Lecture Series CONTESTING SPACE II

The lectures will take place every Tuesday at 18:00 at the Faculty of Architecture VUT in Brno in room A310.

The lecture series will present architecture and urban creation as an inherently political process and the architect/urbanist as an actor who cannot claim neutrality in relation to power. After modernism lost its significance as a social project, early postmodernism emerged with its diversity and independence, leading to social ambiguity. Today, we have again reached a time in which architects are renewing their professional interest in architecture and urbanism as purposeful social practice.

PROGRAM:
                
12.10. 2013 MICHAEL KLEIN
(Vienna) / http://www.scibe.eu
Lecture: Between Need and Desire: The Creation of the Minimum
 
17.12. 2013 PETER TRUMMER
(Innsbruck) / http://www.ioud.org
 
07.01. 2014 ELKE KRASNY
(Vienna) / http://www.elkekrasny.at
                              
14.01. 2014 JENS DANGSCHAT
(Vienna) http://isra.tuwien.ac.at

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MICHAEL KLEIN (Vienna)
Michael Klein is an architect and researcher based in Austria, Vienna. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna and at the Ecole Speciale d'architecture in Paris. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2007. He has worked in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, education, and research, most recently in the SCIBE research project funded by European Structural Funds. His research focuses on political thinking, theory, and practice, and how they influence architecture and the urban environment.

PETER TRUMMER (Innsbruck)
Peter Trummer is a professor of urban design and head of the Institute for Urban Design and Planning at the University of Innsbruck. From 2004 to 2010, he was the head of the Associative Design program at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. As a visiting professor, he has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Sci-Arc in Los Angeles, and the Technical University of Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
He has lectured and been invited as a critic at the AA in London, the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, IAAC in Barcelona, the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, Sci-Arc in LA, the University of Pennsylvania, and Rice University in Houston.
He has published in prestigious periodicals such as AD Reader, AD Digital Cities, and Arch+. Currently, he is thematically focused on biopolitics and population thinking in architecture and planning.
 
ELKE KRASNY (Vienna)
Elke Krasny teaches and is an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 2013, she was a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg in the Master's program for Architecture and Urban Studies. In 2012, she was a visiting teacher at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. In 2006, she was a visiting professor at the University of Bremen in Germany.
In 2011, she was a residential curator in Hong Kong as part of the Hong Kong Community Museum Project, and in 2012 she was a resident artist at the Audain Gallery at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
She is the editor and author of several books on architecture and urbanism, as well as feminist historiography. Her texts have been widely published in edited collections, exhibition catalogs, and periodicals. Exhibitions under her curatorial patronage include The Force is in the Mind. The Making of Architecture at the Vienna Center for Architecture (Architekturzentrum Wien), Penser tout Haut. Faire l'Architecture at the Centre de Design de l'UQAM in Montreal and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and exhibitions Hong Kong City Telling and Mapping the Everyday: Neighborhood Claims for the Future at the Audain Gallery in Vancouver.
In 2012, her exhibition Hands-on Urbanism 1850-2012. The Right to Green was presented at the Vienna Center for Architecture and subsequently, at the invitation of David Chipperfield, at the Central Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2012.
 
JENS DANGSCHAT (Vienna)
Jens Dangschat is a professor of sociology and urban sociology and head of the Institute of Sociology, Architecture, and Planning at the Technical University of Vienna. His research focuses on social inequality and segregation, participation and communal governance, theories of space, planning, and sustainable regional development. He is the author and co-author of several books, articles, and texts in edited collections concerning topics such as gentrification, urban poverty, lifestyle, and social exclusion. He has been a member of several advisory bodies in the field of research and urban planning, including as the head of the Urban Research section of the Austrian Sociological Association (ÖGS), a member of the executive board of the European Urban Research Association (EURA), a member of the evaluation committee for social in/exclusion for the German and Swiss Ministries of Science and Research, and an advisor at the Technical University of Munich in the establishment of a research cluster for "Research on the Environment."