Public Life - Towards a politics of careBodies. Place. Matter.

PhD Symposium17th/18th April 2015

Vienna

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InfoPublic Life - Towards a politics of care

Bodies. Place. Matter.PhD Symposium, Vienna, 17th/18th April 2015

Organized by Prof. Elke Krasny, Ass. Prof. Sabine Knierbein & Prof. Rob Shields Venue: Studio Building, Multi-Purpose Space (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Lehargas-se 8, 1060 Vienna) and Mobiles Stadtlabor, (TU Wien, Resselpark/Karlsplatz,1040 Vienna)Admission: Free

A politics of care needs to be situated between bodies, place and matter. These come together both as elements of public and political life in cities and as as the subjects of research, knowledge production, and scientific inquiry. This conference aims to take up the complexities of public life and a new politics of care and concern situated in the commonalities, connectivities, and nuanced spatialities between bodies, place, and matter. Three panels “Bodies. Place. Matter” examine public life and the spatialisations of care and concern from the perspectives of urban, design and cultural disciplines. A common politics of care addresses the entanglement of infra-structures, resources, and affects, alignments, contradictions, and conflicts, labour, work, and pleasure, distribution and access, local site-specificity and a globalized production of space. If public space is indeed a critical part of public life or the embodied geographies of the public sphere, then we need to rethink its inherent potentials between everyday life practices and the production and critical reflection of scientific insights/knowing.As a joint project between the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Spa-ce (http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at), Vienna University of Technology, Austria - where all three organizers worked together within the frame of the City of Vienna Visiting Professorship Programme 2014 - the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria and Space and Culture, University of Alberta, Canada, a PhD Symposium will take place on 17th/18th April 2015. The conference seeks to bring together activism, contemporary art, research, critical spatial practice well as urban theory, design and planning to reflect and discuss issues of public life and a spatial politics of care.

Panel I: Bodies (Elke Krasny)Panel II: Place (Sabine Knierbein)Panel III: Matter (Rob Shields)

Public Life - Towards a politics of care Bodies. Place. Matter. PhD Symposium

17th/18th April 2015

VenuesStudio Building of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Multi-Purpose Space (“Mehrzweckhalle”), 2nd floor, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien

Mobiles Stadtlabor Karlsplatz, U-Bahn Station Resselpark, 1040 Vienna

see map below

The conference addresses students in the related fields of urban studies and planning in their late master or PhD phase.They are encouraged to present their current thesis topic to a wider audience. The programme may be subject to change.

Published by SKuOR http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at ISBN 978-3-902707-17-8

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Fri, 17th of April, 2015

10.00 Bodies – Introduction (Elke Krasny)

10.10 Keynote Speech (Kim Trogal)

10:50 Panel Presentations

Architecture for and by women (Maria Bostenaru Dan, University of Bucharest, Romania)

Art, Resistance and Protest: The Case of “Salvem El Cabanyal”, Valencia, Spain (Matilde Igual, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria)

Tale of a Rooftop (Nafiseh Mousavian, ENSA Paris La-Villette, France)

11:50 Discussant Feedback (Julia Wieger)

12:10 General Debate (Elke Krasny)

12:30 Lunch break

The panel is less about what bodies are, but rather about how bodies act, what bodies can do, what bodies must do. Bodies are subjects. Bodies are subjected. Bodies produce. Bodies reproduce. Bodies depend. Bodies resist. Bodies are vulnerable. Bodies put themselves on the line. Bodies matter. Bodies support. Bodies care. The panel seeks to examine the implications and reverberations of austerity, globalization, rapid transformations, economic downturn, precarity, in/difference, in/justice, re/production, and re/distribution with regards to the spa-tialised implications of bodies co-producing public life and bodies co-dependent in a politics of care. The panel is dedicated to seeking new alignments, critical links, and productive transgressions between emergent practices, theories, and histories addressing bodies in public life and a politics of care. The panel welco-mes contributions questioning, unpacking, and critiquing these complexities with a particular focus on feminist spatial agency in contemporary art, curating, urban research, and urban design, as well as the history and theory linking and trans-gressing these fields.

Keynote Lecture: Kim Trogal, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, UK

Discussant: Julia Wieger, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

Contact: Prof. Mag. Elke Krasny, Professor for Arts and Communication, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and City of Vienna Visiting Professor 2014 (winter term), Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Contact: elke.krasny@gmail.com

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Elke Krasny is a curator, cultural theo-rist, and writer.She is a Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. In 2014 she was Visiting Professor at the Uni-versity of Technology in Vienna (SKu-OR), in 2013 she was Visiting Professor for Architecture and Urban Research at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuernberg. In 2006 she was Visiting Professor at the University of Bremen.

Her theoretical and curatorial work is firmly rooted in socially engaged art and critical spatial practices, urban epistemology, post-colonial theory, and feminist historiography. In her conceptually driven and research-ba-sed curatorial practice she works along the intersections of art, architecture, education, feminism, landscape, spatial politics, and urbanism. She aims to contribute to innovation and debate in these fields through forging expe-rimental post-disciplinary alignments between research, teaching, curating, and writing.

She is a member of ikt –International Association of Curators of Contempo-rary Art, of AICA International Associa-tion of Art Critics in Austria, of AAHA,

Art Architecture History Assembly, of SAH Society of Architectural Historians and of ICAM International Confederati-on of Architectural Museums.

In this speech Kim Trogal will present work from her PhD, which recognises care as a form of action in spatial practice. In particular, she is concerned with the ways care can make both com-mons and connections. She introduces aspects of the spatial politics of care and interdependence, particularly from the perspective of feminist political economy and follows the work of key thinkers in the field (Federici, Mies, Fortunati) to explores commons, as a space in which to reconfigure and recognise relations of dependency. In doing so, Care also has the capacity to frame new standpoints for us and make transversal connections between us.

