OFF GRID DIALOGUES
Meet contemporary designers who live, think and act off-the-grid
on Mondays at IKA, floor 2, auditorium 211a
IKA Lecture Series, summer term 2024
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Institute for Art and Architecture
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
June 3
Monday 7 p.m.
DECONSTRUCTING MODERNITY
Theo Deutinger,
The Department, Flachau/Salzburg/Amsterdam
Tom Schoonjans,
Rotor,
Brussels
A quest for a better understanding of the modern world can take many forms. Educated as architects, Theo Deutinger, the head of The Department
collective, and Tom Schoonjans, a member of ROTOR team, belong to different generations of explorers and practice seemingly incompatible methods of investigation.
And yet they do have something fundamental in common: they take apart structures - tangible as well as intangible - to critically assess them and reassemble their components into new extraordinary narratives
April 22
Monday 7
p.m.
(NO)RULES
James Taylor-Foster,
ArkDes, Stockholm
Olaf Grawert
,
bplus.xyz, Berlin
May 6
Monday 7 p.m.
COMMUNAL MATERIAL
Anupama Kundoo,
AK architects, Berlin, Pune, Pondicherry
Maria Lisogorskaya,
Assemble, London
June 3
Monday 7 p.m.
DECONSTRUCTING MODERNITY
Theo Deutinger,
The Department, Flachau/Salzburg/Amsterdam
Tom Schoonjans,
Rotor,
Brussels
A series of public discussions moderated by IKA GLC professors
Anastassia Smirnova-Berlin and
Alexander Sverdlov
bring together design practitioners from various generations and cultural
contexts who are interested in the next demarcation of their professional field.
The guests will demonstrate that architecture could be understood
very broadly – also as curatorship, heritage preservation, social design
or research – and, at the same time, will propagate the power
of architectural system thinking.
The term
grid is central to all conversations.
It serves as a metaphor for all well-established, often rigid structures
of the past – built and intangible – that can be updated, rethought or
abandoned altogether in response to the major planetary issues.
Going off grid therefore means developing concepts with an alternative
logic and proposing solutions that imply disconnection from or at least
a critique of centrally governed matrices.
Barrier-Free-Access: Room 211a is a public lecture room. It can be accessed barrier-free via the entrance Markartgasse.
An accessible toilet is located on the same floor nearby. Barrier free access to the building.
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A...kademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Institut für Kunst und Architektur
Institute for Art and Architecture
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien