Els Silvrants-Barclay is a curator, researcher and activist. As senior researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Affective Architectures in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zürich she initiated the Dept. of the Ongoing, engaging with uses, bodies and subjectivities often overlooked by mainstream architectural production. She is associate researcher at the Brussels Centre of Urban Studies and coordinator of Permanent, a practice-based research project that draws upon anti-speculative models from the commons- and cooperative economy to develop an infrastructure for a multitude of uses and users to ‘be in it together without needing to be the same’. As a curator, she often works with artists on commissions in public space, and she has developed a training on this for the Flemish Platform Kunst in Opdracht (Flemish Platform for Art Commissions). Her practice is centred on the politics of spatial production, looking at space as affective, as choreography of bodies, as reflective and reproductive of worldviews, and assembles around the question on how to think and produce space otherwise.