URBAN KNIGHTS

Venue: Das Packhaus, Marxergasse 24, 1030 Wien
Registration: <link http: bit.ly _blank>bit.ly/1mlFxNv
Admission free

Speakers include: Teresa Dillon [IRL/DE], Paradocks [AT], Hans Bernhard, UBERMORGEN [AT] and Theresa Schutz [AT]  
 
Urban Knights is a programme of events, which provokes and promotes practical approaches to urban change. The programme brings together people who are actively creating alternatives, which reflect or produce disruptions to our given city infrastructures, norms and perceptions.  
This first edition in Vienna will focus on new urban governance, commons, collective well-being and shared civic resources. 

Biographies:  

<link http: www.quartier21.at en artists-in-residence artists artistinfo _blank>Teresa Dillon [IRL/DE]
Urban Knights curator Teresa Dillon will provide an overview of the programmes development to date with a focus on projects, which relate to the urban commons and collective civic governance.

Paradocks [AT]
Venue hosts and partners for Urban Knights, Vienna, Paradocks will provide a summary of their building experiment and co-working space, 'Das Packhaus'.

Hans Bernhard [AT] 
Rethinking our approach to governance, co-founder of the internationally renowned artist group UBERMORGEN discusses radical-self experiments, including media and legal hacks as strategies for rethinking how we organise our techno-civic lives.

Theresa Schutz [AT] 
Architect, co-founder of the urban arts collective 'Gehsteig-Guerrilleros' and member of the CIT Collective illustrates how the collective have been lobbying to turn Vienna's 'Gaswork Leopoldau' into an open and democratically run area for cultural development and production. 

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Urban Knights is curated by Teresa Dillon. Urban Knights Vienna was made possible through the Artist-in-Residence programme quartier21, Vienna with Artistic Bokeh and a partnership with Paradocks, Vienna.

Further details: 
<link http: www.urbanknights.org>www.urbanknights.org  
<link http: www.polarproduce.org>www.polarproduce.org 
<link http: www.artisticbokeh.com>www.artisticbokeh.com
<link http: www.paradocks.at>www.paradocks.at <link http: www.paradocks.at>