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Exploring Urban Present(S) Urban Culture, Public Space and the Present: Urban Solidarity and European Crisis EXPLORING URBAN PRESENT(S) Annual Reader 2016 - Booklet I Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space Faculty of Architecture and Planning, TU Wien Vienna University of Technology Department of Spatial Planning Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space IMPRINT PUBLISHER Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space Department for Spatial Planning Faculty of Architecture and Planning Technische Universität Wien Karlsgasse 13/2 A - 1040 Wien http://skuor.tuwien,ac,at [email protected] EDITORS Sybille Frank Sabine Knierbein Elina Kränzle CONTRIBUTORS Balázs Cserpes Sonja List Agnes Daniel Michael Masching Sybille Frank Lina Moßhammer Nicole Hauder Triin Liis Palm Andreas Höbausz Benjamin Peneder Yuquing Hu Clara Rosa Rindler-Schantl Maximilian Jäger Klara Seltenhammer Sabine Knierbein Vanessa Sodl Elina Kränzle Moritz Starzer Marvin Linke LANGUAGE EDITING Tihomir Viderman DESIGN Elina Kränzle Vienna, Austria, September 2016 ISBN 978-3-902707-28-4 COVER IMAGE Donaukanal, Vienna. Elina Kränzle (2016) PREFACE PREFACE Ass. Prof. Dr. phil. Sabine Knierbein, Vienna Visiting Professor Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank, Elina Kränzle MSc The European City has up to now only rarely theory (both within urban studies) to offer multiple been characterized as a city of crisis. However, entry points into understanding the city both as a against the backdrop of current political shifts that medium and a solution for the crisis, but also as its challenge the European project of urban solidarity main sphere where an understanding of crisis, and and tear the ideal of democracy there is an urgent its multiple creative and destructive situations, is need to reflect on the general and current status generated. of crises in urban life and society. Therefore the With this reader we want to share the summarized Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and theoretical inputs from the summer term’s lectures Public Space (http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at) Wien – as well as give an insight into the students’ work in collaboration with the City of Vienna Visiting in both seminar and exercise where those inputs Professorship of the same name – dedicated the were reflected upon and turned into empirical academic year of 2016 to a critical approach to the projects. The contributors to this volume are the European City. Under the annual theme of 2016 City of Vienna Visiting Professor 2016, Prof. Dr. “Urban Culture, Public Space and the Present – Sybille Frank, the Head of the Interdisciplinary Urban Solidarity and European Crisis” the Centre Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Ass. offered integrated lectures, a seminar as well as Prof. Dr. Sabine Knierbein, as well as Elina Kränzle a practical exercise at the intersection of urban MSc from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban sociology, urban studies, political science, planning Culture and Public Space. We would like to thank theory and urban design aimed at interdisciplinary Cansu and Mucella Yapici, both scholarly activists, and international master students as part of the who held a guest lecture on urban transformation curriculum of Spatial Planning at the Faculty of in Istanbul and shared their experiences of the Gezi Architecture and Planning at TU Wien. Park movements, bringing in first-hand experiences Both as normative project and as conceptual of urban crises in Europe. framework, urban theoretical accounts as regards While we are writing new (urban) crises emerge: the European City have been shaken by diverse The political situation in Turkey is getting more crises of knowledge, politics, culture, economy alarming by the hour and our thoughts are with and society. Scholars have developed new models, all colleagues who are directly involved in or which try to answer some of those challenges with a affected by political struggles connected to the view to economic activity, local government, cultural emerging regime. Public spaces in other European policy, urban planning, everyday life or scientific Cities witness acts of rightwing extremism and reasoning about the city: throughout the lecture agitation through spatial conquistas of another series “The European City: A Conceptual Framework kind, and international translocal identities gain in Crisis” concepts of the Entrepreneurial City, the new meanings in shared urban societies, as the Culturalised City, the Global City, the Postcolonial protracted refugee and migration crisis unfolds. City or the Rebel City have been introduced in Finally, we would like to say merci our motivated the past summer term and critically discussed in group of students in the summer term’s module relation to urban solidarity