Mateja Kurir (Slovenia), philosopher and critic, earned her PhD from the University of Ljubljana. She is the author of The Architecture of Modernity and das Unheimliche: Heidegger, Freud and Le Corbusier (forthcoming in English 2027, in Slovenian 2018) and editor of On Power in Architecture (2025) and co-editor of Garden And Metaphor (2024) andForest Encounters (2025). She has received two Plečnik Medals for her contributions to architectural theory and criticism. She has held research positions at KU Leuven and the University of Rijeka. Currently, she is a researcher at the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia and an assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana.
Mateja Kurir talks to Michael Marder, a philosopher of plant life, about the place of plants in Western thought, vegetal time, Chernobyl, waste and fire, and what landscape architects might learn from treating the ground as active and the landscape as a collaborator.
The forest has recently become a site of renewed interest — not only in philosophy and the humanities, but also in art and aesthetic theory. Many reasons lie behind this return, all closely tied to the tensions of our present moment. We speak with philosopher and co-editor of Forest Encounters, Mateja Kurir.
Dušan Ogrin (1929-2019) was the pioneer of Slovenian landscape architecture. In 1972, he founded the Landscape Architecture programme at the University of Ljubljana. His seminal work The World Heritage of Gardens was published in 1993, so it was not too far-fetched to dedicate a book in his memory to the topic of gardens. The editors […]
FOREST ENCOUNTERS: short stories, flash fiction, poetry, essays The European cooperation project FOREST ENCOUNTERS is looking for representations of different encounters with the forest from both human and non-human perspectives. The FOREST ENCOUNTERS project explores and proposes diverse imaginaries, concepts, and practices around the following questions: What and how can we learn with and through […]
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