Other Markets

Other Markets
Symposium and Panel Discussion (in English)

Date: Sat, 0ct 31, 2 pm until 8 pm
Venue: Az W, Podium
Admission free!

New prototypes for extreme spatial configurations have emerged from informal structures in the wake of the economic deregulation and exploding mobility. Rapidly spreading informal markets on the peripheries in Europe, for instance, form urban nodes for the networks of global migration. Are these architectures of informal exchange the forced low-cost counterpart for the success of the global capital market, or is their creativity showing the way to more sustainable ecologies? The symposium on the FWF research project \'Relational Architecture\' addresses critical questions on the participation of architecture in this reconstruction of our political and economic environment, from the local scale of neighbourhoods to the dimensions of civil society in transnational regions.

2 pm
Welcome Address and Introductory Speech
Peter Mörtenböck (AUT) (Professor of Visual Culture, Vienna University of Technology)

2.30 pm
Lecture \'Relational Architecture\'
Helge Mooshammer (AUT) (FWF Project Manager, Vienna University of Technology)

3.30 pm
Lecture \'Catalysts of Change in Cities of Transition\'
Marjetica Potrc (SLO) (Artist and Architect)

4.30 pm
Break

5 pm
Lecture \'Radicalizing the Local: Post-Bubble Urban Strategies\'
Teddy Cruz (USA) (Architect and Professor of Public Culture & Urbanism, UC San Diego)

6 pm
Lecture \'Regional Imaginings - A Political Practice?\'
Irit Rogoff (GBR) (Professor of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London)

7 pm
Panel Discussion

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