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		<title>Home</title>
				
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		<title>About</title>
				
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	about


	

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Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk is an architectural researcher, designer and performer from Johannesburg, South Africa.  Through her multidisciplinary approach, Khensani mobilzes visual, written and sonic expressions to remember&#38;nbsp; histories untold and imagine possibilities yet to unfold. Her practice positions architecture as a spatial storyteller.

She is the founder of Matri-Archi(tecture), an association that hosts a network of African and diasporic spatial practitioners dedicated to learning about histories, realities and imaginaries through spatial expression. Matri-Archi offers a site for artistic collaboration through design, art and architectural research projects. 

She is a doctoral fellow at the  Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) ETH Zürich, focusing on long-standing research concerned with how architecture is implicated in our understandings of safe space. Her PhD focuses on the forms of kinship that Black foreign women have constructed in Zürich since the 1980s.&#38;nbsp;
She was a mentor in the Building Beyond programme from 2021–2025, where she offered guidance to 12 spatial practioners and artists from across the African continent for per year.&#38;nbsp;
She is also the host and producer of the podcast of STOKVEL and &#38;nbsp;KONTEXT. 

She previously taught at the chair of Affective Architectures at the ETH Zürich, where she co-coordinated the Department of the Ongoing platform. She has also taught in Johannesburg and practiced in London, amongst engaging in educational contexts&#38;nbsp; at various instititions across the world, including South Africa, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and central Europe. 
She has exhibited work in various contexts including the Chicago Architecture Biennial (us), Vitra Design Museum (de), Keyes Art Mile (sa), Pinakothek der Moderne (de), the Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation (sa), to name a few.

She received a Bachelors in Architecture and a Bachelors of City Planning (Hons) from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) as well as an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design (RIBA II) from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). 

  On the odd occasion she appears as ‘Khe’ , where she explores emotive presences embedded in spatial conditions through spoken word projects.  

She is fluent in English; and speaks Xitsonga and German (CEFR B2).for more information about ongoing work or to send consulting requests, project proposals and comission offers:&#38;nbsp; work@kjdk.ch&#38;nbsp;
	



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		<title>Publications, talks + teaching</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2021 17:06:48 +0000</pubDate>

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	Selected publications, talks + teaching
	



	
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	PublicationsJurczok-de Klerk, Khensani. “African upon Departure, Black upon Arrival – Culture as Geography” in: ARCH+ 262 African Spatial Thinking &#124; Denkraum Afrika:&#38;nbsp;December 2025.&#38;nbsp;
Jurczok-de Klerk, Khensani. "Remembering Through Spatial Storytelling”. E-flux Architecture: May 2025. 

Jurczok-de Klerk, Khensani. “Emanzipation! An Agent of Feminist Political Discourse in Switzerland 1975–1996” in: ed Critchley, Matthew et al. “Political Histories”. Zurich: gta Verlag, 2025. Print. p 52-62

Batchati, Abdé; de Jong, Afaina; Jurczok-de Klerk, Khensani; Mugo, Aisha; Waco, Margarida “Editorial”. Homeplace — A Love Letter. Architekturmuseum der TUM: December 2023. p3Jurczok-de Klerk, Khensani "Provocations on Informality”. L'architecture D'aujourd'hui 455: Africa. Archipress Editions: June-July 2023. p68-71Jurczok-de Klerk, Khensani, et al. "Scarcity as a Situation of Resilient Abundance” by Matri-Archi(tecture). Fieldnotes on Scarcity ed. Tosin Oshinowo and Julie Cirelli. Park Books. 2023

