Bodies. Place. Matter

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

PhD Symposium 17th/18th April 2015 Vienna Info Info Public Life - Towards a politics of care Bodies. Place. Matter. PhD Symposium, Vienna, 17th/18th April 2015 Public Life - Towards a politics of care Bodies. Place. Matter. PhD Symposium 17th/18th April 2015 Organized by Prof. Elke Krasny, Ass. Prof. Sabine Knierbein & Prof. Rob Shields Venues Venue: Studio Building, Multi-Purpose Space (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Lehargas- Studio Building of the Academy of se 8, 1060 Vienna) and Mobiles Stadtlabor, (TU Wien, Resselpark/Karlsplatz,1040 Fine Arts Vienna, Multi-Purpose Vienna) Space (“Mehrzweckhalle”), 2nd floor, Admission: Free Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien A politics of care needs to be situated between bodies, place and matter. These come Mobiles Stadtlabor Karlsplatz, U-Bahn together both as elements of public and political life in cities and as as the subjects of Station Resselpark, 1040 Vienna research, knowledge production, and scientific inquiry. This conference aims to take up the complexities of public life and a new politics of care  see map below 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 The conference addresses students in and cultural disciplines. A common politics of care addresses the entanglement of infra- the related fields of urban studies and structures, resources, and affects, alignments, contradictions, and conflicts, labour, work, planning in their late master or PhD phase. and pleasure, distribution and access, local site-specificity and a globalized production of They are encouraged to present their Published by SKuOR space. If public space is indeed a critical part of public life or the embodied geographies current thesis topic to a wider audience. http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at of the public sphere, then we need to rethink its inherent potentials between everyday ISBN 978-3-902707-17-8 life practices and the production and critical reflection of scientific insights/knowing. The programme may be subject to change. 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)

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Fri, 17th of April, 2015 10.00 Bodies – Introduction (Elke Krasny) 10.10 Keynote Speech (Kim Trogal) The panel is less about what bodies are, but rather about how bodies act, what 10:50 Panel Presentations bodies can do, what bodies must do. Bodies are subjects. Bodies are subjected. Bodies produce. Bodies reproduce. Bodies depend. Bodies resist. Bodies are Architecture for and by women vulnerable. Bodies put themselves on the line. Bodies matter. Bodies support. (Maria Bostenaru Dan, University Bodies care. The panel seeks to examine the implications and reverberations of of Bucharest, Romania) austerity, globalization, rapid transformations, economic downturn, precarity, in/ difference, in/justice, re/production, and re/distribution with regards to the spa- Art, Resistance and Protest: The tialised implications of bodies co-producing public life and bodies co-dependent Case of “Salvem El Cabanyal”, in a politics of care. The panel is dedicated to seeking new alignments, critical Valencia, Spain (Matilde Igual, links, and productive transgressions between emergent practices, theories, and University of Applied Arts Vienna, histories addressing bodies in public life and a politics of care. The panel welcomes contributions questioning, unpacking, and critiquing these complexities with Austria) 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- Tale of a Rooftop (Nafiseh Mousavian, gressing these fields. ENSA Paris La-Villette, France) Keynote Lecture: Kim Trogal, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Central Saint Martins, 11:50 Discussant Feedback (Julia Wieger) University of the Arts, London, UK

12:10 General Debate (Elke Krasny) Discussant: Julia Wieger, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

12:30 Lunch break 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: [email protected]

5 Bodies - Host Keynote - Bodies Introduction to Panel I: Bodies Caring for Space: Making Commons and Making Elke Krasny Connections Kim Trogal Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Central St. Martins, University of the Arts, London

Elke Krasny is a curator, cultural theo- Art Architecture History Assembly, of In this speech Kim Trogal will present rist, and writer. SAH Society of Architectural Historians work from her PhD, which recognises She is a Senior Lecturer at the Academy and of ICAM International Confederati- care as a form of action in spatial of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. In 2014 on of Architectural Museums. practice. In particular, she is concerned she was Visiting Professor at the Uni- with the ways care can make both com- versity of Technology in Vienna (SKu- mons and connections. She introduces OR), in 2013 she was Visiting Professor aspects of the spatial politics of care for Architecture and Urban Research at and interdependence, particularly from the Academy of Fine Arts Nuernberg. the perspective of feminist political In 2006 she was Visiting Professor at economy and follows the work of key the University of Bremen. thinkers in the field (Federici, Mies, Fortunati) to explores commons, as Her theoretical and curatorial work is a space in which to reconfigure and firmly rooted in socially engaged art recognise relations of dependency. In and critical spatial practices, urban doing so, Care also has the capacity to epistemology, post-colonial theory, frame new standpoints for us and make and feminist historiography. In her transversal connections between us. conceptually driven and research-based curatorial practice she works along the intersections of art, architecture, education, feminism, landscape, spatial politics, and urbanism. She aims to Kim is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cen- contribute to innovation and debate tral Saint Martins, University of the Arts Lon- in these fields through forging expe- don. She completed her architectural studies rimental post-disciplinary alignments at University of Sheffield, including a PhD in Architecture (2012) for which she was awar- between research, teaching, curating, ded the RIBA LKE Ozolins Studentship. Kim and writing. is also a Post Doctoral Research Assistant at the Sheffield School of Architecture with Prof. Irena Bauman, researching Local Resilience. She is a member of ikt –International Kim is co-editor, with Prof. Doina Petrescu, of Association of Curators of Contempo- the book ‘The Social (Re)Production of Archi- rary Art, of AICA International Associa- tecture’ (Routldege, Forthcoming). She has worked in architectural practice and taught at tion of Art Critics in Austria, of AAHA, Sheffield School of Architecture.