Kim is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cen-tral Saint Martins, University of the Arts Lon-don. She completed her architectural studies at University of Sheffield, including a PhD in Architecture (2012) for which she was awar-ded the RIBA LKE Ozolins Studentship. Kim is also a Post Doctoral Research Assistant at the Sheffield School of Architecture with Prof. Irena Bauman, researching Local Resilience. Kim is co-editor, with Prof. Doina Petrescu, of the book ‘The Social (Re)Production of Archi-tecture’ (Routldege, Forthcoming). She has worked in architectural practice and taught at Sheffield School of Architecture.

Caring for Space: Making Commons and Making Connections

Kim Trogal

Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Central St. Martins, University of the Arts, London

Introduction to Panel I: BodiesElke Krasny

Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

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functional implications of these places only for women. The architecture and also the connection to the public spa-ces of the gardens will be discussed.

Dr. Dipl.-Ing. M. Bostenaru Dan is Universität Karlsruhe/Germany graduate in architecture, specialisation urbanism. Her scientific title is from the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism. Within the project „Preservation of historically relevant constructions“ she did a building survey in Poland and was employed as research assistant for „Strong earthquakes“, both CRC at alma mater. With a DFG scholars-hip/GK “Natural Disasters” in Karlsruhe and a Marie Curie Training Site in Pavia/Italy research was done on „Applicability and economic effi-ciency of seismic retrofit measures on existing buildings“. She was experienced researcher for „Preservation of historic reinforced concre-te housing buildings across Europe“, a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship in Pavia. She returned to Romania with a Marie Curie Rein-tegration Grant on „The innovation in the plan of the current floor“. Since 2008 she is em-ployed researcher at the „Ion Mincu“ Univer-sity of Architecture and Urbanism, permanent position. There she was involved in CNCSIS project „Arts, Urban Communities, Mobilisa-tion“ and in two Architects‘ Stamp co-funded project: Tzigara-Samurcas archive and urban route Virginia Haret. She is project member at the „World Housing Encyclopedia“ since 2001 (editorial board 2003-2006), did consulting in a CNMP project of the University of Bucharest „Multihazard and vulnerability in the seismic context of Bucharest city“ and was employed in a CNCS project at the same on „Spatial and temporar patterns of vulnerability“ as well as co-teaching the course „Risks“ at the „Ion Mincu“ University. She is MC member at the

COST actions „Semantic enrichment of 3D city models for sustainable urban development“ and „The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems“, spending several months in Portugal and steering committee member of the ESF „Network for Digital Methods in Arts and Humanities“. She represents the Marie Curie Fellows Association, where she is board member of more than 4 years, in the COST action genderSTE. She had Canadian Centre of Architecture support and a DOMUS grants from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Currently postdoctoral researcher/EU funds in geography on the topic “Hazard impact on settlements: digital means for representation and analysis”. For 2015-2016 she won a Vasi-le Parvan grant of the Romanian government to do research at the Accademia di Romania a Roma on women architecture and water.

This contribution proposes to look on a topic related to bodies, the feminist spatial agency in architecture and ur-ban planning in history.Like in a decision tree, women are con-sidered in different actor roles: mece-ne, planner and user.As a mecene, we chose three ex-amples: Martha Bibesco in conjunction with the restoration of the Mogosoaia Palace (including the public space of the gardens), Princess Ioana Ghica and the gardens of Villa Gamberaia in Italy and Queen Mary of Romania and the Palace in Balcic, with its gardens and pavilions.

The women chosen as a planer are connected to this: Maria Theresa Parpagliolo the first Italian landscape architect was inspired among others by Villa Gamberaia, as was Pietro Porci-nai. Henrietta Delavrancea Gibory, a pioneer Romanian woman architect worked in Balcic. But there are also other aspects, which relate to the next item, women as users. Such is the architecture of leisure. This includes Balcic being a seaside resort, and the villas of Henrietta Delavrancea Gibo-ry were vacation housing. Virginia Andreescu Haret, the first Romanian woman architect, did also a casino for Govora, a bathing place. Apart of being

users in leisure architecture, as we will see, a special place for designing for women is in architecture of spirituality. The known Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi, a pioneer, designed a church in Brasil, and Attilia Travaglio Vaglieri, another pioneer architect, a church by Genova. Also Virginia Andreescu Haret designed a church for Bucharest. More contemporary, spiritual places are represented by memorials, such as the Igualada cemetery by Carmen Pinos and Enrique Miralles, or the contributi-on of Nina Libeskind to the work of the husband.

In the architecture of leisure, women face the fact that some architecture programmes, such as the programme of spa-s, displayed in history the se-paration according to gender. For this reason we consulted historical plans, starting with Vitruv and going over archive research for bathes in Budapest (from Art Nouveau), but including also training of a student for a contempo-rary spa and discussing with architects about contemporary spa planning in Hungary. In the architecture of spiritual places, the gender separation is not in the same building, but in complexes, such as monasteries. We collected some information about modern and contemporary monasteries, to see the

Architecture for and by women Maria Bostenaru Dan

University of Bucharest, Romania

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE February 2012 – October 2012 Architect – MCBAD / Colomer Dumont Archi-tectes. Paris and Valencia. September 2010 – January 2012 Architect (Internship) – García- Floquet Arqui-tectos. Valencia.

PUBLICATIONS Forthcoming April 2015“United Urban States”. Monu magazine issue 22 “Transnational Urbanism”. Rotterdam.September 2014‘Year 2050’. Trans magazine issue 25 “Specula-tive”. gta Verlag. ETH Zürich.

