For a long time the notion of the in-between has had an influential role on our spatial understanding and can support unexpected approaches to issues related to the reciprocal influence between design and space. Acting the In-between is a one-week summer school whose aim is to challenge those forms of interaction and discussion, which one experiences and practices within various institutional communication and exchange spaces.

During this interdisciplinary summer school, we will concentrate on issues related to the idea of both, university and exhibition space, as established places of education and knowledge-transfer. Taking the Free University of Bozen Bolzano and ar/ge kunst as an example, we will investigate their role as active and discursive spaces and imagine further, ¿other¿ spaces.¿ The participants will be asked to develop these ¿other¿ spaces outside of the physical boundaries and the rules of the institutions and to question their characteristics. Is it possible to stimulate, in a non-conventional manner, the way we interact, discuss, show, see, talk and listen? How can these ¿other¿ spaces become tangible in the public space of Bolzano in the form of ephemeral, site-specific interventions/actions? ¿Guests from different disciplines and contexts will participate in the discussion around these issues with contributions in different formats, which can vary from workshops to walks or shared dinners.

Starting with an input by the artist Alex Martinis Roe and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, the participants will work through the week on the realisation of ephemeral interventions in the public space of the city of Bolzano.

Andreas Müller, Gerhard Glüher, Matteo Guidi, and Lupo & Burtscher will hold their lectures at the beginning of the week.

A presentation in the ar/ge kunst gallery is foreseen at the end of the school.

Acting the In-between is a cooperation between the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen Bolzano and ar/ge kunst, and the Department for Building Theorie by Design, Institute for Architecture and Design, TU Wien.