6 7 Bodies Bodies Architecture for and by women Maria Bostenaru Dan

University of Bucharest, Romania

This contribution proposes to look on users in leisure architecture, as we will functional implications of these places a topic related to bodies, the feminist see, a special place for designing for only for women. The architecture and spatial agency in architecture and ur- women is in architecture of spirituality. also the connection to the public spa- ban planning in history. The known Italian architect Lina Bo ces of the gardens will be discussed. Like in a decision tree, women are con- Bardi, a pioneer, designed a church sidered in different actor roles: mece- in Brasil, and Attilia Travaglio Vaglieri, ne, planner and user. another pioneer architect, a church Dr. Dipl.-Ing. M. Bostenaru Dan is Universität COST actions „Semantic enrichment of 3D city As a mecene, we chose three ex- by Genova. Also Virginia Andreescu Karlsruhe/Germany graduate in architecture, models for sustainable urban development“ amples: Martha Bibesco in conjunction Haret designed a church for Bucharest. specialisation urbanism. Her scientific title is and „The EU in the new complex geography of from the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture economic systems“, spending several months with the restoration of the Mogosoaia More contemporary, spiritual places and Urbanism. Within the project „Preservation in Portugal and steering committee member of Palace (including the public space of are represented by memorials, such as of historically relevant constructions“ she did a the ESF „Network for Digital Methods in Arts the gardens), Princess Ioana Ghica and the Igualada cemetery by Carmen Pinos building survey in Poland and was employed as and Humanities“. She represents the Marie the gardens of Villa Gamberaia in Italy and Enrique Miralles, or the contributi- research assistant for „Strong earthquakes“, Curie Fellows Association, where she is board both CRC at alma mater. With a DFG scholars- member of more than 4 years, in the COST and Queen Mary of Romania and the on of Nina Libeskind to the work of the hip/GK “Natural Disasters” in Karlsruhe and a action genderSTE. She had Canadian Centre Palace in Balcic, with its gardens and husband. Marie Curie Training Site in Pavia/Italy research of Architecture support and a DOMUS grants pavilions. was done on „Applicability and economic effi- from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. ciency of seismic retrofit measures on existing Currently postdoctoral researcher/EU funds In the architecture of leisure, women buildings“. She was experienced researcher in geography on the topic “Hazard impact on The women chosen as a planer are face the fact that some architecture for „Preservation of historic reinforced concre- settlements: digital means for representation connected to this: Maria Theresa programmes, such as the programme te housing buildings across Europe“, a Marie and analysis”. For 2015-2016 she won a Vasi- Curie Intra-European Fellowship in Pavia. She le Parvan grant of the Romanian government Parpagliolo the first Italian landscape of spa-s, displayed in history the se- returned to Romania with a Marie Curie Rein- to do research at the Accademia di Romania a architect was inspired among others by paration according to gender. For this tegration Grant on „The innovation in the plan Roma on women architecture and water. Villa Gamberaia, as was Pietro Porci- reason we consulted historical plans, of the current floor“. Since 2008 she is employed researcher at the „Ion Mincu“ Univer- nai. Henrietta Delavrancea Gibory, a starting with Vitruv and going over sity of Architecture and Urbanism, permanent pioneer Romanian woman architect archive research for bathes in Budapest position. There she was involved in CNCSIS worked in Balcic. But there are also (from Art Nouveau), but including also project „Arts, Urban Communities, Mobilisa- other aspects, which relate to the next training of a student for a contempo- tion“ and in two Architects‘ Stamp co-funded project: Tzigara-Samurcas archive and urban item, women as users. Such is the rary spa and discussing with architects route Virginia Haret. She is project member at architecture of leisure. This includes about contemporary spa planning in the „World Housing Encyclopedia“ since 2001 Balcic being a seaside resort, and the Hungary. In the architecture of spiritual (editorial board 2003-2006), did consulting in a CNMP project of the University of Bucharest villas of Henrietta Delavrancea Gibo- places, the gender separation is not in „Multihazard and vulnerability in the seismic ry were vacation housing. Virginia the same building, but in complexes, context of Bucharest city“ and was employed Andreescu Haret, the first Romanian such as monasteries. We collected in a CNCS project at the same on „Spatial and temporar patterns of vulnerability“ as well woman architect, did also a casino for some information about modern and as co-teaching the course „Risks“ at the „Ion Govora, a bathing place. Apart of being contemporary monasteries, to see the Mincu“ University. She is MC member at the

