ANDREAS RUMPFHUBER @ MARX & AESTHETICS CONFERENCE

AR delivers a talk about the "contemporary housing question" at the Marx and the Aesthetics Conference in Amsterdam, 10-13 May. You find more information HERE

THEORIESALON#12
FELICITY SCOTT - VOLUNTARY PRIMITIVISM

19.00, Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Wien

This talk will address Open Land communes in Northern California during the late 1960s, focusing on the escalating “code wars” that their attempts to abandon private property rights, normative forms of life, and other trappings of modernity and capitalism elicited from the State. What, it asks, might have motivated this portion of the American back-to-the-land movement to open their land to anyone who wished to settle? Why did they adopt practices of “voluntary primitivism” in the name of an ethics of care, both of the self and of the earth? And why did the State react so violently against them?

THEORIESALON #9 JOHAN FREDERIK HARTLE: DAS ROTE WIEN UND DIE POLITIK DER SICHTBARKEIT

19.00, Depot Wien, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Wien

Es gehört zu den Paradoxien des „Proletariats“ sich im Prozess seiner Realisierung selbst aufzuheben. Seine bloße Integration in das Feld visueller und politischer Repräsentation ist das Schlu?sselmerkmal reformistischer Politik.

Der Vortrag erörtert die städtebaulichen und architektonischen Maßnahmen des Wiener Kommunalsozialismus sowie visuelle Strategien von Otto Neuraths ISOTYPE. Dieses historische Material stellt beispielhaft die Frage nach einer radikalen Politik der Sichtbarkeit zwischen Manifestierung von Gegenmacht und dem Vorverweis auf Abwesendes.

THEORIESALON #10 SUSAN SCHUPPLI: IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DESIGNS.

19.00, Depot Wien, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Wien

To coincide with a September 2009 forum on Canada’s military role in Afghanistan the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC announced plans to stage a series of Taliban-led attacks on a mock Afghan village to be erected in the embassy compound. While this proposed PR campaign was unique in terms of its stated function to engender greater respect for the efforts of Canadian Forces in Afghanistan, the building and destruction of ersatz architectural sets for playing out the theatres of war is not. The utilisation of cinematic modes of production, specifically the design and creation of  provisional architectures (better known as film-sets), has been inextricably linked to the operations of tactical-training and warfare from WWII onwards.

THEORIESALON #9 & 11 POSTPONED

Theoriesalon #9 with Johan Frederik Hartle has been postponed to 4.5.2012. Theoriesalon #11 with Christian Teckert has been postponed to 11.10.2012

ANDREAS RUMPFHUBER: "PARTICIPATING PERFORMATIVELY: THE OFFICE LANDSCAPE, OR, TOWARDS A SOCIETY OF SELF - ORGANIZATION"

Symposium
Whose Participation? Spaces of Interaction in Contemporary Art and Architecture
16-17 December 2011
Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich

I will be discussing participation from an angle of labour discourse, arguing that participation has never been a grass?roots emancipatory practice, but a problematic practice of activating the working subject. Thus I examine participation as an immanent part of a post-­fordist process of subjectivation – as an original tool and practice of governmentality.

THEORIESALON #8
ARISTIDE ANTONAS: POPULATION OF FRAGMENTS

19.00, Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna

Contemporary research on materiality in the contemporary world investigates collections of given, unimportant matter. Some idiosyncratic operations enable different architectures formed through the sole assemblage of insignificant material. Such assemblages propose different structures in different conditions; they might make sense as site-specific strategies. Remodeling and reordering insignificant elements build propositions or form utterances by orchestrating fragments. Architecture would then be defined as an alternative curatorial rationale.

with Aristide Antonas, Athens

Moderation: Andreas Rumpfhuber

ANDREAS RUMPFHUBER: "KOLLEKTIV STADT BAUEN – EIN PLÄDOYER FÜR WOHNGRUPPEN"

Arch+ Feature 8
21er Haus, Vienna
18.30

The lecture takes up the event's imperative to "collectively building on the city" and asks how co-housing groups could become a truly reformistic practice within the Vienna practice of social housing.