CONFERENCES / WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS November 2014 ‘Year 2050.A performative piece on sustainabi-lity and the limits of science. At Changing Wor-lds Conference, Departement of Philosophy, University of Vienna,Austria.

July 2014‘The green storm’. A participative performance and debate. At Biosphere n+1 Symposium. Uni-versity of Natural Ressources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria). August 2014 ‘They are coming’. Workshop tutor. Internatio-nal Festival for Art and Construction. Covarrubi-as, Burgos(Spain). August 2012 ‘Kitchen’. Workshop tutor. Wastelands XXXII European Architecture Students Assembly. Helsinki (Finland). September 2010 ‘The red flood: the Turia riverbed’. Project presentation and talk. Encuentro Entre Escue-las10. ETSAM, Madrid (Spain). August 2009 ‘Commercial: city branding’. Workshop tutor. SupermARCHet city. Darfo Boario Terme (Italy).

Art, Resistance and Protest: The Case of “Salvem El Cabanyal”, Valencia, Spain Matilde Igual

University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria

El Cabanyal is one of Valencia´s mariti-me districts. Several aspects of the area are quite specific within the city: the urban fabric, characteristic of fisher-men´villages; the architectural style developed by its inhabitants during the 1910 and 1920, a vernacular Art Déco; a big social diversity, including families descending from the first fis-hermen settlers, roma families (housed, mostly, but not only, in social housing projects), undocumented migrants, students… In 1998, the city´s government appro-ved a plan to extend a large avenue to the sea. The avenue would cross into the district, isolating both sides and would involve the destruction of 1,650 houses. That same year, a group of neighbours organized themselves to protect their homes and work together as civil resistance, under the plat-form“Salvem El Cabanyal”. For decades, the area remains in a cycle of degradation and ever growing decay. The city council has actively contributed to it through a series of dubious strategies including buying houses to tear them down, encoura-ging drug commerce in the area and depriving the district from basic ser-vices. “Salvem el Cabanyal” has worked on several fronts, bringing city council´s

decisions to trial, documenting the neighbourhood´s heritage, promoting the district and organizing marches and events. One of the strengths of the movement is to involve the city´s art scene with the daily struggle of the inhabitants of the district. Through ini-tiatives such as “Portes Obertes”, whe-re artists exhibit in a series of houses; Cabanyal Íntim, a performance festival taking place in public and private spa-ces, publishing catalogues; supporting workshops iniciated by other actors… “Salvem” hopes to give visibility to the district and render a positive image of the area. It also gives space to the neighbours to tell their stories, and the stories of their homes and dear places, through artistic means. It is this point of encounter between neighbours, activists, and neighbours which I intend to explore, using “Salvem El Cabanyal” as a case study.

EDUCATION January 2016 (Expected)Master of Arts at the Art and Science depart-ment, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna.November 2011 Dipl. Architect, Universidad Politécnica, Valencia. September 2006 – September 2007 Erasmus Scholarship, Architecture, Ecole Nati-onale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Val-de-Seine, Paris.

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DiscussantJulia Wieger

Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

Julia Wieger works as an architect in Vi-enna. She works as a senior scientist at the department for art and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, as well as in the context of self-organi-zed, collective projects. In her research based art and design projects she in-vestigates the politics of the producti-on of space. She is part of the research project “Spaces of Commoning“, also based at the Academy of Fine Arts. She is a member of the board of the Associ-ation of Women Artists Austria (VBKÖ).

Once upon a time, we knew how to “share the space”, even how to “share the horizon”... The concerned space here is simply called “rooftop”, but this so-called rooftop is a lot more; It is also the courtyard for the upper neighbour. In silent summer nights, it is a calm terrace under the ceiling of the sky on which one can sleep, contemplate the stars, and dream. As the sun rises up, it offers the huge panoramic gazebo to just sit and appreciate how the day reveals the village and how the story of the everyday life begins. During the day, the rooftop becomes sometimes the extension of the kitchen, the play-ground for the kids, the meeting place of women, and by the afternoon, it becomes the coffee place of old men. while for a festive social event as a ma-riage or the religious ones, all rooftops of our story will assemble to create an spectacular scene for both the audien-ce and the performers.

Analysing the case study of the old sustainable stepped villages in Kurdis-tan, Iran (average estimated age about 500 years), this contribution aims to introduce a chronotopic approach to address the space-body relation, and to analyse how the understanding of the underlying rhythms of the everyday life practiced by local people has led to the

formation of a new adaptable kind of urban space with a constant changing character; from the most private and intimate to the most public and urban.

Phd student , architecture, GERPHAU | UMR LAVUE 7218 CNRS (ENSA Paris La-Villette | ED 31 pratique et Théorie du sens | Université Paris 8) , supervisor : Xavier BONNAUD , 2014-presentMaster of architecture, mention recherche, ENSA Paris La-Villette, 2011-2013License of architecture, Téhéran University, Fine Arts Faculty, 2006-2011 Member of « National Fondation of Élites » in Iran, from 2006.Architecture price of « Mirmiran » , 1st place, april 2007, Iran.International Concours of IFHP 2010, 3rd pla-ce,group work,december 2010, Porto Alegré, Brésil.

Publications : „Landscape Architecture in Portugal, A review on Nunes’ Experience“ Nafiseh Mousavian, MANZAR Journal, Issue 15, Summer 2011.„Giles Clement; the Gardner of Nature“Nafiseh Mousavian, MANZAR Journal, Issue 14, Spring 2011.