8 9 Bodies Bodies 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- decisions to trial, documenting the me districts. Several aspects of the area neighbourhood´s heritage, promoting are quite specific within the city: the the district and organizing marches urban fabric, characteristic of fisher- and events. One of the strengths of men´villages; the architectural style the movement is to involve the city´s developed by its inhabitants during art scene with the daily struggle of the the 1910 and 1920, a vernacular Art inhabitants of the district. Through ini- Déco; a big social diversity, including tiatives such as “Portes Obertes”, whe- families descending from the first fis- re artists exhibit in a series of houses; hermen settlers, roma families (housed, Cabanyal Íntim, a performance festival mostly, but not only, in social housing taking place in public and private spa- projects), undocumented migrants, ces, publishing catalogues; supporting students… workshops iniciated by other actors… In 1998, the city´s government appro- “Salvem” hopes to give visibility to the ved a plan to extend a large avenue to district and render a positive image the sea. The avenue would cross into of the area. It also gives space to the the district, isolating both sides and neighbours to tell their stories, and the would involve the destruction of 1,650 stories of their homes and dear places, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE February 2012 – October 2012 houses. That same year, a group of through artistic means. It is this point Architect – MCBAD / Colomer Dumont Archi- July 2014 neighbours organized themselves to of encounter between neighbours, tectes. Paris and Valencia. ‘The green storm’. A participative performance protect their homes and work together activists, and neighbours which I intend September 2010 – January 2012 and debate. At Biosphere n+1 Symposium. Uni- Architect (Internship) – García- Floquet Arqui- versity of Natural Ressources and Life Sciences, as civil resistance, under the plat- to explore, using “Salvem El Cabanyal” tectos. Valencia. Vienna (Austria). form“Salvem El Cabanyal”. as a case study. August 2014 For decades, the area remains in a PUBLICATIONS ‘They are coming’. Workshop tutor. Internatio- Forthcoming April 2015 nal Festival for Art and Construction. Covarrubi- cycle of degradation and ever growing EDUCATION “United Urban States”. Monu magazine issue as, Burgos(Spain). decay. The city council has actively January 2016 (Expected) 22 “Transnational Urbanism”. Rotterdam. August 2012 contributed to it through a series of Master of Arts at the Art and Science depart- September 2014 ‘Kitchen’. Workshop tutor. Wastelands XXXII dubious strategies including buying ment, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, ‘Year 2050’. Trans magazine issue 25 “Specula- European Architecture Students Assembly. Vienna. tive”. gta Verlag. ETH Zürich. Helsinki (Finland). houses to tear them down, encoura- November 2011 September 2010 ging drug commerce in the area and Dipl. Architect, Universidad Politécnica, CONFERENCES / WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS ‘The red flood: the Turia riverbed’. Project depriving the district from basic ser- Valencia. November 2014 presentation and talk. Encuentro Entre Escue- ‘Year 2050.A performative piece on sustainabi- las10. ETSAM, Madrid (Spain). vices. September 2006 – September 2007 Erasmus Scholarship, Architecture, Ecole Nati- lity and the limits of science. At Changing Wor- August 2009 “Salvem el Cabanyal” has worked on onale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Val-de- lds Conference, Departement of Philosophy, ‘Commercial: city branding’. Workshop tutor. several fronts, bringing city council´s Seine, Paris. University of Vienna,Austria. SupermARCHet city. Darfo Boario Terme (Italy).

10 11 Bodies Feedback - Bodies Tale of a Rooftop Discussant Nafiseh Mousavian Julia Wieger

ENSA Paris La-Villette, France Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

Once upon a time, we knew how to formation of a new adaptable kind of Julia Wieger works as an architect in Vi- “share the space”, even how to “share urban space with a constant changing enna. She works as a senior scientist at the horizon”... The concerned space character; from the most private and the department for art and architecture here is simply called “rooftop”, but this intimate to the most public and urban. at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, so-called rooftop is a lot more; It is also as well as in the context of self-organi- the courtyard for the upper neighbour. zed, collective projects. In her research In silent summer nights, it is a calm based art and design projects she in- terrace under the ceiling of the sky on Phd student , architecture, GERPHAU | UMR vestigates the politics of the producti- LAVUE 7218 CNRS (ENSA Paris La-Villette | ED which one can sleep, contemplate the 31 pratique et Théorie du sens | Université on of space. She is part of the research stars, and dream. As the sun rises up, Paris 8) , supervisor : Xavier BONNAUD , 2014- project “Spaces of Commoning“, also it offers the huge panoramic gazebo present based at the Academy of Fine Arts. She Master of architecture, mention recherche, to just sit and appreciate how the day ENSA Paris La-Villette, 2011-2013 is a member of the board of the Associ- reveals the village and how the story License of architecture, Téhéran University, ation of Women Artists Austria (VBKÖ). of the everyday life begins. During the Fine Arts Faculty, 2006-2011 day, the rooftop becomes sometimes Member of « National Fondation of Élites » in Iran, from 2006. the extension of the kitchen, the play- Architecture price of « Mirmiran » , 1st place, ground for the kids, the meeting place april 2007, Iran. of women, and by the afternoon, it International Concours of IFHP 2010, 3rd place,group work,december 2010, Porto Alegré, becomes the coffee place of old men. Brésil. while for a festive social event as a ma- riage or the religious ones, all rooftops Publications : „Landscape Architecture in Portugal, A review of our story will assemble to create an on Nunes’ Experience“ Nafiseh Mousavian, spectacular scene for both the audien- MANZAR Journal, Issue 15, Summer 2011. ce and the performers. „Giles Clement; the Gardner of Nature“ Nafiseh Mousavian, MANZAR Journal, Issue 14, Spring 2011. 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

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Fri, 17th of April, 2015 14:00 Place – Introduction (Sabine Knierbein)

