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.
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