de Klerk, Khensani “A Place of Safety”. The Architectural Review: Where do we go from here?, November 2021, pp.64-68
de Klerk, Khensani “Resisting the controlling image”. The Architectural Review: Collage + Old into New, July 2021, pp.74-79 de Klerk, Khensani “An ethos of interdependency”. The Architectural Review: Care + W Awards, Mar 2021, pp. 42-45 
de Klerk, Khensani, et al. “A Disruptive (De)Growth Repository of Spatial Practices across Sub-Saharan Africa.” Scroope 29: Manifesto, no. 29, 16 Dec. 2020, pp. 78–85.
de Klerk, Khensani “We Are Stretched from Margin to Centre”. The Architectural Review: Self Built Housing + AR House, Dec 2020, pp. 26-31
de Klerk, Khensani. “The Intersectionality of Spatial Practice”. Atlantis Magazine for Urbanism &#38;amp; Landscape Architecture by Polis TU Delft, vol1, Oct 2017, pp. 33-34Talks + workshops2025 &#124; what is safe space? workshop for BILLBOARD no.7 by Créatrices.&#38;nbsp;Zollhaus, Zürich, Switzerland.

2024 &#124; CITATION POLITICS symposium. on poetics – a practice of citation // on citation – a practice of poetics.  RIOT, EPFL , Lausanne, Switzerland.2024 &#124;&#38;nbsp; Remembering through spatial storytelling.&#38;nbsp;Drawing Otherwise symposium&#38;nbsp;hosted by Bernadette Krejs and Elke Krasny.  Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.

2023 &#124; Futuress Tutorial. Between Imaginary and Image: Architecture as Storyteller.  K-Haus, Basel, Switzerland.2023 &#124; Inclusion and diversity in architectural academia and practice. A conversation talk with Dr. Torsten Lange and Khensani Jurczok-de 
Klerk.&#38;nbsp; Intersectional space is architectural practice and academia. USI Mendrisio, Switzerland.
2023 &#124; Jour Fixe-Vortragsreihe 2022/23 „Practices Of Care“ – Roundtable #3 Care. Is there any pleasure in learning? turning to study to care.
 ABK Stuttgart, Germany.

2023 &#124; Urban Design Otherwise: Towards anticolonial design: urgency, methodology and diffractions. UCL Development Planning Unit, London UK (online). Disruptive by Default: Design in Everyday Spatial Practices.
2022 &#124; Loudreaders Session 31 hosted by Loudreader Trade School by WAI Think Tank [watch here]2022 &#124; her(e) otherwise invited by saay/yaas walk and public talk at arc en rêve centre d'architecture, Bordeaux, France [watch here]2021 &#124; Dept. of the Ongoing. Curriculum Workshop at Technische Universität München&#38;nbsp;[online] organised by Prof Meike Schalk and Josiane Schmidt.
2021 &#124; Building Beyond Type: Summer School on Collective Strategies for Just Cities hosted by Permanent Brussels [watch here] We Are the City: Towards a Fluid Spatial Lexicon.
2021 &#124;&#38;nbsp;Space of Other Talk in Who is We? Multiplicity of Other Netherlands pavilion by Afaina de Jong, conversation, Venice Bienniale, 
Italy [online]
2021 &#124;&#38;nbsp;Critical Perspectives on Spatial Practice panel [with Dr. Ghazal Jafari and Ana María Durán Calisto] at LABash Conference, Cornell University, US [watch here]
2021 &#124;&#38;nbsp;Collectivising! presentation in Blueprint for Decolonisation symposium [hosted by the Architecture Foundation and Asian 
Architects
Association] London, UK [watch here]
2020 &#124;&#38;nbsp;100 Day Studio: Dismantling the Master’s House: Bringing Intersectionality to an Architecture School, The Architecture Foundation London [watch here]
Teaching 
2024 &#124; Supervision of &#38;nbsp;Architecture Master’s student Lily Blanchard - ETH Zürich, Switzerland.&#38;nbsp;
2024 &#124; Supervision of &#38;nbsp;Industrial Design Master’s student Eva Böhlen - HKB Bern, Switzerland.&#38;nbsp;2023 &#124; Interdisciplinary approaches to gender and diversity. Co-guest lecture teaching with Dr. Torsten Lange. Making module. Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society. Lugano, Switzerland.2023 &#124; MA Spatial Strategies guest lecture teaching and workshop. Disruptive walking margin to centre, Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.&#38;nbsp;Berlin, Germany.
2022 &#124;&#38;nbsp;Wor(l)ds within the Undercommons, co-formulation and teaching of seminar at Chair of Affective Architectures, ETH Zürich.&#38;nbsp;
2021 &#124; ETH Zürich, the Chair of Affective Architectures, You’re Not My Type hosted by the Department of the Ongoing, Regensdorf,Zürich. We Are the City: Towards a Fluid Spatial Lexicon.
2021–2023 &#124; Chair of Affective Architectures, researcher and educator, ETH Zürich. 
2021 &#124; University of Nottingham, Architecture Department Unit 2 Design and Build Studio. Nottingham, United Kingdom. Spatial 
Storytelling: Conduit + Vessel.2021 &#124; University of Cape Town, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics BAS Design Studio 1 hosted by Dr. Huda Tayob [online]. Spatial Storytelling: Conduit + Vessel.2021 &#124; University of Cape Town, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics BAS Cultural Landscapes #3 hosted by Prof. Tomà&#38;nbsp; 
Berlanda [online] Spatial Storytelling: Conduit + Vessel.for collaborations, invitations and more information, email: khensanideklerk.work@gmail.com 
 





