In-Between the (Property) Lines

A lecture by Marija Marić

VENUE: Dialogue, 35, Grand-Rue, Wiltz

The lecture examines language and storytelling as instruments in the commodification of land and housing. Organised around the reading of Real Estate Poetry – an experimental method of critical spatial writing centred on the existing language of speculative real estate markets – the lecture explores the way words naturalize, legitimize, and enable extractive practices of the property regimes.

Marija Marić is an architectural theorist based in Luxembourg. She works as a postdoctoral research associate at the Master in Architecture, University of Luxembourg. In 2020, she obtained a PhD from ETH Zurich. Her thesis examines the role of communication strategists in the design, mediation, and commodification of land and housing. She co-curated the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale and is the co-author with Francelle Cane of Staging the Moon. Resource Extraction Beyond Earth (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2023).​​

Image: A seventeenth-century land surveyor at work, from John Norden’s The Surveyor's Dialogue, 1617 (3rd edition).