The symposium concludes SKuOR’s annual teaching and research theme “Urban culture, public space and resources: Aesthetics and materiality”, which has approached materialities and the changing aesthetics of space as a facet and the outcome of the social production of space.
Keynote speakers from the fi eld of urban theory and urban practice will contribute to a debate
on the dialectics between urban imaginaries and urban materialities.
Speakers:
Prof. Jeffrey Hou, Dr. Monika Grubbauer, Prof. Maria Kaika, Prof. Susanne Lorenz, Dr. Anja Steglich, Daniel Aschwanden, Prof. Erik Swyngedouw
Presenters (MSc):
Johanna Aigner, Franziska Lind, Julia Wildeis
Presenters (PhD):
Sigal Barnir, Anamarija Batista, Angelina Brotherhood, Katrin Klietsch, Theodosis Lefteris, Judith Lehner, Carina Lesky, Markus Maicher, Mathias Mitteregger, Ana-Maria Simionovici, Amila Sirbegovic, Johannes Suitner, Tihomir Viderman, Anna Wanka
Programme:
Monday, 21 January 2013 / 17.30 - 19.00
seminar room, Argentinierstraße 8
EVENING LECTURE: Prof. Jeffrey Hou, University of Washington, Making a city of publics
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
TU-Corner, Resselgasse 5
10.00 - 14.00 Opening Exhibition Iconic City, presentations & critics
15.00 - 17.00 Opening Symposium, Master students’ presentations & discussion
17.30 - 19.00 EVENING LECTURE: Dr. Monika Grubbauer, TU Darmstadt, Knowing urban spaces. Mobile knowledges, planning practises and public space
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
TU-Corner, Resselgasse 5
10.00 - 12.00 LECTURE: Prof. Maria Kaika, Space as radical imaginary: Autistic architecture and the shift from the lived city to the viewed city
12.00 - 14.00 PhD students’ presentations & discussion
15.00 - 16.00 PhD students’ presentations & discussion
16.00 - 17.00 Iconic City presentations
seminar room, Argentinierstraße 8
17.30 - 19.00 / EVENING LECTURE: Prof. Susanne Lorenz, UdK Berlin, Minding and mining. Site as story and soil.
Thursday, 24 January 2013
TU-Corner, Resselgasse 5
10.00 - 14.00 WORKSHOP: Dr. Anja Steglich / Daniel Aschwanden, Urban.Landscape.Choreography.
15.00 - 17.00 PhD students’ presentations & discussion
17.30 - 19.00 EVENING LECTURE: Prof. Maria Kaika, Challenges of PhD research: Developing skills and agendas
Friday, 25 January 2013
TU-Corner, Resselgasse 5
10.00 - 12.00 LECTURE: Prof. Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester, Post-democratic urban environments: The fantasmagoric imaginery of urban sustainability
12.00 - 14.00 PhD students’ presentations & discussion
15.00 - 16.00 LECTURE: Prof. Maria Kaika, Surviving the world of academic publishing
16.00 - 18.00 MSc & PhD workshops
18.00 Closing Exhibition
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