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

April 22

Monday 7 p.m.

(NO)RULES

James Taylor-Fosterhttps://james.tf, ArkDeshttps://arkdes.se/en/, Stockholm

Olaf Grawert https://olafgrawert.net , bplus.xyzhttp://bplus.xyz, Berlin

Today, designers of all sorts live in a world of rules and regulations: from strict building and environmental codes to protocols of institutional conduct.

How to navigate these powerful prescriptive systems and still be able to realise break through designs?

Next Monday at IKA, James Taylor-Foster and Olaf Grawert - curators, writers, architects, and agents of change - will talk about the tactics and strategies of career-long rebellion.

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May 6

Monday 7 p.m.

COMMUNAL MATERIAL

Anupama Kundoohttps://www.nbl.berlin/persons/anupama-kundoo/, AK architectshttps://anupamakundoo.com, Berlin, Pune, Pondicherry

Maria Lisogorskayahttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/dec/08/assemble-turner-prize-architects-are-we-artists, Assemblehttps://assemblestudio.co.uk, London

June 3

Monday 7 p.m.

DECONSTRUCTING MODERNITY

Theo Deutingerhttps://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/theo-deutinger, The Departmenthttps://the-department.eu/projects/img, Flachau/Salzburg/Amsterdam

Tom Schoonjans, Rotor,https://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2021/06/23/interview-with-rotor-the-belgian-studio-that-builds-with-recycled-materials.html 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.

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