foto by Marcel-de-Buck at the VanAbbe Musuem

November 28th, 2024

14.30-17.30 seminar (Kunstuni, Hauptplatz 6, 1st floor, Seminarroom H60137)

18.00 lecture (Kunstuni, Hauptplatz 6, 5th floor, Hörsaal D / Rep.Raum Ost (H60504)

Who hosts who? 

on hospitality and citizenship dialogue with Sandi Hilal 

A lecture series by space&designstrategies October 2024 – June 2025 chaired by 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? This year space&designstrategies at Kunstuni Linz proposes a series of lectures that are also part of a course open to all students of Kunstuni. 

Along with the 2025 Austrian Pavilion at Venice Biennale of Architecture, that this year will hold the discussion on possible collaboration in between Top-Down and Bottom-Up practices through the confrontation in between Vienna planning practices and Rome self-organization practices, the lectures will explore how and if spontaneous creativity and planning and architectural practices could cooperate to achieve a “better living”. 

The invited artists and architects are all well known academics and practitioner dealing with the issue in different ways.

Sandi Hilal 

(DAAR – Decolonizing Architecture) architect and researcher, was the head of the Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Program in the West Bank at UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) from 2008 to 2014. Together with Alessandro Petti, she founded Campus in Camps (www. campusincamps.ps), an experimental educational program hosted in Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. In 2007, together with Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman, she founded DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency) (www.decolonizing.ps) in Beit Sahour, Palestine, with the aim to combine an architectural studio and an art residency able to gather together architects, artists, activists, urbanists, film-makers and curators to work collectively on the subjects of politics and architecture. Sandi Hilal is a visiting professor at Lund University. 

Upcoming dialogues

January 30th

Who cares? on social practices

dialogue with Lucia Babina (Cohabitation Strategies)