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		<title>Matri-Archi(tecture)</title>
				
		<link>https://kjdk.ch/Matri-Archi-tecture</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:01:29 +0000</pubDate>

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2017 - ongoingSouth Africa + Switzerland 
Association 
Founded by Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk
︎ matri-archi.ch

Matri-Archi(tecture)© is an association that hosts a network of African and diasporic spatial practitioners dedicated to learning about our histories, realities and imaginaries through spatial expression. Matri-Archi offers a site for artistic collaboration through design, art and architectural research projects.




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		<title>Voicing Spaces</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:40:56 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Voicing Spaces: Archival Openings[re, de] &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;
2025–2026Developed during Villa Serpentara Residency, awarded by the Akademie der Künste Berlin together with the Deutsche Akademie Rome (2025)
Exhibited at the Akademie der Künste Berlin in the group show Voyager and Vessel (2026)&#38;nbsp;
Collage and film series
Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk with the inputs of Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli, Pearl Bäni,&#38;nbsp;Claudine Ntawurishira-Guinands, Fatima Rübi-Ibrahim and Dinahlee Obey-Siering.

Voicing Spaces: Archival Openings brings together six insights from the 1980sto early 2000s, tracing rooms, streets, kitchens and meeting places that held, propelled,and sometimes complicated the lives of Black women in Zurich. Centred on those whointersected with the Treffpunkt Schwarzer Frauen (1993–2010), the exhibition uses collageto subvert negative images embedded in “stable” archives, reclaiming presence within ashared, collective memory. Each collage is a vignette rather than a totalising account — anarchival opening shaped by conversations between the artist and the women, showing howspaces which have little to no visual record, can be voiced. Here, the archive is approachedas conversational, oral, fluid and layered — giving spatial form to a history that left almostno architectural or formal archival trace, yet endures in voices, textures and the mappedintimacies of the city. 


    

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		<title>(PhD) Safe space</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:29:18 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Safe Space: worlding archives of the&#38;nbsp;Treffpunkt Schwarzer Frauen in Zürich (1980s-2010)

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2023–ongoingInsitut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (gta), ETH Zürich Switzerland
PhD researchKhensani Jurczok-de Klerk, supervised by Prof. Philip Ursprung &#38;amp; Prof. Patricia Purtschert
︎ gta ETH Zürich