14:10 Keynote Speech (Kirsten Simonsen) The debate around abstract spaces of capitalism and how they been mediated through planning and design professions has been taken up again critically, both 14:50 Break from relational perspectives on public space and from anthropological approaches to embodied spaces. This session is dedicated to unraveling new urban planning, 15:10 Panel Presentations design and urban studies approaches addressing relational geographies and politics of care in these fields. Potential contributions to this panel might address From Bodies of Political Space to issues of bodily experience and action, as well as relational pedagogies or cur- Bodies as Space of Politics: Women ricular innovations bearing capacity to enhance education and reorganize elites in Turkey in “Eclipse of Reason” through critical practice, action and reflection in and on public space. It welcomes (Burcu Ateş, Middle East Technical contributions that seek to differentiate and qualify contemporary debates on University, Turkey) the (re)emergence of collective interests, urban cultures and public claims, and strengthens a reading of forms of embodied resistance and protest as interventi- Children in open public space. on and alteration in current modes of production of space and place. A case study from Banjaluka Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Simonsen, Professor in Social and Cultural (Dajana Rokvić, Vienna UT, Austria) Geography, Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change (ENSPAC), Roskilde University, Denmark Borderline Places. New Urban University Campus Life and urban Discussant: Dr. Sandra Huning, Centre for Urban and Regional Sociology, TU Dort- peripheries in Turkey mund, Germany (Ali Kemal Terlemez, Ozyegin University and İstanbul Kultur Contact: Ass. Prof. Dr. Sabine Knierbein, Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture University, Istanbul, Turkey) and Public Space, Vienna University of Technology, [email protected] 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)

15 Place - Host Keynote - Place Introduction to Panel II: Place Body, space and place: Sabine Knierbein a view from ‘Critical Phenomenology’ Kirsten Simonsen SKuOR, University of Vienna, Austria Roskilde University, Denmark

Sabine Knierbein (Graduate Engineer Urban Studies) and is member of dif- From a practice-oriented re-reading of Landscape Architecture, 2004; Dr. phil. ferent professional networks relating phenomenology the talk will explo- in European Urban Studies, 2009) is As- to urban studies AESOP, ESA, INURA, re the relationship between bodily sistant Professor for Urban Culture and EURA, CEU Germany. practices, space and place and ‘new’ Public Space at the Faculty of Architec- humanist perspectives on the produc- ture and Planning, Vienna University of Dr. phil. European Urban Studies tion of space. It starts from a thinking Technology. She has worked on public Graduate Engineer in Open Space Plan- of the body as a phenomenal, lived space for fifteen years, and has publis- ning (FH) – Landscape Architecture body laden with emotions and ridden hed in English, German, French, Spa- with power. From there, it explores nish and Portuguese. She is founding Assistant Professor for Urban Culture a version of the phenomenological member of the AESOP Thematic Group and Public Space (Tenure-Track) conception of directedness or orien- for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures. Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for tation and its spatial implications. On Kirsten Simonsen is a Professor of Social She has worked as expert member of Urban Culture and Public Space the background of recent prominences and Cultural Geography at Roskilde Uni- conference advisory boards in several Department for Spatial Planning of posthumanist thinking in urban stu- versity, Denmark. She is interested in urban cultures and everyday life, theories of countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Faculty of Architecture and Planning dies, this is used to argue for a ‘new’ space and place, social and critical theory Germany, Portugal, Turkey, a.o.) and as Vienna University of Technology humanism emphasizing issues of lived in geography, and the history and philo- expert on public, civic and social inno- experience, notions of subjectivity and sophy of geography. Her current research on the borderline between practice theory vation both at municipal and national agency. Just to end up by discussing and postcolonialism focus on cross-cultural policy design level.Her current research bodily operations in the production of encounters, ethnic minorities, practices of interests are: epistemology of public space and place. identity and racism in Denmark. Kirsten has been active in the debates of critical space, emerging urban cultures, social geography in both the Nordic countries difference in planning and architectural and the international context, she has cultures, urban culture and social mo- published numerous articles in refereed journals such as Antipode, Environment vements, fair design. She has publis- and Planning D, Progress in Human Geo- hed Public Space and the Challenges of graphy, Geografiska Annaler, Ethnicities Urban Transformation in Europe (2014) and European Urban and Regional Studies, jointly with A. Madanipour and A. and among her books are Voices from the North (2003, with Jan Öhman) and Space Degros and Public Space and Relational Odysseys (2004, with Jørgen Ole Bæren- Perspectives – New Challenges for Ar- holdt), and in Danish Byens mange ansigter chitecture and Planning (2015) jointly [The multiple faces of the city] (2005) and ‘Den fremmede’, byen og nationen [‘The with Chiara Tornaghi, both with Rout- stranger’, the city and the nation] (2010, ledge. She has peer-reviewed articles with Lasse Koefoed). for several journals (JOLA, International Planning Studies, Sociology Journal,

