The Institute of Modern Art presents Off Grid 7: Building Stories with Janina Gosseye, a talk exploring how architecture and the built environment might be understood through new forms of writing, storytelling and creative practice.
Drawing on feminist thinkers and writers, Netherlands-based academic Janina Gosseye asks who gets access to knowledge and what becomes possible when we move beyond familiar ways of producing it.
Gosseye will share examples of experimental writing by feminist scholars, alongside work from her TU Delft seminar, Building Stories. In the seminar, first-year master’s students use creative methods to question established ideas and imagine alternative ways of understanding and shaping the world.
The event is supported by QUT’s Queensland Architecture Research Group and forms part of Off Grid, an architecture discussion series led by Andrew Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Queensland, and Andrew Leach, Professor of Architectural History at Queensland University of Technology.
Dates: Wednesday 21 October 2026, 6–7:30pm AEST
About the Speaker
Professor Janina Gosseye is Head of the Building Ideologies Group at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment in the Netherlands. Her research explores the intersections of twentieth-century architectural and urban history with social and political history.
Her books include Urban Design in the 20th Century: A History (2021, with Tom Avermaete) and Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research (2019, with Naomi Stead and Deborah van der Plaat).
