Content All Platforms bodyspacemotionthings 2 – 3 CMT TANKED 4 – 5 HTC museum of FORM a museum, or: every day (in) (a) museum 6 – 7 Master Thesis 8 – 10 Research 11 ADP FOREST and GARDEN 12 – 13 GLC Epistemology of Exoticism 14 – 15 Manifesto 16
Lecture Series Winter 2022
Institute for Art and Architecture Institut für Kunst und Architektur
A...kademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Institute for Art and Architecture Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna www.akbild.ac.at/ika Editor: Christina Jauernik Translation & Proof reading: Judith Wolfframm Graphic design: Beton
This Editorial gives an overview of the production, research and events at the IKA during the winter term of 2022.
IKA students at Climate Action October, court yard workshop Schillerplatz. Photo: Antje Lehn
Lecture Series Winter 2022
GLC
Momoyo Kaijima, who presented Architectural Behaviorology, an ethnographic design theory and method searching for forgotten values of local resources and their potential for community building. Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Territorial Agency, spoke about Climate Peace and the need to jointly rethink cohabitation in a world facing climate chaos. Other guests at IKA during the semester included Christoph Schnoor, lecturing on the work of Ernst A. Plischke (1903–1992): A Modernist Architect between Two Worlds; Heidulf Gerngross, Benjamin Hossbach and Benjamin Steininger. An evening at Haus Schminke was dedicated to the work of Hans Scharoun (1893–1972) under the title Building and Shaping Friendships and Communities, with Waltraud P. Indrist and Angelika Schnell. The artistic research project Unstable Bodies together with Plant Media held a panel entitled Plantelligence at the conference Reading Minds. Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and the Reading Human of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts at Purdue University followed by a workshop and screening at University of Chicago. IKA contributed to the Climate Action October initiative of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, by moving the workshops outside to the courtyard and the street. The experience to bring processes of recycling, rebuilding, and rediscovering of discarded materials, models, leftovers, to the public space opened up for experiments with forms of appropriation of space, tools and resources. This issue contributes to critical debates within the field of architecture, in conversation with other disciplines and the public. Christina Jauernik and Antje Lehn
Geography Landscapes Cities
Production: Five studio projects offered a variety of topics from interpreting public spaces as playgrounds, to rethinking our dependencies on oil, from developing conceptual projections for museums, to constructing infrastructures for a deserted island or representing a mythical view on forests. Students explored modes of play as shared spatial production, experimented with narratives of reuse and recycling across different materials and scales, rewrote competition briefs, found pieces of stories in abandoned gardens and practiced fictious rituals in trees. A selection of thesis works show different aspects of architectural production: how a meteorological perspective could transform overheated urban spaces into gardens full of air, how the articulation of architectural and physical modes of disabilities has an impact on social-political conditions, how tracing the natural histories of a bog can lead to new understanding of the ecology of this landscape, how tracing domestic care work in a post-communist city makes relations of gender and space visible, and how the role of the street vendors and ghosts in Thai communities relate to temporary figurations of social gatherings. Research and Events: The IKA Lecture Series Ruptured Landscapes curated by Aristide Antonas opened with an installation of screens set-up in the darkened space of the Aula. The Invisible Symposium represented the recorded voices of: Antonia Alampi, Athena Athanasiou, Clementine Deliss, Keller Easterling, Mona Mahall, Felicity Scott, Malkit Shoshan in conversation with IKA students. The series continued with
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fig. 2 Invisible Symposium, Ruptured Landscapes IKA Lecture Series curated by Aristide Antonas, installation of recorded voices at Aula Schillerplatz. Photo: Antje Lehn