Tale of a Rooftop Nafiseh Mousavian

ENSA Paris La-Villette, France

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14:00 Place – Introduction (Sabine Knierbein)

14:10 Keynote Speech (Kirsten Simonsen)

14:50 Break

15:10 Panel Presentations

From Bodies of Political Space to Bodies as Space of Politics: Women in Turkey in “Eclipse of Reason” (Burcu Ateş, Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

Children in open public space. A case study from Banjaluka (Dajana Rokvić, Vienna UT, Austria)

Borderline Places. New Urban University Campus Life and urban peripheries in Turkey (Ali Kemal Terlemez, Ozyegin University and İstanbul Kultur University, Istanbul, Turkey)

16:10 Discussant Feedback (Sandra Huning)

16:30 General Debate (Sabine Knierbein)

17:00 Designing Places of Emancipation movie

17:20 Symposium Quiz (student group)

The debate around abstract spaces of capitalism and how they been mediated through planning and design professions has been taken up again critically, both from relational perspectives on public space and from anthropological approaches to embodied spaces. This session is dedicated to unraveling new urban planning, design and urban studies approaches addressing relational geographies and politics of care in these fields. Potential contributions to this panel might address issues of bodily experience and action, as well as relational pedagogies or cur-ricular innovations bearing capacity to enhance education and reorganize elites through critical practice, action and reflection in and on public space. It welcomes contributions that seek to differentiate and qualify contemporary debates on the (re)emergence of collective interests, urban cultures and public claims, and strengthens a reading of forms of embodied resistance and protest as interventi-on and alteration in current modes of production of space and place.

Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Simonsen, Professor in Social and Cultural Geography, Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change (ENSPAC), Roskilde University, Denmark

Discussant: Dr. Sandra Huning, Centre for Urban and Regional Sociology, TU Dort-mund, Germany

Contact: Ass. Prof. Dr. Sabine Knierbein, Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Vienna University of Technology, knierbein@skuor.tuwien.ac.at

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Sabine Knierbein (Graduate Engineer Landscape Architecture, 2004; Dr. phil. in European Urban Studies, 2009) is As-sistant Professor for Urban Culture and Public Space at the Faculty of Architec-ture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology. She has worked on public space for fifteen years, and has publis-hed in English, German, French, Spa-nish and Portuguese. She is founding member of the AESOP Thematic Group for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures. She has worked as expert member of conference advisory boards in several countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Turkey, a.o.) and as expert on public, civic and social inno-vation both at municipal and national policy design level.Her current research interests are: epistemology of public space, emerging urban cultures, social difference in planning and architectural cultures, urban culture and social mo-vements, fair design. She has publis-hed Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe (2014) jointly with A. Madanipour and A. Degros and Public Space and Relational Perspectives – New Challenges for Ar-chitecture and Planning (2015) jointly with Chiara Tornaghi, both with Rout-ledge. She has peer-reviewed articles for several journals (JOLA, International Planning Studies, Sociology Journal,

Urban Studies) and is member of dif-ferent professional networks relating to urban studies AESOP, ESA, INURA, EURA, CEU Germany.

Dr. phil. European Urban StudiesGraduate Engineer in Open Space Plan-ning (FH) – Landscape Architecture

Assistant Professor for Urban Culture and Public Space (Tenure-Track)Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public SpaceDepartment for Spatial PlanningFaculty of Architecture and PlanningVienna University of Technology

Introduction to Panel II: PlaceSabine Knierbein

SKuOR, University of Vienna, Austria

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From a practice-oriented re-reading of phenomenology the talk will explo-re the relationship between bodily practices, space and place and ‘new’ humanist perspectives on the produc-tion of space. It starts from a thinking of the body as a phenomenal, lived body laden with emotions and ridden with power. From there, it explores a version of the phenomenological conception of directedness or orien-tation and its spatial implications. On the background of recent prominences of posthumanist thinking in urban stu-dies, this is used to argue for a ‘new’ humanism emphasizing issues of lived experience, notions of subjectivity and agency. Just to end up by discussing bodily operations in the production of space and place.

Kirsten Simonsen is a Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at Roskilde Uni-versity, Denmark. She is interested in ur-ban cultures and everyday life, theories of space and place, social and critical theory in geography, and the history and philo-sophy of geography. Her current research on the borderline between practice theory and postcolonialism focus on cross-cultural encounters, ethnic minorities, practices of identity and racism in Denmark. Kirsten has been active in the debates of critical geography in both the Nordic countries and the international context, she has published numerous articles in refereed journals such as Antipode, Environment and Planning D, Progress in Human Geo-graphy, Geografiska Annaler, Ethnicities and European Urban and Regional Studies, and among her books are Voices from the North (2003, with Jan Öhman) and Space Odysseys (2004, with Jørgen Ole Bæren-holdt), and in Danish Byens mange ansigter [The multiple faces of the city] (2005) and ‘Den fremmede’, byen og nationen [‘The stranger’, the city and the nation] (2010, with Lasse Koefoed).

Body, space and place: a view from ‘Critical Phenomenology’

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Roskilde University, Denmark

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Dual relation along bodies and space triggers an embodied practice of space within everyday life: Bodies can manifest their resistance through occupying space; therefore, they change the rhythm of the everyday and re-claim the public space. Wi-thin this research, embodied practices on/of space will be discussed from perspec-tives of resistant female bodies in Turkey through three major cases from within changing political practices. The discussion starts from “Saturday Mothers” who have occupied İstiklal Street every Saturday for 519 weeks now. Having both Kurdish and female identity, Saturday Mothers embodied another spatial resistance and changed perception over limits of public-ness and politisation that a female body, also a Kurdish female body, can have. From that point, Gezi Uprising, one of the most important rebellions of Turkey, will be dis-cussed secondly as it have altered the way bodies resist/occupy/appropriate, which again affected perception over women as bodies of resistance. After discussing bodies of political space, as a last point, female bodies as “space of politics” which appears through political discourses by power holders will be tackled. Therefore, the current “eclipse of reason” in Turkey is worth to be debated particularly through emphasizing pressure over women as they become means of presenting political power. Here, again embodied reactions of

bodies will be discussed as a practice of resistance. Thus, throughout the research, changing bodily experiences of women in Turkey will be inquired both as their theo-retical and practical consequences.

