Biography
Catherine Koekoek is a PhD researcher at Erasmus School of Philosophy. Alongside finishing her PhD, she is also a curator for the 2024 International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam around the theme "Nature of Hope." She holds degrees in architecture (MSc, cum laude, Delft) and philosophy (MA, cum laude, Leiden). Her dissertation examines how democratic infrastructures – from community centers to the Rotterdams Wijktheater, with which she collaborates – enable democratic coexistence in the face of both post-truth polarisation and neoliberal depoliticisation. Together with Veerle Alkemade, she produces the feminist architecture podcast Respons.
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Work
- Suzanne van de Beek & Catherine Koekoek (2024) - Between Refusal and Refuge: Queer Feminist Bookstore Savannah Bay - Feminist Encounters, 8 (2), 1-13 - doi: 10.20897/femenc/14950
- Catherine Koekoek, Hani Salih, Keller Easterling, Akil Scafe-Smith & Federica Zambeletti (2024) - Hope Floats: Process over Product at IABR: KoozArch interviews Nature of Hope Curators and Participants - [link]
- Catherine Koekoek (2024) - Boundless Contestation: Post-truth, Agonism, and Democracy - [link]
- Catherine Koekoek (2024) - Return to the City to Claim It: Temporalities and Locations of Feminist Refusal - Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Politicas, 27 (1), 23-29 - doi: 10.5209/rpub.90727
- Jasmina Ibrahimovic & Catherine Koekoek (2024) - Transformative arts: Community theatre as democratic infrastructure - [link]
- Catherine Koekoek (2023) - Feminisme en de vreugde van verzet: Klankkast Stille Geluiden Aflevering #2 - [link]
- Catherine Koekoek & Veerle Alkemade (2023) - Architecten, zet die ego’s opzij en verenigt u - [link]
- Catherine Koekoek & Emily Zakin (2023) - Feminist takes on post-truth - Philosophy and Social Criticism, 49 (2), 125-138 - doi: 10.1177/01914537231152779 - [link]
- Catherine Koekoek (2023) - Ondenkbaar maakt onzichtbaar (herpublicatie van BNI ode) - Wijsgerig Perspectief, 63 (1), 47
- Catherine Koekoek (2022) - Ondenkbaar maakt onzichtbaar: Hoe Sara Ahmed helpt seksueel wangedrag te begrijpen - [link]
- Catherine Koekoek (2024) - Kunnen wij het maken? In gesprek over een feministische architectuurpraktijk (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Popular - Catherine Koekoek (2024) - Between Refusal and Refuge. A Feminist, Relational Reconceptualization of Democratic Theory and Emergent Change (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Catherine Koekoek, Setareh Noorani, Maren Wehrle, Tijn van de Wijdeven, Najiba Iqbal & Britt van Leeuwen (2024) - Changing Institutions with Sara Ahmed (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional - Catherine Koekoek (2024) - Response to Bonnie Honig (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Catherine Koekoek (2024) - Democratic Infrastructures for Imagination (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Alina Paias & Catherine Koekoek (2023) - Sympoietic conditions for change (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Catherine Koekoek (2023) - Infrastructures for Democratic Imagination (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Catherine Koekoek (2023) - Ontmoetingsplekken doen ertoe (Invited speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Popular - Catherine Koekoek (2023) - Democratic Openness, Neoliberal Closures: A History of Democratic Infrastructures in Rotterdam (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Catherine Koekoek (2023) - Refusing Research in Rotterdam (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
- CR (Catherine) Koekoek (2021) - TeachEUR Best Teaching Activity
Critique
- Year Level
- Bachelor 2, Bachelor 2, Bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FW-WB3930
