Collective Care will present the framing polemic and the recent work of the Critical Broadcasting Lab founded in 2018 at MIT by Ana Miljački. Critical Broadcasting Lab is a space and a platform for the production of discursive interventions in architecture culture. Its key medium is the architectural exhibition broadened to include experiments with the entire contemporary ecology of broadcasting media. As its inaugural work, the Critical Broadcasting Lab launched two initiatives: the Agit Arch series of workshops, part of Pedagogical Experiments in the Department of Architecture celebrating its 150th anniversary, and “I Would Prefer Not To,” an ongoing, two-chapter oral history project.

Ana Miljački is a critic, curator and Associate Professor of Architecture at MIT, where she teaches history, theory and design. Miljački directs the Master of Architecture Program and the Architecture and Urbanism Group at MIT. She holds a Ph.D. (2007) in history and theory of architecture from Harvard University, an M.Arch. from Rice University and a B.A. from Bennington College. She was part of the three-member curatorial team, with Eva Franch i Gilabert and Ashley Schafer, of the US Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, where their project OfficeUS, critically examined the last century of US architects’ global contribution. Her Un/Fair Use, exhibition with Sarah Hirschman was on the view at the Center for Architecture in New York in the fall of 2015 and at Berkeley University’s Wuster Gallery in 2016. In 2018 Miljački launched the Critical Broadcasting Lab at MIT, whose work, “Sharing Trainers” is included in the São Paulo Architecture Biennale this fall. She is the author of The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle 1938-1968 (Routledge, 2017), and the editor of Terms of Appropriation: Modern and Architecture and Global Exchange with Amanda Reeser Lawrence (Routledge, 2018).