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Content All Platforms La Strada Novissima 2 – 3 CMT Riverrun 4 – 5 HTC See-ing Rotterdam 6 – 7 Master Thesis 8 – 11 ADP Definitions of an Island 12 – 13 CMT Arogenesis 14 – 15 ESC ?? 16 – 17 GLC Off-Grid 18 – 19 Learning from... 20
fig. 2 Wool workshop with Folke Köbberling 9th January 2024. Photo by Eva Sommeregger
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Students are mounting an acoustic pannel within the framework of the wool workshop with Folke Köbberling 9th January 2024. Photo by Eva Sommeregger
This Review edition assembles insights into the production, research and events that took place at the IKA during the winter term of 2023.
In the Master thesis works, an overview Economist Clive Spash shared his research on of the diverse architectural practice and public policy with an emphasis on economic thought at the IKA is given: bodily movement and environmental interactions. Karina Grömer, on the site of a pit as both a topic and means archaeologist at the Natural History Museum of investigation, presented in a lecture Vienna, introduced her research on ancient performance and large scale drawings; artistic textile tools and technology, in particular Production: The Bachelor First Year studio research in the format of a film and an essay spinning and weaving. The series concluded was looking into the notion of the street, created as an open space between two rows on Armenian architecture in Anatolia, touching with Wollbau, a lecture by artist and educator upon spatial violence, cultural cleansing and Folke Köbberling about using sheep’s wool of individual building fragments and rebuilt dispossession; personal memories stemming as a multifaceted construction material. In a as a 1:25 scale model. The third semester from fables, myths and fairy tales as integral hands-on workshop, she encouraged students CMT studio proposed interventions for the to combine wool and upcycled materials in covered section of the Vienna river, including components for the design of a house, to be explored in a film; a public underground experimental objects. Further events included a interactive installations that remain dormant world placed into one of Vienna’s so-called conversation with architect Senan Abdelqader, until activated by flood events, simulated in Urban Heat Islands, inspired by the material Ines Weizman and IKA students and the a water-carrying 1:200 scale model made of exhibition entitled Bordering Plants. Co-curated actual Viennese earth. The fifth semester HTC technologies employed by termites to generate a cooling effect on the surroundings; by Adam Hudec with Carmen Lael Hines and studio experimented with different ways of a research into the city of Vienna’s infamous Roberto Majano, the exhibition addressed the visual representation as a means of designHeldenplatz deconstructs the square’s status fields of contemporary art, critical theory and based research into the political aspects within architectural image policy in the case of as a backdrop and reveals novel perspectives architecture/design practice considering plants on it being protagonist to a political debate; as objects, typologies and taxonomies. Rotterdam. flood retention basins at Vienna’s city borders Antje Lehn and Eva Sommeregger The Master ADP studio focused on modes of re-presenting island-like structures, become the grounds for speculating on how to differently engage with suddenly occurring metaphorically alluding to social phenomena changes in the environment. in contemporary society, focusing on notions of duration and becoming. In order to investigate evolutionary processes and Research and Events: YEAH, BUT IS IT adaptability to different environments, each technology? Yes, of Course! was the title student in the MArch CMT studio developed of the lecture series, curated by Michelle a physical space, item, or construction that Howard, Adam Hudec, Veronika Miskovicova is based on the genius loci of the Kunstraum and Eva Sommeregger in collaboration with Buchberg, a castle in the Lower Austrian UMPRUM, the Academy of Arts, Architecture Kamp valley. The ESC studio focused on and Design in Prague. Its lectures looked using pivotal design questions, such as ›What into specific ways of working with lines and is it / What could it be/ [..]What for?‹ as a threads, often depreciatively termed »craft,« springboard for developing individual project to elevate and contextualize them within proposals. In the GLC studio’s students the framework of technologies. The Indonesian investigated what it could be to architecturally architecture office IBUKU presented an operate off the grid: To create concepts with impressive bamboo roof construction with different logic and propose solutions that curvatures in two opposite directions. suggest a certain disruption of orders that are Anthropologist Tim Ingold linked the themes of ruled centrally. environmental perception and skilled practice.