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Symposium: Dialectics Between Urban Imaginaries And Urban Materialities

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (SKuOR) at TU Vienna and the City of Vienna Visiting Professor Prof. D.Phil. Maria Kaika (University of Manchester) host a public symposium aimed at researchers and practitioners in the fi eld of urban theory, urban intervention, social/ spatial practices, political ecology, urban cultures and public space.

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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

More information: <link http: skuor.tuwien.ac.at>

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