FRAMING THE POSSIBLE (ARCHITECTURE OF IMMATERIAL LABOUR)

Andreas Rumpfhuber's contribution to the Anti-Neo-Liberalism Conference at the TU Graz will be discussing the spatial neo-liberalism of cybernetics, its architectural application and the emancipatory hope: From the invention of Bürolandschaft (1959/60) to the affirmative performance »Mobile Office« (1969).

THEORIESALON #7 ÁKOS MORAVÁNSZKY: ARCHITEKTUR-
EXPERIMENTE UND DER ERFOLG DES SCHEITERNS 

19.00, Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna

Wir leben in Ruinen von gescheiterten Architektur-Experimenten, und die Abwesenheit des einstigen Sinnes der experimentellen Anordnungen lässt uns diese ästhetisch erscheinen. Gleichzeitig werden nicht zur Realisierung bestimmte Projekte auch als architektonische Experimente bezeichnet, weil ihre Entwerfer das Scheitern im Sinne des Verzichts auf Realisierung, als eine kritische Stellungnahme verstehen. Ákos Moravánszky fragt im Theoriesalon, ob Architektur-Experimente überhaupt scheitern können.   mit Prof. Ákos Moravánszky, Institut gta der ETH Zürich Moderation: Andreas Rumpfhuber

PUBLIC HOUSING AS CITY BRANDING

Michael Klein's and Andreas Rumpfhuber's contribution to the Branded Spaces Conference in Karlsruhe will be reading the Vienna Public Housing Model as a highly efficient, yet unprecedented instrument, for city-branding.

ANDREAS RUMPFHUBER: THE ACTIVIST DESIGN LABOURER

The contribution to the Design Activism Conference in Barcelona will be contesting the general assumption of design-activism to be per se resistant, dissident and/or oppositional. I will be outlining an understanding of design-activism as an inevitably performative practice shaped by and entangled within a – so called – post-fordist / late-capitalist / control society, that is not yet political, nor socially relevant.

THEORIESALON #6

CÉLINE CONDORELLI: SUPPORT STRUCTURES: SORTING THINGS OUT

19.00, Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna

 ‘Support Structures’ looks at the systems and structures that condition how we inhabit our environment, in order to open up new possibilities and propose reinventions. Support Structure is a 10-phase collaborative project (2003-2010) that proposes structures for “supporting” as its agenda.

 This lecture addresses questions on forms of display, organisation, appropriation, dependency, and temporariness; it will consider spatial practice as a form of political imagination.

THEORIESALON #5

MATHIEU WELLNER: ÜBERGÄNGE

19.00, Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Wien 

Die Veränderung von einem Zustand zu einem anderen hat eine Konstante: den Übergang. Nur dass sich z.B. bei abrupten Veränderungen die Übergangsdauer sehr verkürzen kann. Kann man diese Situation auch isolieren und rein räumlich betrachten? Geht es doch immer um Übergangs-Räume: in z.B. Brachen, leerstehenden Gebäuden, Treppenhäusern, Gefängnissen oder gar in der eigenen Gedankenwelt.mit: Mathieu Wellner, Architekt, Kurator, München

THEORIESALON #4 

DEANE SIMPSON: NUMBERS GAME: URBANISM AND SPATIAL DEMOGRAPHICS

19.00, Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna
Deane Simpson will investigate the increasingly important role played by market instruments in the production of contemporary urbanism. In particular, he will focus critically on the impact of a more recent discipline of demographics that is preoccupied with the examination of population characteristics – including age, gender, race, education, and disposable income – as they are deployed predominantly in marketing-related activities. The seminar will focus on concrete cases of Sun Cities

mit: Deane Simpson, Architect, Zürich/ Copenhagen

THEORIESALON #3

ELIANA SOUSA SANTOS: LANDSCAPE BEFORE ECOLOGY: ART AND SCIENCE AS COLD WAR STRATEGIES

19.00, Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Wien

The use of the concept of landscape within architectural discourse, during the 1940s and early 1950s, precedes the explosion of the use of the concept of ecology. An example of the use of the concept of landscape as a condensation of multiple meanings is to be found in Gyorgy Kepes's exhibition and publication "The New Landscape in Art and Science" (1956) as an experiment aimed at the redefinition of the creative field that included all the humanities and sciences.

