Talks and Events
-
World Congress of Architects Barcelona. UIA 2026. 'Delight and Choreography: Becoming Attuned" with Victoria McKenzie and Natalia Figueredo
01/07/2026 15:25-16:00 PM
Barcelona, Spain
Sound, territory, and collective atmosphere become shared entry points to rethink spatial practice beyond the object. Research on Jamaican and Amazonian environments is presented through a performative sonic format that treats listening as a way of reading landscape, cultural memory, and environmental transformation, while projects such as Discoteca de Playa explore how music, temporary infrastructures, and social rituals generate spatial situations in their own right.
Across these approaches, architecture operates less through form-making than through attunement: sensing rhythms, climates, and collective practices to understand how space is continuously produced, inhabited, and reinterpreted.
-
Screening of ‘Movement Song (2025)’ with Q&A at Filmhuis Cavia
30/06/2025 20:30-22:30 PM
Filmhuis Cava, Amsterdam, NL
Movement Song makes its second premiere at one of Amsterdam’s oldest cinema’s ‘Filmhuis Cavia’ founded in 1983 out of the squatters movement. The screening begins at 8:30pm followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and actor Mayis Rukel and Victoria McKenzie.
-
Screening of ‘Movement Song (2025)’ at Studio K’s ‘Studio/ Queer’ with Q&A
29/06/2025 14:00-16:00 PM
Studio K, Amsterdam, NL
Movement Song makes its premiere at Studio K’s Summer of Studio Queer Festival. The screening begins at 2pm followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and actor Mayis Rukel and Victoria McKenzie.
-
Symposium ‘Water Imaginaries’ moderated by Victoria McKenzie
27/06/2025
Stroom Den Haag, NL
Water imaginaries is organized in tandem with the exhibition Beloved Waters at Stroom and can be visited during the event. Water imaginaries is organized by Stroom in collaboration with partners Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE), Royal Academy of Art (KABK), and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS).
-
Planetary Poetics: Artist Talk Victoria McKenzie
11/06/2025Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, NL
Join Victoria McKenzie for an artist talk that traverses ‘praxis’ to contemplate what it truly means to act in the midst of climate change.
-
In(di)visible Infrastructures: Bridging Overseen Worlds, Lecture Series Symposium
25/11/2024
RADIUS, Delft, NL
Co-curated and co-created by Delfina Fantini Van Ditmar and Victoria McKenzie, this series brings together academics, artists and ecological practitioners to re-think and re-build what a notion of Infrastructures could be.
-
WORLDING ECOLOGIES Symposium
24/10/2024
RADIUS, Delft, NL
The symposium ‘Worlding Ecologies at RADIUS, Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft, on October 19th and 20th of 2024, serves as the official public launch of the publication Worlding Ecologies. Art, Science and Activism Towards Climate Justice (Valiz, 2024), The symposium will consist of three panels of three authors from the publication each.
-
‘Radical (In)Visibility’ minus1radio with Victoria McKenzie
12/09/2024
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
Radical (In)Visibility on the minus1 radio is a live discussion between Thomas Tawanda and Victoria McKenzie on technology, methodology, and the social implications of making research and creative labour public in the context of the art world.
-
Bario Radio, Siblings of the Soil: Victoria McKenzie and Chautuileo Tranamil
08/03/2024
Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Siblings of the Soil is a live podcast conversation on International Woman’s day between decolonial ecofeminist Victoria McKenzie and Indigenous activist Chautuileo Tranamil. The discussion looks at the intersections of activism and art as well as what it means to fight for our futures. This event is an opportunity to educate, grow, and take accountability for the role the West has on people in the global South.
-
TEDx Talk: “The Word for Sustainability is Decolonisation” Victoria McKenzie
18/11/2023
Wageningen University, NL
Climate change was never just about Weather. We are living in an entangled world in which everything is connected and the Earth thrives off of living relationships. What if architecture were to design for the living relationships of the Earth, communities, history, our embodiment and a different type of future grounded in the methods of the indigenous past?
-
Studium Generale - Bioremediation: Regenerative remedies for Toxic Realities
25/05/2023 17.00-20.30
KABK, The Hague, NL
Victoria McKenzie and Leila Darwish in conversation on what it means to transform toxic realities through technologies of bioremediation.
-
Talk/ Panel: Regenerative Design: What is the new paradigm based on co-creation and activistic coalitions
03/20/2023 20:00
Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, NL
In this panel held by Pakhuis de Zwijger, we discuss and contemplate the question of: “What promising alternative systems and regenerative practices are already emerging around the world?”
-
Studium Generale: “THE SEEDS OF VANDANA SHIVA” with Vandana Shiva, Victoria McKenzie and Jasper Griepink
12/01/2022 18.00
KABK, The Hague, NLIn this talk, the prolific Earth activist Vandana Shiva discusses soil politics, neoliberalism, toxic corporations and what it means to fight for the rights of the Earth. Moderated by Victoria McKenzie and Jasper Griepink.
https://www.kabk.nl/agenda/studium-generale-the-seeds-of-vandana-shiva
-
Talk/ lecture: “Raise your voice” symposium at DUTCH DESIGN WEEK
27/10/2022
Eindhoven, NL
A thoughtful morning session on situated design and socially engaged art, critically examining their role in political, societal and environmental challenges, with talks from Pablo Calderon Salazar, Victoria Mckenzie and Miliaku Nwabueze.
https://www.baltanlaboratories.org/library/ryv-ddw-symposium
-
Lecture-performance at Zone2Source x School of Multispecies Knowledge
05/30/2022
Amstelpark, Amsterdam, NL
The School explores new learning environments to rethink our relationship with other organisms and their impact on the way we live together. The School for MultiSpecies Knowledges responds to the increasing need for post-disciplinary and land-based pedagogical strategies that bridge theory and practice, enable learning communities and non-methodological tactics, and build on different levels of audience engagement.
https://zone2source.net/en/school-of-multispecies-knowledges-2/