Institut für Architektur (IoA) Podiumsdiskussionen
La Biennale di
Venezia 2018
On the occasion of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale
di Venezia 2018, the Institute of Architecture (IoA) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna cordially invites you to join
us for two panel discussions
Saturday, May 26, 2018 , 11 am @ Sala F, Central
Pavilion, Giardini
Paneldiscussion „Angewandte Visions“ - IoA Alumni talk about their Practice
Nora Graw (HENN), Julia Körner (JK Design), Peter Pichler (Peter Pichler
Architecture),
Sille Pihlak (PART), Viki Sandor (Hello Wood), Thomas Vietzke
(Vietzke & Borstelmann Architekten)
This year’s first panel discussion presents IoA alumni from the Studios
of Zaha Hadid (since 2015 Studio Kazuyo Sejima), Greg Lynn and Hani Rashid and will emphasize their current work and concerns
in the ever changing field of architectural theory and production.
Saturday, May
26, 2018 , 3.30 pm @ Sala F, Central Pavilion, Giardini
Paneldiscussion „Non-Ordinary Reality - Beyond the Virtual“
Welcome Address: Gerald Bast, President University of Applied Arts Vienna
Kutan
Ayata, Architect Young & Ayata, New York; Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Brian
Boigon, Design Theorist, Artist, Writer and Researcher, University of Toronto
Barbara Imhof,
Space Architect, Design Researcher, LIQUIFER Systems Group, Vienna
Agnieszka Kurant, Artist, New York
Sanford Kwinter, Writer, Architectural Theorist, Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Andrew Witt, Assistant Professor in Practice in Architecture at the GSD, co-founder of Certain Measures,
Boston, Berlin
In the late '80s and early ‘90s, as the prospects of ‘virtual reality’ surged to the
fore in all its confused and often ecstatic perplexity, a phrase came to prominence as a way to explain what visionaries and
engineers were seeking to bring into the world to a lay public that had little else than the psychedelic culture of the 1960s
through which to understand it (and certainly not a ‘technological’ model):
“Virtual Reality is where you are when
you are talking on the telephone.”
Today the diffusion and migration of synthetic and modified ‘realities’ outside the
typical modes and places where a single reality is habitually sought and found, has become an almost routine practice.
The ecology of our psychic and perceptual universe is arguable severely altered, and often disturbed by it. And yet, this
does not mean it is all bad. . . for novel opportunities to escape age-old platitudes of thought and sensation arguably present
to the design and activist imagination.
Technologically-mediated realities represent but one of the channels through
which the concept of a stable and knowable reality is being reconceived today. Indeed the human senses are undergoing a thorough
re-examination and re-construction which has begun to impact many of the assumptions that design has traditionally brought
to the world and to the objects of its attention. The fluid assembly of workable images of the world by our nervous systems
corresponds to the endlessly transforming and labile universe outside us in which life is played out as an endlessly improvisatory
dance. The boundaries and divisions between time and space no longer apply. The desire to limit and to fix simply has no place
in our emerging world. Or does it?
Both panels are moderated by: Florian Medicus, Architect,
Assistant Professor, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Accompanied by films about
the Institute of Architecture
All day presentation of IoA publications.