and their relevance for for their vivid participation in the courses and urban practice and planning. These lecture inputs their creative and passionate projects. We have been combined with lecture units from critical would like to thank the City of Vienna as well as urban theory and planning theory regarding Post- the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at TU Positivist Planning Theories: Performative Planning, Wien and the Department of Spatial Planning. Insurgent Planning, Relational Planning, Counter We highly appreciate their continuous material Planning and Agonistic Planning. and institutional support through which the How do these concepts and urban scholars address Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public urban cultures and public spaces in their overall Space has come into being since 2008, and has conceptions of the urban, urbanization processes grown internationally since. The intensive teaching and the city, and which roles and meanings are and learning within and beyond academia would attributed to public life and everyday cultural not have been possible without them. expression in these writings? The lecture combined two perspectives from urban and cultural sociology and from public space research and urban cultural 1 CONTENTS BOOKLET I SUMMER TERM 2016 Exploring Urban Present(s) LECTURES Lecture Outline. The European City. A Conceptual Framework in Crisis 4 Sabine Knierbein, Sybille Frank The European City. A Normative Concept and its Present Challenges 6 Sybille Frank Public Space under Siege. Urban Restructuring and the ‘European City’ 7 Sabine Knierbein Heritage Crisis. Negotiating the German Colonial Past in Berlin’s African Quarter 8 Sybille Frank Political Crisis. The Entrepreneurial City 9 Sybille Frank The Body under Pressure. The Political and Politics of Affect(s) 10 Sabine Knierbein Cultural Crisis. The Culturalised City 11 Sybille Frank Contested Everyday Space. Non-social Movements and Insurgent Planning 12 Sabine Knierbein Lived Space Dialectics. Combined Activism and Relational Counter Space 13 Sabine Knierbein Economic Crisis. The Global City 14 Sybille Frank City Unsilenced. Urban Resistance Against Increasing Social Inequality 15 Sabine Knierbein Social Crisis. The Right to the City 17 Sybille Frank Public Space Unbound. Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political City 18 Sabine Knierbein Bibliography 20 2 CONTENTS SEMINAR ESSAYS From Public to Private. The European City in Crisis? 23 Nicole Hauder From Communicative to Performative to...? 29 Michael Masching The Global City and its Intensifying Effect on Urban Social Inequality 35 Triin Liis Palm The (Small-Scale) Political in a Globalised Context. Taking a Look at the Danube Canal 40 Clara Rosa Rindler-Schantl From Heritage to the Everyday Life of the Present 44 Klara Seltenhammer STUDENT PROJECTS Exploring Urban Lifeworlds. Introduction to the Exercise 51 Elina Kränzle The Power of Bodies and Gender 52 Michael Maschnig, Vanessa Sodl Social Interactions. Detecting and Observing Meeting Points 53 Sonja List, Klara Maria Seltenhammer Tramline 49 54 Balász Cserpes, Benjamin Peneder Roofless but not Homeless. The Importance of Home 55 Agnes Daniel, Andreas Höbausz Let‘s Talk with the People! Project Schwedenplatz 56 Yuquing Hu, Lina Moßhammer Street Politics. Artistic and Vandalising Modifications of Election Posters 57 Maximilian Jäger, Moritz Starzer Youth in Döbling. Living in Vienna‘s 19th District 58 Marvin Linke, Clara Rosa Rindler-Schantl 3 LECTURE LECTURE OUTLINE THE EUROPEAN CITY. A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK IN CRISIS Ass. Prof. Dr. phil. Sabine Knierbein, Vienna Visiting Professor Dr. Sybille Frank The lecture units offered by Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank the annual theme of the City of Vienna Visiting started with an introduction to the concept of the Professor Programme in 2016, and to differentiate European City as it was prominently developed by and investigate various crisis phenomena on the German sociologist Walter Siebel. Siebel defined spatial level of the (European) city. In this process, five characteristics of the European City that were each characteristic was identified with a specific each put under scrutiny in one of the following field of crisis. As a result, a heritage, political, lecture units. At the same time the characteristics cultural, economic and social crisis were identified were used as a starting point to delve deeper into and critically assessed. diagnoses of a European crisis, that have been Theme Fields Examples The European City: A Normative Concept and its Present Challenges Introduction to The five characteristics Historic development, the European The European City as the concept of the of the European City City as a normative concept, current a city for male European City defined by Siebel
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