16 17 Place Place From Bodies of Political Space to Bodies as Space of Children in open public space. Politics: Women in Turkey in “Eclipse of Reason” A case study from Banjaluka Burcu Ateş Dajana Rokvić Middle East Technical University, Turkey Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Dual relation along bodies and space bodies will be discussed as a practice of In this paper different theories on child- jaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where triggers an embodied practice of space resistance. Thus, throughout the research, ren´s perception of the space and their city once known by its green surfaces, within everyday life: Bodies can manifest changing bodily experiences of women in mobility in open public surfaces will be and places for children to play, today their resistance through occupying space; Turkey will be inquired both as their theo- presented. Here, I argue that children becomes a playground for investors who therefore, they change the rhythm of the retical and practical consequences. are in subordinate position in urban pla- barely consider the needs of people, let everyday and re-claim the public space. Wi- ning. The subordinate position reflects alone children. thin this research, embodied practices on/ in their inability to move safely through of space will be discussed from perspec- I’m a fresh architect, having the degree of Ba- most of open public places, parks, chelor of Architecture from Middle East Techni- tives of resistant female bodies in Turkey cal University in Turkey. During my Bachelor, I streets, building blocks etc. However, through three major cases from within was accepted to City Planning Minor Program- the reality is worse than it seems, changing political practices. The discussion me and completed it successfully at the same because due to sudden urbanisation, in- time with my graduation from Architecture. starts from “Saturday Mothers” who have Therefore, my interest in “city” and “urban” vestors often build places without green occupied İstiklal Street every Saturday started with that Minor Programme where I surfaces, without places for children to for 519 weeks now. Having both Kurdish had chance to study several subjects on urban play and spent their childhood in. Natu- and female identity, Saturday Mothers studies. After my Bachelor, I started my Master rally, this defers from city to city, from studies in METU Department of Architecture. embodied another spatial resistance and My current thesis research is called “A Spatial neighbourhood to neighbourhood... changed perception over limits of public- Impromptus: Green Resistance by Guerrila Gar- This paper will focus on answering why ness and politisation that a female body, dening:” under supervision of Güven Arif Sar- is important to provide a certain sur- gın whose research field is on politics of space, also a Kurdish female body, can have. From Marxist theories and urban architecture. faces and useful contents to a child in Dajana Rokvić was born in 1988 in Sarajevo, that point, Gezi Uprising, one of the most As part of my Master studies, I took several his/hers immediate vicinity, and what a Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is a Master of important rebellions of Turkey, will be discourses on urban public spaces, production of healthy environment for a child in urban Science in Architecture. Dajana has finished space, politics of space and urban sociology her bachelor studies at the University of Ban- cussed secondly as it have altered the way both in METU and in TU Wien where I was an environment seems like. jaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as one of the bodies resist/occupy/appropriate, which exchange student and participated in module best students, with an average grade 9.53/10, again affected perception over women courses of SKuOR. Apart from my academic The theoretical part will focus on and her Master studies in Vienna with distincti- education, I have been involved in several nation and with an overall grade 1/1. as bodies of resistance. After discussing onal and international workshops and summer analysing previous studies done in this For her study efforts she has received many bodies of political space, as a last point, schools on architecture and urbanism. Recent- field such as „Sometimes birds sound scholarships including a prestigious Herder female bodies as “space of politics” which ly, I involved in a project about publishing a like fish”: Perspectives on children´s Stipendium im Rahmen des Alfred Toepfer appears through political discourses by book on resistance of inhabitants in one of place experiences” by Tori Derr, and Stiftung, F. V. S. Temporarily she is involved in the urban transformation areas of Ankara. As Doctoral programme in Engineering Sciences power holders will be tackled. Therefore, for my professional background, I had worked “Is contact with nature important for Architecture at Vienna University of Technolo- the current “eclipse of reason” in Turkey is as an architect in of the architecture offices healthy child development? State of the gy. In her free time, Dajana enjoys taking pho- worth to be debated particularly through in Ankara for a year, before I went to Vienna. evidence” by Andrea Faber Taylor and tographs and writing. After coming back to Ankara, I started to work emphasizing pressure over women as they in Chamber of Architects Ankara Branch where Frances E. Kuo as well as other authors become means of presenting political I’m also the Associate Member of the Executive relevant in this field. Practical research power. Here, again embodied reactions of Board and member of several committees. will focus on study done in City of Ban-

18 19 Place Feedback - Place Borderline Places. New Urban University Campus Life Discussant and urban peripheries in Turkey Sandra Huning Ali Kemal Terlemez Dortmund University of Technology, Germany Ozyegin University and İstanbul Kultur University, Istanbul, Turkey

Private school and university foundations intergrated into education and social Dr. Sandra Huning studied spatial built huge campuses on the periphe- life. The final phase of study proposes a planning in Dortmund, Germany, and ries and forest lands with government interactivation wall and occasion meadow. Grenoble, France, and finished her dis- supports. But these campuses are isolated The study explores the consequences th- sertation „Political action in urban pu- from the urban dinamics. rough new designed-multifunctional walls blic spaces“ at the Berlin University of My research has focused on Alemdag of potential places. The projects discuss Technology, Faculty Planning Building District in Istanbul. Ozyegin University, in- the mutual effect between students and Environment, in 2006. After doing rese- formal residental areas and gated commu- low-educated neighborhood populations. arch at the German Academy of Scien- nities are located in that district. There are The study queries spatial visions. Arts ces Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) and at only a few public spaces in this area. The and sciences prepared a substructure the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of university have developed rapidly in the to experience and action between two Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in last five years.The border between cam- segregated groups on border line places. Berlin, she is now located at the Faculty pus and neighbourhood represents not Movement areas, meeting spaces, fertile- of Spatial Planning at Dortmund Uni- only physical wall but also psychological ness walls and hubs contibute to universi- versity of Technology, Germany, in the wall. Because of social and economic dise- ty’s places. Urban Sociology Department. Her rese- quilibrium people can not connect toeach arch focuses on spatial development , other. The aim of the study was to inves- I am studying PhD in Design, Innovation and gender relations and gender planning; tigate the communication possibilities Society Programme at Ozyegin University. I am current debates in planning theory and between university students and neigh- also working as a research assistant at Istan- sociology; and planning education. She bul Kultur University. I‘m currently focusing borhood populations. Ozyegin University on urban relations between residential zones teaches courses on gender and space, located very crutial point in Istanbul which and industrial zones. I am taking part in De- planning theory and currently also is near to connection highways and urban sign Studio as an adviser and tutor at Istanbul on energy-efficient urban retrofitting peripheries. The topography and walls Kultur University, Interior Design Programme. I and its consequences for affordable got my bachelor degree in 2010 from Istanbul do not allow neighborhood populations Kultur University, Engineering and Architecture housing. She has been co-editor of the to access university easily. Also economic Faculty, Architecture Department also got my book series „Planungsrundschau“ since inequality causes city people and students master degree in 2013 from Istanbul Technical 2003. University, Science and Technology Institute, not to meet freely. What‘s more, there are Architecture Department. In 2012, I conducted hardly any places to meet in the university a research stay at Technical University Eind- campus. The first phase of the project hoven, Netherlands as an Erasmus Student. With my colleagues I took part in architectural involves mapping analyses from Istanbul design competitions. We won two first prizes scale to district scale. The second phase and two second prizes. I also took part in se- of study chooses some potential meeting veral workshops in Turkey, France and Italy as a moderator or student. The most important places in the border line. Meeting places workshop is ‚Betonart 2014‘ in Afyon Turkey, allow neighborhood populations to be where I took part as a moderator.