mit: Eliana Sousa Santos, Architektin, Post-Doc Researcher Centro de Estudos Sociais da Faculdade de economia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

THEORIESALON #2

TERRITORIAL AGENCY: ARCHITECTURE: BETWEEN POLITY AND SPACE

19.00, Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna

As we take a further step into the shards of contemporaneity, uncertainty appears to be a ground condition in human activities: what is the shape of the relation between material space and contemporary inhabitation today? How can we understand the momentous shifts in notions of citizenship from an analysis of the concrete, material configurations of today’s territories, metropolis and extended urban areas? 

mit: John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Territorial Agency, London

THEORIESALON #1
MATTHIAS HEYDEN: COMMUNITY BASED DESIGN, AND BEYOND

19.00, Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Wien

Mathias Heyden thematisiert autogenerative, radikal-emanzipative Zivil- und Raumpolitiken hinsichtlich möglicher Planungs- und Architekturpraktiken. Diskutiert wird – entlang dreier Berliner Generationen "alternativer" Wohn-, Arbeits- und Kulturbauten – eine zunehmend informelle, situative Stadtentwicklung sowie die Frage, wie, angesichts dessen, eine basis-demokratische, konsequent-nachhaltige Entwicklung von Stadt als Ganzes imaginiert werden kann.

ARCHITECTURE OF CYBERNETICS OF ORGANIZATION

Kick Off of the FWF-funded (www.fwf.ac.at) research project Architecture of Cybernetics of Organization.

In the next three years Andreas Rumpfhuber will work on a comprehensive and systematic documentation of the architectural works of German management consultants Wolfgang and Eberhard Schnelle and its trans-disciplinary team from the late 1950s until mid 1970s. The research project explores the very unique non-architects design-practice (1) by registering its specific design-method "cybernetics of organization", (2) by addressing its engagement with the cybernetic discourse in running a publishing house and (3) by analysing its invention - the "Bürolandschaften" [office-landscapes].

SCIBE - SCARCITY AND CREATIVITY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

The ESF/HERANET-funded research project SCIBE - Scarcity and Creativity is officially starting its 3-years research circle. 

COLLOQUIUM: CULTURE, MEDIA, PROTEST

Andreas Rumpfhuber to give a talk at the Colloquium Culture, Media: Protest at the University in Lucerne. The title of his talk: Protest as Popular Culture and its spatial implications:  John Lennon and Yoko Ono Performing the Working Glamour.

SYMPOSIUM: IDEALE. ENTWÜRFE EINER „BESSEREN WELT" IN DER WISSENSCHAFT, KUNST UND KULTUR DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS

Andreas Rumpfhuber to speak at Symposium Ideale. His contribution: Irregular Rhythms. The production of an ideal sociecty as workers-socity - the office landscape [Irreguläre Rhythmen.Produktion einer idealen Gemeinschaft als Arbeitsgesellschaft: die Büro

AUDITION FOR DOM PROFESSORSHIP

Andreas Rumpfhuber to speak at the audition for the DOM Professorship (Research Center for Design Organization Media), University of Arts and Design, Linz/ Austria. The title of his talk: EXPANDED DESIGN AS DESIGN/RESEARCH PLATTFORM

PIGIARNIQ MAGAZIN PRESENTATION

Ausgabe 17, Mai 2009. 

Presentation of Magazin with contribution of Andreas Rumpfhuber: "Man" will nicht, "man" sieht nicht ein, "man" zieht nicht mit, "man" versucht dem Organisierenden mangelnde Logik nachzuweisen, wirft ihm Unkenntnis der Tagespraxis vor.

BAUHAUS KOLLOQUIUM WEIMAR: ARCHITECTURE IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE

Andreas Rumpfhuber to speak at Bauhaus Kolloquium Weimar about: Non-Places of Immaterial Labour – Architecture’s Dildotopia?