Lisa Maillard

Lisa Maillard (she/her) is an architect and researcher. She studied architecture at ETH Zürich and research architecture at Goldsmiths (London, and has worked in participatory urban planning processes in Zürich. Her work covers questions related to bodies, gender, sexualities, law, space, and their intersections, with a particular focus on reproductive justice and the spatialities of street-based sex work. She is the creator of Abort Game, a board game providing insight into the myriad factors determining if and how an individual can obtain a legal abortion from within different states of the contiguous U.S. Her current research interrogates the way in which nation-states conceptualize and control reproduction in the context of the current rise of right-wing populism across Europe and the United States, and what role architecture and spatial practices play in this biopolitical regime. Lisa is also a founding member of Kollektiv Erika, an informal, non-commercial gastronomy collective.