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09:50 Matter – Introduction (Rob Shields) 10:00 Keynote Speech (Sha XinWei) 10:40 Panel Presentations

The changing role of the public Paradoxically, in a more globalized world where communication technologies sector in spatial planning (Grazia have made interaction less dependent on bodies in a shared location, whe- Bonvissuto, Vienna University of re the ‚spaces of concern‘ lie either at planetary scales too large to grasp or Technology, Austria) nanotechnologies dissolve our faith in the solidity of matter, the materiality of bodies, trees and animals is still prominent. Concrete materiality anchors media .Benevolence (Ekaterina Timina, and political concerns as the infrastructure of care and concern. Political force appears dependent on bodies occupying public places. Yet ‚what matters‘ is only Vienna University of Technology, recognized within a context or ‚space of concern‘ in which it takes on meaning. Austria) 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 Who cares after Red Vienna? spatialisations of care and concern? Appropriating the city’s places of concern (Tihomir Viderman, Vienna Keynote: Prof. Dr. Sha XinWei, Professor and Director, School of Arts, Media and University of Technology, Austria) Engineering, Synthesis Center, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA 11:40 Discussant Feedback (Ian Banerjee) Discussant: DI Ian Banerjee, Centre of Sociology, Vienna University of Technolo- gy, Austria 12:00 General debate (Rob Shields) Contact: Prof. Dr. Rob Shields, Henry Marshall Tory Endowed Research Chair and 12:30 Lunch Break Professor of Sociology, City-Region Studies Centre, Faculty of Extension, Universi- ty of Alberta Edmonton, Canada and City of Vienna Visiting Professor 2014 (sum- 14:00 Rapporteurs’ Summary mer term) Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Vienna University of Technology, [email protected] Panel 1 Bodies (Elke Krasny) Panel 2 Place (Sabine Knierbein) Panel 3 Matter (Rob Shields) 14:30 Mobile Workshop (students)

23 Matter - Host Keynote - Matter Introduction to Panel III: Matter Textural Care and Natality: the Stuff of Publics Rob Shields Xin Wei Sha

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

Rob Shields work spans architecture, was in passive solar design which he In the ‚Nature of Order‘, architect Chris- values as predicates to processes that planning and urban geography. He studied at Carleton University‘s School topher Alexander called for a physics produce value. Under this conceptu- aims to bring an interdisciplinary and of Architecture. He founded Space and fusing matter and value à la Spinoza, al sea-change, developing a textural global perspective to research on Culture an international peer-refereed rather than matter formed only by account of care as a dynamical field urban cultures, including the built journal, and Curb Canadian planning geometry (Einstein) or number (Pytha- of intensities offers an approach to environments of cities and the virtual magazine. He was 2014 City of Vienna goras). With makers and theorists I the poetic and poietic articulation of social spaces if new media. He has a Visiting Professor in Architecture and explore the qualities of matter const- publics that is perhaps, most vitally, wide range of fieldwork experience in Planning at TUWien and is currently rued this way—as laden with value, to non-anthropocentric. the Canadian North, Europe, China and completing research on nanotechnolo- borrow Bilgrami’s phrase. I transmute Brazil. gy as a space of concern. Whitehead’s axiom of process philoso- Sha Xin Wei Ph.D. is Professor and Director of At University of Alberta‘s City-Region phy, “How an entity becomes constitu- the School of Arts, Media + Engineering in the Studies Centre in Edmonton Canada he tes what the entity is,” to move from Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + directs engaged, participatory research a concern about values of objects to Fulton Schools of Engineering. He is Director of the Synthesis Center for transversal art, philoso- and design projects that leverage pub- concerns about value-generating or phy and technology at Arizona State University, lic curiosity and art- and practice-based value-signifying processes. Classical and is also a Fellow of the ASU-Santa Fe Institu- approaches to consider the relations- theories oscillate between preconsti- te Center for Biosocial Complex Systems. Trained in differential geometry, analysis on hip between universities and commu- tuted subjects perceiving, reasoning manifolds and geometric measure theory, his nities. He is an award-winning author about, and acting on preconstituted early work was in scientific simulations and hu- and co-editor of numerous books objects. Sidestepping this, I consider man-computer systems architecture. Since his including Building Tomorrow: Innova- objects, subjects, values, and relations degrees in mathematics from Harvard and Stan- ford, Dr. Sha‘s core research concerns ethico-ae- tion in Construction and Engineering, all coconstituting each other in the sthetic improvisation, and a topological appro- Spatial Questions, The Virtual, Lifestyle ever-changing stuffs of which they are ach to ontogenesis and process philosophy. Shopping, Cultures of Internet, and made. One key feature of this account His art and scholarly work range from gestural media, movement arts, and realtime media in- Places on the Margin as well as online is plurality: there can be boundlessly stallation through interaction design to critical projects such as strip-appeal.com and many fields of potential. Another is tex- studies and philosophy of technology. spaceandculture.com tural natality—perceived as poiesis. We In 2001 Sha established the Topological Media Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology as Before being awarded the University of will see how value can arise out of the an atelier for the study of gesture and materia- Alberta‘s Henry Marshall Tory Endowed superposition of dynamic fields without lity from computational and phenomenological Research Chair in Sociology, Dr. Shields requiring us to preconstitute particular perspectives. From 2005-2013 as Canada Rese- arch Chair in media arts and sciences and Asso- was Professor of Sociology and past subjects, or follow a totalizing telos. ciate Professor of Computer Science and of Fine Director of the Institute of Interdisci- This relies on a triple conceptual shift: Arts at Concordia University in Montréal, Dr. plinary Studies at Carleton University, (1) from objects to continuous (non-di- Sha led the TML in creating responsive environ- Ottawa. A Commonwealth Scholar at screte) material fields — “stuff”, (2) ments for ethico-aesthetic improvisation. MIT Press published Dr. Sha’s Poiesis, Enchantment University of Sussex, Robs early career from objects to processes, (3) from and Topological Media in 2013.

