Foto: Lorenzo Romito

⬇️Top Down⬆️Bottom Up Dialogues (150.002)

Where do changes come from?According with the I-Ching changes come from the bottom.According with the mainstream western culture changes come from the top, achieved by plans, imposed by elites, designed by professionals. Could top down and bottom up practices coop instead of conflict?

A lecture series by space&designSTRATEGIES October 2024 – June 2025

chaired by Lorenzo Romito

October 17th 2024 1.30 pm – 4.00 pm

space&designSTRATEGIES welcomes Philip Ursprung

the seminar: How do we learn? on explorative educational practices

1.30 pm. space&designSTRATEGIES seminar room (H60137) Hauptplatz 6, 1st floor 

the lecture: Neighbours.. a play of two Pavilions at the Biennale di Venezia

3.00 pm Hörsaal C / Rep.Raum West (H60501) Hauptplatz 6/5th floor, 4020 Linz

Philip Ursprung is an art historian specializing in late 20th- and 21st-century European and North American art and architecture. His research and teaching focus on the interrelation between architecture and art in a political and economic framework. Active as a historian, critic, and curator, Ursprung has taught at the University of Zurich, Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Columbia University, and Barcelona Institute of Architecture. After studying in Geneva, Vienna, and Berlin, he earned his Ph.D. in art history at Freie Universität Berlin. He is a professor of history of art and architecture at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he was dean of the department from 2017-19.

This year space&designSTRATEGIES  proposes a series of seminars and lectures, a course open to all students of Kunstuni.It is critical reflection along with the shaping of the next Austrian Pavilion @ Venice Biennale of Architecture (curated by Michael Obrist, Sabine Pollak and Lorenzo Romito) where the possible collaboration in between top down and bottom up practices will be proposed through the confrontation in between Vienna planning practices and Rome self organization practices. The lectures and seminars will explore if and how informal and spontaneous ways of living and planning practices could cooperate instead of conflicting so to achieve all a “better living”. The invited artists and architects are all well known academics and practitioners dealing with the issue in different ways.

Upcoming dialogues

November 28th

Who hosts who? on hospitality and citizenship

dialogue with Sandi Hilal (DAAR Decolonizing Architecture Art Research)

January 30th

Who cares? on social practices

dialogue with Lucia Babina (Cohabitation Strategies)