‘Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies’, this year’s Architectural Humanities Research Association conference organized by KTH, Stockholm.

Research Outputs and Activities:

In Press:

2016 Petrescu, D. and Trogal, K. eds. The Social Production of Architecture. London: Routledge.

2016 Trogal, K. Caring: Making commons, making connections. Petrescu, D. and Trogal, K. eds., 2016. The Social Production of Architecture. London: Routledge.

2016 Trogal, K. Feminist pedagogies building new political communities. In Schalk, Kristiansson and Östling eds. Feminist Futures. Stockholm: Axl Books.

Graziano, V. and Trogal, K., (forthcoming). The politics of collective repair: examining object-relations in a postwork society. Cultural Studies.

Ferreri, M. and Trogal, K., (forthcoming). “This is a private, public park.”  Between architectures of spectacle and communing in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. CITY. Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action.

In Print:

2016 Graziano, V., Trogal, K., and Elzenbaumer, B. The politics of commoning and design. In Lloyd, P. and Bohemia, B. eds., Proceedings of DRS2016: Design + Research + Society - Future-Focused Thinking, Volume 10, Section 26, pp. 4005-4015, DOI 10.21606/drs.2016.XXX

2015 Trogal, K. Care of commons: an alternative economy and ecology of space. In Odgers, J., Kite, S., McVicar, M., eds., Economy and Architecture. London: Routeldge, 49-58.

2015 Trogal, K. Care of commons, care and commons.  In Benesch, H., Hammami, F., Holmberg, I. Uzer, E., 2015. Heritage as Common(s)-Common(s) as Heritage. Stockholm and Gothenburg: Makadam publishers, 165-185.

2015 Trogal, K. Making resilience: Work and value.  in Manzini, E. and Till, J. eds. Cultures of Resilience. London: Hato Press, 34-38.

2015 Trogal, K., and Petrescu, D. Architecture and resilience on the human scale: Ethical and political concerns, agencies, co-production and socio-technological strategies in research and practice. In the Proceedings of the Architecture and Resilience on the Human Scale Conference, 10th-12th September 2015, Sheffield, UK, 11-21.

2012 Trogal, K. Feminist classrooms as affective, collective spaces. In De Vos, E., De Walsche, J., Michels, M., Verbruggen, S., 2012. Theory by design: Architectural research made explicit in the design teaching studio (Antwerp, Belgium, Artesis University College of Antwerp, 29th-31st October 2012), 481- 486.

2009 Kim Trogal, K. and Vardy, S. ‘Resistance and activist research: A workshop with Brian Holmes and Anne Querrien’.  Field 3(1)(2009), 49-57.

2007 Trogal, K.  Open kitchen or cookery architecture. In Petrescu, D., ed. Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space. London: Routledge, 169-188.

2007 Trogal, K. and Care, L. ‘A quick conversation about the theory and practice of control, creativity and authorship in architecture’. Field 1(1), 136-145.