Veranstaltung

18. September 2026, 09:00 bis 21:00

Public Spaces, Urban Cultures and Hope Symposium

Symposium

It is our pleasure to invite you to the international "Public Spaces, Urban Cultures and Hope Symposium", which will take place at TU Wien on September 18, 2026!

In the realms of planning, urban design and architecture, the development and envisioning of cultural organizations has traditionally been concerned with grand works of opera houses and theatre buildings. Since the 1970s, however, the focus has shifted towards the inclusion of informal and more circular cultural agencies, many of them linked to relational conceptions of space, or to the further development of immersive and acoustic technologies. Public space researchers have embraced socio-cultural aspects of urban life to cultivate hope, yet have only randomly engaged with the power of urban music subcultures and scenes, and the study thereof, to contribute to neighborhood solidarity, collective work practices when building music spaces, or to the deep democratic aspects of a diversity of music cultures, and the intermezzos and crossovers between them, in the city.

Against this backdrop, the Public Spaces, Urban Cultures and Hope Symposium of the Thematic Group for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP TG PSUC) takes place at Technische Universität Wien(TU Wien) on the 18 September 2026, in combination with the third international conference of the Urban Music Studies Scholars’ Network Groove the City – Move the Streets, taking place 17+19 September 2026 at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in combination with

Both combined events seek to deepen this research field by examining the manifold mobilities that shape and are shaped by sound in urban contexts. This includes a critical engagement with the concept and materiality of “the street” as a multifaceted and symbolic terrain where social, cultural, and political processes unfold.

Kalendereintrag
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Getreidemarkt, TUtheSky
1060 Vienna
Getreidemarkt 9
Veranstalter
Organizer: TU Wien. Supporters: mdw, AESOP TG PSUC, Urban music studies scholars' network
Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (E280-09)
office@urban.tuwien.ac.at
Info-Link
https://skuor.tuwien.ac.at/events-urban-cultures-public-spaces-hope/
Öffentlich
Ja
Kostenpflichtig
Ja
Anmeldung erforderlich
Ja

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