24 25 Matter Matter The changing role of the public sector in .Benevolence spatial planning Ekaterina Timina Grazia Bonvissuto Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Arising government failures in the spatial planning system. However,until Whether you realise it or not, a city is chemistry of the urban body, to build 1970ies weakened the trust in go- now no evident reason has been inves- a living organism. It has its own laws, compassion, excuse mistakes and help vernment interventions and shifted tigated for the change. The case study, systems, processes, interactions and in need. the focus to private sector activities. hence, is restricted to the Austrian synergies. But what is our role in it? Traditionally, in Austria spatial planning system of spatial planning. The results, Being its viewer, we keep the eyes is assigned to the public sector. So far, shown in a time diagram, indicate open and gaze and hark. My name is Ekaterina Timina. In 2012 I gradua- ted from Moscow Architectural University with however, there has been little discus- especially a shift from government to Being an actor we can interfere. Build specialisation in Urban Design and decided to sion on connections between shifts in governance and an increase in public it. Change it. Interrupt it. Even destroy continue the studies in the Master Program for the public sector and changes in the participation. A growing importance it. Spatial Planning at the technical University of Vienna. While studying i always felt an urge to Austrian spatial planning system. of regional development as well as Being a part of it we feel it on an intu- imply the received knowledge and to boost my effects of Globalization can be named itive level, we get its signals directly, skills with practice - so i started working rela- Hence, at first the study seeks to as reasons. avoiding the imperfection of verbal tively early and never regretted that - despite clarify why spatial planning generally communication. totally losing free time i gained the experience in a broad variety of professional areas- from is a public task. Therefore, on the one interior to urban design, from residential archi- hand a historical overview of spatial My name is Grazia Bonvissuto and I studied Project .BENEVOLENCE is a ever-gro- tecture to public space and landscape design, spatial planning on the Vienna University of planning and public sector activities is wing photographic series that appeals ending up so far in the area of city develop- Technology. Two years ago I completed my ment. given. On the other hand a normative study with a master degree. In my master the- to this intuitive level of city perception, Throughout these years i had the honour to approach helps to analyse the reasons sis I dealt with the economic effects of biomass to the feeling of biological unity with participate in numerous projects and competi- for spatial planning. The results show cultivation. the urban body. tions. Among them was the developing of the Since my degree I am working as a project as- strategy for the future grow of Moscow, resi- that spatial planning efforts arose at a sistant on the Vienna University of Technology Started in 2012 and shot in various dential districts, reviving old industrial areas, time when public sector interventions at the Center of Public Finance and Infrastruc- places it focusses on little wrinkles and numerous parks and public spaces and many enjoyed strong demand. The normative ture Policy. At the same time I started to write birthmarks, on scars and scratches, more. The passion to architecture and cities my doctoral thesis entitled “The Role of the themselves is complimented by a long-term approach justifies spatial planning as Public Sector in Establishing Protected Areas”. bringing us back to the moments of relationship with photography. Some of the public task in every single case of mar- deep empathy to the big kind monster works got published, some exhibited, and in ket failure; especially concerning public we live in. It searches for its fears and 2009 I got an experience of being on the both goods and externalities. hopes, for its shyness and pains. sides of an exhibition - as an organiser and a participant at the same time. I believe photography helps me to develop a better feeling for The second part deals with the questi- To have a happy healthy body we need the city, its state, its mood and nature. I search on how tasks of spatial planning have total engagement and perfect mutual for the light spots on a night, for the inter- ruptions in everyday moves, for the complexity been fulfilled. The main focus lies in understanding of the whole orchestra of small things and for the unity of the masses a stakeholder analysis. Consequently, of its systems. Same for a happy city. a positive approach is used. Current We have to sharpen up the senses, to renewals of formal and informal agree- let ourself be charmed by little coin- ments show changes in the Austrian cidences, to feel the geometry and

26 27 Matter Feedback - Matter Who cares after Red Vienna? Appropriating the city’s Discussant places of concern Ian Banerjee Tihomir Viderman Centre of Sociology, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Vienna University of Technology, Austria

