IN-PERSON: Learning. Life. Work
Abstract
The “Arbeitsraum Bildung” research team at the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning at TU Wien is developing novel educational spaces at the interface between education, art, architecture and society. Spaces for thought, action and design currently lacking in existing (educational) structures are developed, implemented as models and tested with users. The artistic spatial research project BiB-Lab / Innovation Lab for Learning Landscapes in Motion (1) installed three different spatial lab settings in Vienna’s largest municipal housing estate since 2021. The Bus-Lab, a mobile multifunctional studio space in a converted public-transit bus, is temporarily stationed in public spaces offering extracurricular creative programs for young people. The School Space-Lab comprises several neighboring schools whose spatial facilities no longer meet current requirements of hybrid teaching and learning. In participatory processes, the BiB-Lab team develops spatial test settings and cost-effective spatial interventions together with architecture students and the school community. Vacant shops in a shopping centre were activated in the Neighbourhood-Lab as open educational spaces where the university and the community learn from each other. As part of the FFG program “Young Talents for the Energy Transition”, two co-creative innovation labs on climate protection and climate change adaptation are currently being developed, building on the experience of the Bib-Lab. HOPE Space Lab # Educational landscapes in a changing climate (2) is a mobile, modular space laboratory for artistic initiatives and experiments, where educational institutions and the surrounding city become the “material suitcase” with which to work. In the co-creation space Transformer (3), a vacant building is the basis for a practical educational prototype for climate transformation.
Carla Schwaderer – Social space-oriented architect with a master degree in architecture from the TU Vienna and a master’s degree in social space-oriented social work. Part of “BiB Lab – Laboratory for Educational Spaces in Motion” and PraeDoc at the Institute for Building Theory and Design at the Vienna University of Technology. She deals with the spatial perception, needs of minorities in the context of participatory design and gender-related empowerment processes. Her current research focuses on the appropriation of space by children and young people with a focus on gender, as well as feminist urban planning.
Dr. Karin Harather: Social space-oriented architect with a master degree in architecture from the TU Vienna and a master’s degree in social space-oriented social work. Part of “BiB Lab – Laboratory for Educational Spaces in Motion” and PraeDoc at the Institute for Building Theory and Design at the Vienna University of Technology. She deals with the spatial perception, needs of minorities in the context of participatory design and gender-related empowerment processes. Her current research focuses on the appropriation of space by children and young people with a focus on gender, as well as feminist urban planning;
Christian Kühn: Studied at the Vienna University of Technology and at the ETH Zurich (Dr. sc. techn.). Teaches at the TU Vienna since 1989, habilitation in building theory, professor at the TU Vienna since 2001. Member of the OECD working group for educational construction 2005 – 2011, Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning since 2008. Architecture and Spatial Planning since 2008. Commissioner for the Austrian contribution to the Architecture Biennale in Venice 2014. Chairman of the Advisory Board for Building Culture at the Austrian Federal Chancellery since 2015;
Renate Stuefer: Doctor of architecture, architecture teacher and mother of seven children, teaches at the Institute of Art and Design 1. Main focus: Development of environments and building materials for active, self-determined, kinaesthetic learning processes and the expansion of sensorimotor skills through play with and movement in space; social sensitization to spatial issues through spatial design open to definition, participatory action research (including the socio-spatial teaching and research project Displaced).
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Tuesday 11th June, 2024