I’m a fresh architect, having the degree of Ba-chelor of Architecture from Middle East Techni-cal University in Turkey. During my Bachelor, I was accepted to City Planning Minor Program-me and completed it successfully at the same time with my graduation from Architecture. Therefore, my interest in “city” and “urban” started with that Minor Programme where I had chance to study several subjects on urban studies. After my Bachelor, I started my Master studies in METU Department of Architecture. My current thesis research is called “A Spatial Impromptus: Green Resistance by Guerrila Gar-dening:” under supervision of Güven Arif Sar-gın whose research field is on politics of space, Marxist theories and urban architecture. As part of my Master studies, I took several courses on urban public spaces, production of space, politics of space and urban sociology both in METU and in TU Wien where I was an exchange student and participated in module courses of SKuOR. Apart from my academic education, I have been involved in several nati-onal and international workshops and summer schools on architecture and urbanism. Recent-ly, I involved in a project about publishing a book on resistance of inhabitants in one of the urban transformation areas of Ankara. As for my professional background, I had worked as an architect in of the architecture offices in Ankara for a year, before I went to Vienna. After coming back to Ankara, I started to work in Chamber of Architects Ankara Branch where I’m also the Associate Member of the Executive Board and member of several committees.

From Bodies of Political Space to Bodies as Space of Politics: Women in Turkey in “Eclipse of Reason”Burcu Ateş

Middle East Technical University, Turkey

In this paper different theories on child-ren´s perception of the space and their mobility in open public surfaces will be presented. Here, I argue that children are in subordinate position in urban pla-ning. The subordinate position reflects in their inability to move safely through most of open public places, parks, streets, building blocks etc. However, the reality is worse than it seems, because due to sudden urbanisation, in-vestors often build places without green surfaces, without places for children to play and spent their childhood in. Natu-rally, this defers from city to city, from neighbourhood to neighbourhood...This paper will focus on answering why is important to provide a certain sur-faces and useful contents to a child in his/hers immediate vicinity, and what a healthy environment for a child in urban environment seems like.

The theoretical part will focus on analysing previous studies done in this field such as „Sometimes birds sound like fish”: Perspectives on children´s place experiences” by Tori Derr, and “Is contact with nature important for healthy child development? State of the evidence” by Andrea Faber Taylor and Frances E. Kuo as well as other authors relevant in this field. Practical research will focus on study done in City of Ban-

jaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where city once known by its green surfaces, and places for children to play, today becomes a playground for investors who barely consider the needs of people, let alone children.

Dajana Rokvić was born in 1988 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is a Master of Science in Architecture. Dajana has finished her bachelor studies at the University of Ban-jaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as one of the best students, with an average grade 9.53/10, and her Master studies in Vienna with distincti-on and with an overall grade 1/1.For her study efforts she has received many scholarships including a prestigious Herder Stipendium im Rahmen des Alfred Toepfer Stiftung, F. V. S. Temporarily she is involved in Doctoral programme in Engineering Sciences Architecture at Vienna University of Technolo-gy. In her free time, Dajana enjoys taking pho-tographs and writing.

Children in open public space. A case study from Banjaluka

Dajana Rokvić

Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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DiscussantSandra Huning

Dortmund University of Technology, Germany

Dr. Sandra Huning studied spatial planning in Dortmund, Germany, and Grenoble, France, and finished her dis-sertation „Political action in urban pu-blic spaces“ at the Berlin University of Technology, Faculty Planning Building Environment, in 2006. After doing rese-arch at the German Academy of Scien-ces Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) and at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin, she is now located at the Faculty of Spatial Planning at Dortmund Uni-versity of Technology, Germany, in the Urban Sociology Department. Her rese-arch focuses on spatial development , gender relations and gender planning; current debates in planning theory and sociology; and planning education. She teaches courses on gender and space, planning theory and currently also on energy-efficient urban retrofitting and its consequences for affordable housing. She has been co-editor of the book series „Planungsrundschau“ since 2003.

Private school and university foundations built huge campuses on the periphe-ries and forest lands with government supports. But these campuses are isolated from the urban dinamics.My research has focused on Alemdag District in Istanbul. Ozyegin University, in-formal residental areas and gated commu-nities are located in that district. There are only a few public spaces in this area. The university have developed rapidly in the last five years.The border between cam-pus and neighbourhood represents not only physical wall but also psychological wall. Because of social and economic dise-quilibrium people can not connect toeach other. The aim of the study was to inves-tigate the communication possibilities between university students and neigh-borhood populations. Ozyegin University located very crutial point in Istanbul which is near to connection highways and urban peripheries. The topography and walls do not allow neighborhood populations to access university easily. Also economic inequality causes city people and students not to meet freely. What‘s more, there are hardly any places to meet in the university campus. The first phase of the project involves mapping analyses from Istanbul scale to district scale. The second phase of study chooses some potential meeting places in the border line. Meeting places allow neighborhood populations to be

intergrated into education and social life. The final phase of study proposes a interactivation wall and occasion meadow. The study explores the consequences th-rough new designed-multifunctional walls of potential places. The projects discuss the mutual effect between students and low-educated neighborhood populations. The study queries spatial visions. Arts and sciences prepared a substructure to experience and action between two segregated groups on border line places. Movement areas, meeting spaces, fertile-ness walls and hubs contibute to universi-ty’s places.

