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fig. 1 Felicity D. Scott in conversation with Aristide Antonas after her lecture New New Worlds on 25 April 2022 in the framework of Theories of Urgency. Photo: Marcella Brunner fig. 2 Paula Strunden, Infra-thin Magick, Extended Reality Installation, 2022, Exhibit Gallery. Photo: Maria Belova (Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant 860413)
Content ADP More Notes on House, Kitchen, Brain, Body and Gastroesophageal Vestibule 2 – 3 ESC Urban Scotoecologies II 4 – 5 GLC City of Beds 6 – 7 Master Thesis 8 – 9 ADP taking the waters 10 – 11 CMT Building Resilience – Learning Resilience 12 – 13 HTC Housing 14 – 15 Bed Manifesto 16
fig. 3 Algae on medium format slide, projected during Spheres and Cones, Plants as Practitioners, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse. Photo: Christina Jauernik/Unstable Bodies (FWF PEEK AR574)
This Editorial gives an overview of the production, research and events at the IKA during the summer term of 2022. Production: Navigating through metabolic exchanges, from kitchen and stomach, in the darkness of daylight, in a city of beds, in and (out) of water, to being cut off from supply chains, and asking about modes of living together. In the framework of six studio projects, students speculated about conceptions of living and dwelling, with more than one body, estranged, in overheated urban spheres, as forms of cohabitation with other species and societies and their circadian rhythms, lunar cycles and tides, learning resilience. The thematic emphases of the studio productions were complemented by thesis works addressing the spatial (dis-)comfort of a habitat, domestic (queer) spaces, a futuristic version of Alice in Wonderland, and courtyard spaces as filtering mechanisms for extreme climates. Research: The IKA Lecture Series Communities of Tacit Knowledge (TACK) curated by Angelika Schnell as part of the research project Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing presented three talks and experts’ conversations about forms of architectural knowledge that we learn and apply implicitly. In the extended reality setup Infra-thin Magick, Paula Strunden (a PhD candidate in the TACK project) invited visitors to playfully participate in ritualistic practices engaging with physical objects that perform as mediators between haptic and visual, as well as physical and virtual space. The installation, which raised fundamental and urgent questions of how to live and act
on a devastated planet, was embedded in the group exhibition Speculative Fiction at the Exhibit Gallery. Spheres and Cones. Plants as Practitioners amplified concerns about interspecies collaboration and counteraction. In a temporary installation setup of the artistic research project Unstable Bodies, plants combined with microscopic instruments, cooling systems, pumping circuits and projectors formed part of a series of processual experimental setups. The research team experimented with methods of translation and spaces of experience while engaging with pea plants and algae. Embedded in this framework were a walk and talk session and the presentation of the research publication INTRA! INTRA! Towards an INTRASPACE. The short film program Plants over Time curated by Christina Jauernik and Johann Lurf showed films that take a microscopic look at the temporality of plants, and open up unusual, condensed, enlarged and humorous perspectives on their essence, technologies, forms of sensation and movement. The cross-border collaboration between the IKA and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Prague was dedicated to the exploration of Ignored Technologies, with participants of the one-week summer school visiting venues in Prague and Vienna. Events: The first lecture was dedicated to conservation architect Carl Pruscha and his contribution to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. As former rector and professor emeritus, he presented a book on his projects, travels and societal engagement. The question of where to live was discussed
in the framework of the project Theories of Urgency. In her talk entitled Worlds, architecture theorist Felicity D. Scott presented critical reflections on artificial space colonies and habitats explored by NASA in the 1970s, represented in paintings by the artist Don Davis. In his lecture Dirty Work, architect Michael Hirschbichler focused on accumulated pasts and aborted futures, handling leftovers, fragments and debris, and grappling with ideologies and lives, facts and ghosts. Guest professor David Lieberman used two special spaces of the Academy to present insights into his artistic production. A three-hour video installation was displayed in the Aula. The Anatomiesaal, the theatre of the historic dissecting room provided the setting for a performative intervention entitled . With the aura of a space created for dissecting bodies still present, the lecture cut through references from music, dance and architecture to point to the importance of performativity and temporality for the discipline. The diverse activities featured in this issue give an insight how a culture of critical debate and vibrant exchange with students, faculty and an interested public at the IKA reflects the complex and pressing issues of our times. Christina Jauernik and Antje Lehn