A parentalistic politics of institutions of seems to be closer to strategies and Ian Banerjee studied architecture in book about the growing inter-linkages Vienna’s social democratic regime has tactics of cultural production. The city’s Vienna with focus on urbanism. He between education, various forms of for almost a century been acclaimed administration concurrently develops a has been looking into urban issues for ‘urban learning’ and urbanism. He both locally and internationally for means to include (insurgent) political 15 years and for six years now he has coined the term ‚Education Urbanism’ providing comprehensive welfare to actions and their counter-spaces into developed a keen interest for ques- in 2010. the city’s residents, while successfully (institutional) politics. This contributi- tions around the future of education. adapting to globalised urbanization on explores the planning process and He wrote his Masters thesis on the patterns. The city’s institutions have political counter-actions pertaining to planning principles of Curitiba in Brazil, devotedly promoted the heritage the redevelopment of the redundant then he worked several years for the of Red Vienna, as they have tried to gas production plant, Gaswerk Leopol- Austrian Broadcasting Corporation reconcile their declared commitment to dau to scrutinize how city’s places of (ORF) and the German Satellite TV 3Sat social democratic tradition with a pur- concern have been produced and put as consultant for documentaries on suit of competitive growth strategies on the political radar. cities. During this time he conducted aiming to entice accelerated flows of research in Tokio, Kioto, Hanoi, Shang- people (talent), capital, knowledge and hai, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Kolkata, services to the city. These endeavours, Tihomir Viderman is a trained architect and Mumbai, Paris, Washington and Mexico urbanist, with an engineering degree from however, have also been criticized for University of Zagreb, and a Master’s degree City. In 2008 he joined the Centre falling short of nurturing a divergence from Bauhaus Universität Weimar, currently of Sociology (ISRA) at the Vienna of perspectives and creating an en- affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Centre for University of Technology as assistant Urban Culture and Public Space of Vienna Uni- vironment for meaningful involvement versity of Technology as a research assistant. professor. During this time, he worked of multiple urban publics. Agency of He is involved in research and teaching on the for three years on the National Spatial critical urban actors have imbued Vi- topic of public space seen as relational space Strategy for the Sultanate of Oman. enna’s space of social democracy with as well as on emerging cultural practices. His The exposure to the complexities of main research interests pertain to both cons- counter-meanings. It has sought to mo- cious and unconscious tactics and strategies of national policy making in the Arab wor- bilize collective energy in stimulating the mental production of meaning as a means ld shaped his conviction for the need use value of urban space while raising of making places and shaping urban cultures. of new forms of educational practices He is interested in the transfers of knowled- the alarm against enhancing its exchange between theory, urban activism and arti- and the strategic need for broader ge value, which institutional actors stic practices, and explores the application of forms societal learning. Based on over have allegedly paid more attention to. participatory action research in planning and 150 global references collected in the design disciplines, as paths to reinforcing the Critical urban actors draw a discursive bodily lived experience and overcoming a dis- last six years, he is currently writing a reference to political practices and phi- cursive bias in planning and design processes, losophy materialized during the sixties as well as the means of challenging professio- nals’ one-sided goal-oriented way of thinking and seventies in the West, yet their po- and acting in regard to complex social space. litical engagement in places of concern

28 29 Specials Specials

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- Change of Venue: Mobiles Stadtlabor, cialists. This collaborative approach allowed to hold a more flexible format of the Karlsplatz, U-Bahn Station Resselpark, event and add a drop of informality into the program. 1040 Vienna To give the participants and guests 18:00 Book Presentation „Public Space an opportunity to get to know each and Relational Perspectives“ other and support the exchange in the professional community a set of two Workshop 2 - Treasure Hunt Panel Debate with Dr. Sandra workshops is suggested. Vienna has lots of treasures to share! The participants are invited to Huning (TU Dortmund, Germany), hunt them in a format of a traditional Prof. Kirsten Simonsen (University Workshop 1 - Symposium Quizz “Schnitzeljagd” game. Groups receive of Roskilde, Denmark), DI Ian Trivia time! After a long day of sharing their first question after the Rappor- Banerjee (Vienna UT), and Ass. knowledge it is time it relax and have teurs’ summary and the hunt begins! Prof. Dr. Sabine Knierbein (Vienna some fun! The participants are invited The answer to the first question takes to build small teams and participate you to the second one and so on, on UT), Moderation: DI Tihomir in a Symposium Quizz. Questions and the route from the Academy to the Viderman MSc (Vienna UT) anecdotes from the area of city culture Resselpark. On the way teams not only and urbanism were specially prepared have the fun of chasing down the ques- for this occasion! The winner team get tions, but also get to know the nearby 20:00 SKuOR Soirée (Reception) special Prizes from the Organizers. locations. Start: 17 April 17:20 Start: 18 April 14:30 Time: ca. 40 minutes Time: 1 hour, depends on the team Location: Multi-Purpose Space Location: Vienna City

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

PhD Symposium 17th/18th April 2015 Vienna

Published and printed by Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space Department for Spatial Planning Faculty of Architecture and Planning Technische Universität Wien Karlsgasse 13/2 1040 Wien

Concept Elke Krasny Sabine Knierbein Rob Shields

Contributors Burcu Ates Editorial team Ian Banerjee Valentina Kofler Grazia Bonvissuto Angelika Gabauer Maria Bostenaru Dan Tihomir Viderman Angelika Gabauer Sandra Huning Revision Matilde Igual Tihomir Viderman Sabine Knierbein Valentina Kofler Layout and Design Elke Krasny Valentina Kofler Nafiseh Mousavian Dajana Rokvić Image sources Xin Wei Sha Cover: Ekaterina Timina Rob Shields Map: Google (edited) Kirsten Simonsen Ali Kemal Terlemez Contact Ekaterina Timina [email protected] Kim Trogal Tihomir Viderman Date Julia Wieger 17.04.2015

ISBN 978-3-902707-17-8