I am studying PhD in Design, Innovation and Society Programme at Ozyegin University. I am also working as a research assistant at Istan-bul Kultur University. I‘m currently focusing on urban relations between residential zones and industrial zones. I am taking part in De-sign Studio as an adviser and tutor at Istanbul Kultur University, Interior Design Programme. I got my bachelor degree in 2010 from Istanbul Kultur University, Engineering and Architecture Faculty, Architecture Department also got my master degree in 2013 from Istanbul Technical University, Science and Technology Institute, Architecture Department. In 2012, I conducted a research stay at Technical University Eind-hoven, Netherlands as an Erasmus Student. With my colleagues I took part in architectural design competitions. We won two first prizes and two second prizes. I also took part in se-veral workshops in Turkey, France and Italy as a moderator or student. The most important workshop is ‚Betonart 2014‘ in Afyon Turkey, where I took part as a moderator.

Borderline Places. New Urban University Campus Life and urban peripheries in Turkey Ali Kemal Terlemez

Ozyegin University and İstanbul Kultur University, Istanbul, Turkey

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Matter09:50 Matter – Introduction (Rob Shields)

10:00 Keynote Speech (Sha XinWei)

10:40 Panel Presentations

The changing role of the public sector in spatial planning (Grazia Bonvissuto, Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

.Benevolence (Ekaterina Timina, Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Who cares after Red Vienna? Appropriating the city’s places of concern (Tihomir Viderman, Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

11:40 Discussant Feedback (Ian Banerjee)

12:00 General debate (Rob Shields)

12:30 Lunch Break

14:00 Rapporteurs’ Summary

Panel 1 Bodies (Elke Krasny) Panel 2 Place (Sabine Knierbein) Panel 3 Matter (Rob Shields)

14:30 Mobile Workshop (students)

Paradoxically, in a more globalized world where communication technologies have made interaction less dependent on bodies in a shared location, whe-re the ‚spaces of concern‘ lie either at planetary scales too large to grasp or nanotechnologies dissolve our faith in the solidity of matter, the materiality of bodies, trees and animals is still prominent. Concrete materiality anchors media and political concerns as the infrastructure of care and concern. Political force appears dependent on bodies occupying public places. Yet ‚what matters‘ is only recognized within a context or ‚space of concern‘ in which it takes on meaning. How are the empirical elements of cities, the bricks of public spaces and the flesh of bodies taken up through practices to become the pivots of ethical and political spatialisations of care and concern?

Keynote: Prof. Dr. Sha XinWei, Professor and Director, School of Arts, Media and Engineering, Synthesis Center, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA

Discussant: DI Ian Banerjee, Centre of Sociology, Vienna University of Technolo-gy, Austria

Contact: Prof. Dr. Rob Shields, Henry Marshall Tory Endowed Research Chair and Professor of Sociology, City-Region Studies Centre, Faculty of Extension, Universi-ty of Alberta Edmonton, Canada and City of Vienna Visiting Professor 2014 (sum-mer term) Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Vienna University of Technology, rshields@ualberta.ca

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Rob Shields work spans architecture, planning and urban geography. He aims to bring an interdisciplinary and global perspective to research on urban cultures, including the built environments of cities and the virtual social spaces if new media. He has a wide range of fieldwork experience in the Canadian North, Europe, China and Brazil. At University of Alberta‘s City-Region Studies Centre in Edmonton Canada he directs engaged, participatory research and design projects that leverage pub-lic curiosity and art- and practice-based approaches to consider the relations-hip between universities and commu-nities. He is an award-winning author and co-editor of numerous books including Building Tomorrow: Innova-tion in Construction and Engineering, Spatial Questions, The Virtual, Lifestyle Shopping, Cultures of Internet, and Places on the Margin as well as online projects such as strip-appeal.com and spaceandculture.comBefore being awarded the University of Alberta‘s Henry Marshall Tory Endowed Research Chair in Sociology, Dr. Shields was Professor of Sociology and past Director of the Institute of Interdisci-plinary Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. A Commonwealth Scholar at University of Sussex, Robs early career

was in passive solar design which he studied at Carleton University‘s School of Architecture. He founded Space and Culture an international peer-refereed journal, and Curb Canadian planning magazine. He was 2014 City of Vienna Visiting Professor in Architecture and Planning at TUWien and is currently completing research on nanotechnolo-gy as a space of concern.

Introduction to Panel III: MatterRob Shields

University of Alberta, Canada

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In the ‚Nature of Order‘, architect Chris-topher Alexander called for a physics fusing matter and value à la Spinoza, rather than matter formed only by geometry (Einstein) or number (Pytha-goras). With makers and theorists I explore the qualities of matter const-rued this way—as laden with value, to borrow Bilgrami’s phrase. I transmute Whitehead’s axiom of process philoso-phy, “How an entity becomes constitu-tes what the entity is,” to move from a concern about values of objects to concerns about value-generating or value-signifying processes. Classical theories oscillate between preconsti-tuted subjects perceiving, reasoning about, and acting on preconstituted objects. Sidestepping this, I consider objects, subjects, values, and relations all coconstituting each other in the ever-changing stuffs of which they are made. One key feature of this account is plurality: there can be boundlessly many fields of potential. Another is tex-tural natality—perceived as poiesis. We will see how value can arise out of the superposition of dynamic fields without requiring us to preconstitute particular subjects, or follow a totalizing telos. This relies on a triple conceptual shift: (1) from objects to continuous (non-di-screte) material fields — “stuff”, (2) from objects to processes, (3) from

values as predicates to processes that produce value. Under this conceptu-al sea-change, developing a textural account of care as a dynamical field of intensities offers an approach to the poetic and poietic articulation of publics that is perhaps, most vitally, non-anthropocentric.

