Paul Rrajakovics - Guest Lecture
Social Spaces between Direct Urbanism and Architecture
A major aspect of transparadiso’s longterm transdisciplinary practice is the method of direct urbanism.In projects like „NORMAL“ (Graz Culture Year 2020/2021) or „Request for the unrequested voluntary interlinguisticality“ (Pottenhofen, Lower Austria, 2016), Paul Rajakovics will show how the practice of direct urbanism engages in furthering a socially committed urban planning and urban development, and which artistic-urbanistic tools transparadiso has been developing for a durational process as part of a longer term urban planning strategy. Referring to the Situationsts and Henri Lefebvre transparadiso considers architecture in its complex responsibility for society for which transparadiso creates situations for participation and active engagement often transgressing the usual field of architecture. Projects like „Bienvenue Quarter“, a social housing project in Vienna, show the engagement in social/ cultural programming and the emphasis on creating urban public space free of consumption, like in the cooperative housing project „At the City Balcony“ in the new urban development area behind Vienna’s new Main Train Station.
international festival
KUM students Viktoria Maďarová and Šimon Talajka are participating in the international meeting of performance artists "Tomorrow Begins Today" in Poland.
Toshikatsu Kiuchi
We cordially invite you to a lecture by Toshikatsu Kiuchi, architect and co-founder of SUNAKI studio, who, together with his team, designed the Japanese Pavilion at the current Venice Biennale.
WHEN: September 25, 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: Technical University of Liberec, Building G, 3rd floor, lecture hall G312
The lecture will be in English.