From the 1970s, migration from African countries began to notably increase in Switzerland. Whilst the social, economic, physical and political ramifications of the white Swiss nuclear family ideal have been dire for women, “Third World Women" have persisted to create liveable geographies for themselves, as evidenced by projects such as the Treffpunkt Schwarzer Frauen in Zurich (1990–2010). The research reclaims the contested term “Third World Woman”, to describe racialised Black foreign women, as a means of distinguishing intersectionalities of risk, recognising shared and specific struggles experienced by Black women.&#38;nbsp;What forms of kinship have Black “Third World Women” constructed to make liveable geographies for themselves in the wake of racial-sexual violences in Zürich since the 1970s until today? What are the imprints of these forms of kinship? What lessons might we learn from these forms of kinship that liberate and emancipate women from conditions of hostility and violence, reimagining safe space as affirming and empowering? The methodological approach hopes to offer one way of remembering forms of kinship, through intertwined sonic and visual imprints. &#38;nbsp;Since 2010, the Treffpunkt Schwarzer Frauen in Zürich no longer exists and no perceivable architectural traces can be found where it stood. The archive of it’s life sits in the mouths of those who frequented it, lingers in personal photo albums, and appears scarcely in publicly accessible texts. A key ambition of this PhD is to excavate and assemble the oral histories that hold this space, and in so doing, illuminate and visually illustrate the historical significance and impact of the project.




The work is a homage to and an affirmation of the histories and existence of Black foreign women who have have affected, affect and will continue to affect space in Zürich. &#38;nbsp;


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		<title>Homeplace–A Love Letter</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:02:01 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Homeplace–A Love Letter[re, de] &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;
2023–2024Architekturmuseum der TUM, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Germany
ArtworkArtists: Matri-Archi(tecture) – Abdé Batchati, Afaina de Jong, Aisha Mugo, Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk, Margarida Waco
︎ more on Homeplace – A Love Letter

‘Homeplace. A Love Letter’ re-imagines and re-configures the Rotunda as a site for critical reflections on the spatiality of dwelling, sharing with-and-inviting visitors to contemplate on possible forms and commonalities a home might invoke and hold. Through an assemblage of beaded curtains, sound, and storytelling deftly navigating the waters of history, memory, and identity, the installation centers Afrodiasporic experiences to carve out imaginations of home otherwise by weaving together personal and interpersonal intricacies of belonging.






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		<title>Spatial Storytelling: Conduit + Vessel</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2022 14:19:01 +0000</pubDate>

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	Spatial Storytelling: Conduit + Vessel
	[re, pe] &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;

2022Online
Performance installation
by Khensani de Klerk in response to an invitation by host Disembodied Territories&#38;nbsp;
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︎ see full digital installation here
Employing collage as a means of making visible often intangible challenges, ideas and fantasies around safety; the semi-corporeal moving object situates itself as both conduit and vessel. As a fabric of narratives interwoven and viewed collectively in the public realm, it acts as a conduit for storytellers to share their experiences and understandings of the city. As an entangled visualisation of stories navigating through the urban spaces in the form of a garment, it acts as a vessel holding the fluidity of everyday lives near and far, speaking to the temporality of safety as a gregarious rather than solely reclusive state of how Black women inhabit the built environment.

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		<title>Walking — margin to centre</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Walking (disrupting, blurring, glitching) -
margin to centre[re] &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;
2022Various citiesWalk&#38;nbsp;


 










Turin, Italy &#124; October 2022
Johannesburg, South Africa &#124; coming soonZürich, Switzerland &#124; coming soon

Walking, disrupting, blurring, glitching — margin to centre 
uses walking as a mode of engagement for responding to a central question that through geographic design Black women have been implicated in: what is safe space? How do we come to understanding safe space in spatial terms? How do we enact a sense of safe space in cities?


Walking, disrupting, blurring, glitching — margin to centre 
extends on existing scholarship built and being built by Black feminist scholars; from bell hooks’ exploration of margin and centre, to Katherine McKittrick’s offering on the cartographies of Black women, to Legacy Russel’s exploration of the glitch as a mode of affecting change, to the endless uncited bodies of Black women seeking to find a sense of safety in cities by being in them, pausing in them, dwelling in them, walking in them, risking their bodies in them.


Walking, disrupting, blurring, glitching — margin to centre 
is a method for critically engaging with the deficiencies and possibilities of safe space. How might our cities tend to us? How might we tend to them? As a mode of engagement in motion, the process of continuously walking through the city actively tends to the it, recognising its constantly shifting characteristics.