Sha Xin Wei Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the School of Arts, Media + Engineering in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering. He is Director of the Synthesis Center for transversal art, philoso-phy and technology at Arizona State University, and is also a Fellow of the ASU-Santa Fe Institu-te Center for Biosocial Complex Systems.Trained in differential geometry, analysis on manifolds and geometric measure theory, his early work was in scientific simulations and hu-man-computer systems architecture. Since his degrees in mathematics from Harvard and Stan-ford, Dr. Sha‘s core research concerns ethico-ae-sthetic improvisation, and a topological appro-ach to ontogenesis and process philosophy. His art and scholarly work range from gestural media, movement arts, and realtime media in-stallation through interaction design to critical studies and philosophy of technology.In 2001 Sha established the Topological Media Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an atelier for the study of gesture and materia-lity from computational and phenomenological perspectives. From 2005-2013 as Canada Rese-arch Chair in media arts and sciences and Asso-ciate Professor of Computer Science and of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montréal, Dr. Sha led the TML in creating responsive environ-ments for ethico-aesthetic improvisation. MIT Press published Dr. Sha’s Poiesis, Enchantment and Topological Media in 2013.

Textural Care and Natality: the Stuff of PublicsXin Wei Sha

Herberger Inst. for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering, AZ/USA

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Arising government failures in the 1970ies weakened the trust in go-vernment interventions and shifted the focus to private sector activities. Traditionally, in Austria spatial planning is assigned to the public sector. So far, however, there has been little discus-sion on connections between shifts in the public sector and changes in the Austrian spatial planning system.

Hence, at first the study seeks to clarify why spatial planning generally is a public task. Therefore, on the one hand a historical overview of spatial planning and public sector activities is given. On the other hand a normative approach helps to analyse the reasons for spatial planning. The results show that spatial planning efforts arose at a time when public sector interventions enjoyed strong demand. The normative approach justifies spatial planning as public task in every single case of mar-ket failure; especially concerning public goods and externalities.

The second part deals with the questi-on how tasks of spatial planning have been fulfilled. The main focus lies in a stakeholder analysis. Consequently, a positive approach is used. Current renewals of formal and informal agree-ments show changes in the Austrian

spatial planning system. However,until now no evident reason has been inves-tigated for the change. The case study, hence, is restricted to the Austrian system of spatial planning. The results, shown in a time diagram, indicate especially a shift from government to governance and an increase in public participation. A growing importance of regional development as well as effects of Globalization can be named as reasons.

My name is Grazia Bonvissuto and I studied spatial planning on the Vienna University of Technology. Two years ago I completed my study with a master degree. In my master the-sis I dealt with the economic effects of biomass cultivation.Since my degree I am working as a project as-sistant on the Vienna University of Technology at the Center of Public Finance and Infrastruc-ture Policy. At the same time I started to write my doctoral thesis entitled “The Role of the Public Sector in Establishing Protected Areas”.

The changing role of the public sector in spatial planning Grazia Bonvissuto

Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Whether you realise it or not, a city is a living organism. It has its own laws, systems, processes, interactions and synergies. But what is our role in it? Being its viewer, we keep the eyes open and gaze and hark. Being an actor we can interfere. Build it. Change it. Interrupt it. Even destroy it. Being a part of it we feel it on an intu-itive level, we get its signals directly, avoiding the imperfection of verbal communication.

Project .BENEVOLENCE is a ever-gro-wing photographic series that appeals to this intuitive level of city perception, to the feeling of biological unity with the urban body. Started in 2012 and shot in various places it focusses on little wrinkles and birthmarks, on scars and scratches, bringing us back to the moments of deep empathy to the big kind monster we live in. It searches for its fears and hopes, for its shyness and pains.

To have a happy healthy body we need total engagement and perfect mutual understanding of the whole orchestra of its systems. Same for a happy city. We have to sharpen up the senses, to let ourself be charmed by little coin-cidences, to feel the geometry and

chemistry of the urban body, to build compassion, excuse mistakes and help in need.

My name is Ekaterina Timina. In 2012 I gradua-ted from Moscow Architectural University with specialisation in Urban Design and decided to continue the studies in the Master Program for Spatial Planning at the technical University of Vienna. While studying i always felt an urge to imply the received knowledge and to boost my skills with practice - so i started working rela-tively early and never regretted that - despite totally losing free time i gained the experience in a broad variety of professional areas- from interior to urban design, from residential archi-tecture to public space and landscape design, ending up so far in the area of city develop-ment. Throughout these years i had the honour to participate in numerous projects and competi-tions. Among them was the developing of the strategy for the future grow of Moscow, resi-dential districts, reviving old industrial areas, numerous parks and public spaces and many more. The passion to architecture and cities themselves is complimented by a long-term relationship with photography. Some of the works got published, some exhibited, and in 2009 I got an experience of being on the both sides of an exhibition - as an organiser and a participant at the same time. I believe photo-graphy helps me to develop a better feeling for the city, its state, its mood and nature. I search for the light spots on a night, for the inter-ruptions in everyday moves, for the complexity of small things and for the unity of the masses

.Benevolence Ekaterina Timina

Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

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A parentalistic politics of institutions of Vienna’s social democratic regime has for almost a century been acclaimed both locally and internationally for providing comprehensive welfare to the city’s residents, while successfully adapting to globalised urbanization patterns. The city’s institutions have devotedly promoted the heritage of Red Vienna, as they have tried to reconcile their declared commitment to social democratic tradition with a pur-suit of competitive growth strategies aiming to entice accelerated flows of people (talent), capital, knowledge and services to the city. These endeavours, however, have also been criticized for falling short of nurturing a divergence of perspectives and creating an en-vironment for meaningful involvement of multiple urban publics. Agency of critical urban actors have imbued Vi-enna’s space of social democracy with counter-meanings. It has sought to mo-bilize collective energy in stimulating use value of urban space while raising the alarm against enhancing its exchan-ge value, which institutional actors have allegedly paid more attention to. Critical urban actors draw a discursive reference to political practices and phi-losophy materialized during the sixties and seventies in the West, yet their po-litical engagement in places of concern

seems to be closer to strategies and tactics of cultural production. The city’s administration concurrently develops a means to include (insurgent) political actions and their counter-spaces into (institutional) politics. This contributi-on explores the planning process and political counter-actions pertaining to the redevelopment of the redundant gas production plant, Gaswerk Leopol-dau to scrutinize how city’s places of concern have been produced and put on the political radar.

