Simona Castricum: Transing Immediate Futures – Architecture and Music as Auto-Speculation

‍Lecture followed by a conversation with Teo Ala-Ruona and Kaisa Karvinen‍

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Saturday, July 26th, 2025 | 17:00–19:00

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The Museum of Impossible Forms warmly welcomes architecture worker, musician, and broadcaster Simona Castricum, who will lecture on auto-speculation as a tool for trans spatial production across architecture and music. Simona frames transing as the imagination of worlds within impossible thresholds of contest—for urgent, necessary futures. Drawing on transfeminist methodologies, her practice challenges normative structures by rendering emotional infrastructures and living archives of place, memory, and affect—across both virtual and tactile space. Here, architecture becomes not just a matter of bodies and buildings, but of emotion in motion: of awakenings, of mapping trans urban morphologies in a world that too often denies queer and trans relationships, and the conditions for justice they require.

The lecture will be followed by a conversation featuring performance artist Teo Ala-Ruona and architect-curator Kaisa Karvinen.

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Simona Castricum is a musician, architecture worker, and broadcaster based on Wurundjeri country, in Narrm (Melbourne, Australia). Her work reimagines the relationships between bodies, space, and politics—exploring gender, sexuality, and urbanism through auto-speculation, and foregrounding queering and transing as methods of spatial production. She confronts cisnormative paradigms in architecture and urbanism, advocating for anti-colonial and transformative approaches to public, civic, and institutional space. Through both music and design, she reveals how tactile and virtual urban conditions shape and are shaped by trans and queer lives.

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