Walking, disrupting, blurring, glitching — margin to centre 
lends from psychogeographic methods, recognising the mental and psychological aspects entangled in our experiences of the city on the ground, situating and focusing on our reactions to our surroundings. As we walk, we carve lines into our environments, we are affecting our environments and being affected by our environments— sensing, smelling, hearing, tasting, touching. We are able to pick up on hints, we are able to listen to the city, by spending time with and in it.


Walking, disrupting, blurring, glitching — margin to centre 
critically exposes the figure of the Flaneur as a false universal ideal way of engaging with the city, as the figure of the Flaneur is premised on exclusive abilities — namely the freedom to move, freedom to choose, freedom to pause, freedom to ponder — essentially the freedom to explore the city.


Walking, disrupting, blurring, glitching— margin to centre 
recognises that the Flaneur is not the goal nor the ideal, but rather a point of departure to think about engaging in a mode of resistance to social issues that are embedded in our cities. When we walk as Black women in many cities, we not only resist structures that have not considered non-dominant ways of being but we positively glitch the city, using walking as a mechanism for revealing that which often goes overlooked, that which is possible. 


Walking, disrupting, blurring, glitching — margin to centre 
is a series of walks, displayed through this platform reflecting an ongoing practice and ritual of walking in different cities from margin to centre, a spatial score designed and walk conducted by Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk. Through walking, how can we consciously enact and try to understand how cities foster choice, pause and ponder? Characteristics of safe space that we could embrace and affect through design in our cities as spatial practitioners.




SCORESearch for the border of the city, search for the centre, online. Top-down. 
Choose a location at the city border, the margin. 
Record the day, time, conditions around you. Take a photograph. 
Walk in an unorganised line but concentrated direction to the city centre. 
When conditions seem to noticeably and considerably change, take a photograph. 
Do not stop walking, record your observations through sound notes.
Once you feel you have arrived at the centre, record the time and conditions around you.
When possible, repeat this exercise from different marginal points, at different times, in different conditions.


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		<title>Beyonding Urbanity</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2022 14:17:00 +0000</pubDate>

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	Beyonding Urbanity
	[re] &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;
2020Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsSymposium
Conceptual development by Khensani de Klerk
Curated by Ola Hassanain, supported by The Prince Claus Fund &#38;amp; Creative Industries Fund NL&#38;nbsp;

︎ full mentorship programme description here
African cities are the fastest urbanising spaces in the world. They host the youngest populations and are sites of new financial channels, ecologies, and spaces. We see these conditions as forms of futurity, where further reinscriptions of Africa as a global capital take place. By extension, reconstitutions of Urbanity. However, in this context a young population of Africans embodies the future as present.

Beyonding Urbanity is a two-part symposium bringing together different perspectives, practices, and forms of expression of artists, designers, architects, and researchers from Egypt, Rwanda, Nigeria, Algeria, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, and the African diasporas. Through conversation we create a constellation of remembrances, entanglements, concerns, pauses, prompts and offerings of imagination that are centered in cultivating a symbiotic relation to different forms of expression that reconstitute urbanity. In two panels, the participants reflect on the human and non-human ecologies that are 'vital' to the process of erecting buildings, and to organising, designing, resisting, and growing our cities.

This symposium brings together the participants of the Building Beyond Mentorship Programme with the students from the Blacker Blackness Programme at the Sandberg Instituut. Building Beyond is an alternative educational programme that invites 12 creatives from the African continent to reimage the future of African cities through design and creative problem solving, guided&#38;nbsp;by three mentors, experts in architecture, art and design: artist, architect, critical space practitioner from Sudan, Ola Hassanain; architect, anthropologist and tech entrepreneur from Togo, Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou; architectural researcher, designer and performer from South Africa, Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk.This symposium collaboration was initiated by Rijksakademie resident Ola Hassanain, who together with Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk moderated the panels.




Symposium: Beyonding Urbanity from Rijksakademie on Vimeo.					
				
			
		
	





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