Tihomir Viderman is a trained architect and urbanist, with an engineering degree from University of Zagreb, and a Master’s degree from Bauhaus Universität Weimar, currently affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space of Vienna Uni-versity of Technology as a research assistant. He is involved in research and teaching on the topic of public space seen as relational space as well as on emerging cultural practices. His main research interests pertain to both cons-cious and unconscious tactics and strategies of the mental production of meaning as a means of making places and shaping urban cultures. He is interested in the transfers of knowled-ge between theory, urban activism and arti-stic practices, and explores the application of participatory action research in planning and design disciplines, as paths to reinforcing the bodily lived experience and overcoming a dis-cursive bias in planning and design processes, as well as the means of challenging professio-nals’ one-sided goal-oriented way of thinking and acting in regard to complex social space.

Who cares after Red Vienna? Appropriating the city’s places of concern Tihomir Viderman

Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Discussant Ian Banerjee

Centre of Sociology, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Ian Banerjee studied architecture in Vienna with focus on urbanism. He has been looking into urban issues for 15 years and for six years now he has developed a keen interest for ques-tions around the future of education. He wrote his Masters thesis on the planning principles of Curitiba in Brazil, then he worked several years for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) and the German Satellite TV 3Sat as consultant for documentaries on cities. During this time he conducted research in Tokio, Kioto, Hanoi, Shang-hai, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Kolkata, Mumbai, Paris, Washington and Mexico City. In 2008 he joined the Centre of Sociology (ISRA) at the Vienna University of Technology as assistant professor. During this time, he worked for three years on the National Spatial Strategy for the Sultanate of Oman. The exposure to the complexities of national policy making in the Arab wor-ld shaped his conviction for the need of new forms of educational practices and the strategic need for broader forms societal learning. Based on over 150 global references collected in the last six years, he is currently writing a

book about the growing inter-linkages between education, various forms of ‘urban learning’ and urbanism. He coined the term ‚Education Urbanism’ in 2010.

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The symposium organisational process was supported by an interdisciplinary group of students from different parts of the world with various professional and educational backgrounds - from architecture and urbanism to communication spe-cialists. This collaborative approach allowed to hold a more flexible format of the event and add a drop of informality into the program.

SpecialsChange of Venue: Mobiles Stadtlabor, Karlsplatz, U-Bahn Station Resselpark, 1040 Vienna

18:00 Book Presentation „Public Space and Relational Perspectives“

Panel Debate with Dr. Sandra Huning (TU Dortmund, Germany), Prof. Kirsten Simonsen (University of Roskilde, Denmark), DI Ian Banerjee (Vienna UT), and Ass. Prof. Dr. Sabine Knierbein (Vienna UT), Moderation: DI Tihomir Viderman MSc (Vienna UT)

20:00 SKuOR Soirée (Reception)

To give the participants and guests an opportunity to get to know each other and support the exchange in the professional community a set of two workshops is suggested.

Workshop 1 - Symposium QuizzTrivia time! After a long day of sharing knowledge it is time it relax and have some fun! The participants are invited to build small teams and participate in a Symposium Quizz. Questions and anecdotes from the area of city culture and urbanism were specially prepared for this occasion! The winner team get special Prizes from the Organizers.

Start: 17 April 17:20Time: ca. 40 minutesLocation: Multi-Purpose Space

Workshop 2 - Treasure HuntVienna has lots of treasures to sha-re! The participants are invited to hunt them in a format of a traditional “Schnitzeljagd” game. Groups receive their first question after the Rappor-teurs’ summary and the hunt begins! The answer to the first question takes you to the second one and so on, on the route from the Academy to the Resselpark. On the way teams not only have the fun of chasing down the ques-tions, but also get to know the nearby locations.

Start: 18 April 14:30Time: 1 hour, depends on the teamLocation: Vienna City

Impressum

Published and printed byInterdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public SpaceDepartment for Spatial PlanningFaculty of Architecture and PlanningTechnische Universität WienKarlsgasse 13/21040 Wien

ConceptElke KrasnySabine KnierbeinRob Shields

ContributorsBurcu AtesIan BanerjeeGrazia BonvissutoMaria Bostenaru DanAngelika GabauerSandra HuningMatilde IgualSabine KnierbeinValentina KoflerElke KrasnyNafiseh MousavianDajana RokvićXin Wei ShaRob ShieldsKirsten SimonsenAli Kemal TerlemezEkaterina TiminaKim TrogalTihomir VidermanJulia Wieger

Public Life - Towards a politics of careBodies. Place. Matter.

PhD Symposium17th/18th April 2015

Vienna

Editorial teamValentina KoflerAngelika GabauerTihomir Viderman

RevisionTihomir Viderman

Layout and DesignValentina Kofler

Image sourcesCover: Ekaterina TiminaMap: Google (edited)

Contactinfo@skuor.tuwien.ac.at

Date17.04.2015

ISBN 978-3-902707-17-8