Detail from Grant Tigner’s painting The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, published in The St. Lawrence Seaway: The Realization of a Mighty Dream, 1954
Lev Bratishenko
Online Lecture in the context of the course Herbarium of Greenwashing. On Pseudosustainability in Spatial Practice, convened by Ena Kukić
11 November 2025, 17.00
IZK Research Space, Kronesgasse 5/III, 8010 Graz
We typically think of greenwashing as an active process, something done with a guilty conscience. But what if it’s second nature, almost an unconscious habit, because it’s part of your national identity? The talk will survey Canadian history through the lens of environmental disasters: some that happened, some that almost happened, and others that are still happening.
Lev Bratishenko is Twister of Meaning at The Cosmic House in London. As inaugural Curator Public at the Canadian Centre for Architecture from 2016-2023, he introduced new formats like the “counter-tour” and the “institutional performance festival.” Contributing to CCA projects since 2007, he was editor of It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Canadian Environment (CCA / JAPSAM, 2016) and curator of The object is not online (2010). His writing on architecture, music, and technology has appeared in publications including AA Files, Abitare, Apollo, The Architectural Review, Arkitektur, Architect’s Newspaper, Canadian Architect, Cabinet, Disegno, Fazer, Gizmodo, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Icon, Literary Review of Canada, Maclean’s, Manifest, Mark, The Montreal Gazette, Tribune, Triple Canopy, Opera Canada, Opera News, and Uncube.
