After successful completion of the course, students are able to formulate conceptual theses and questions by analyzing theoretical feminist texts in order to question traditional spatial principles and cultural frameworks and to develop multi-layered architectural solutions.
By means of independent research, they can architecturally record existing structures and use these as a basis for the development of conceptual and spatial solutions. They are also able to establish interrelationships between an individual building and an urban spatial structure.
Building on this analytical work, they are able to create, discuss and comprehensively present the design project in plan, image, model and text.
Based on theoretical feminist texts, conceptual theses and questions are formulated in order to rethink socio-spatial aspects of housing. Conceptualizations of public and private space are challenged by the creation of (communal) housing, public areas and the urban open space in the existing Viennese urban fabric.
Introvideo https://portal.tuwien.tv/View.aspx?id=10791~5f~xexBbLDrGE
‟(...) What kinds of processes enable the worker to arrive at the doors of her place of work every day so that she can produce the wealth of society? What role did breakfast play in her work-readiness? What about a good night's sleep? (...) What about the public transportation system that helped bring her to work, or the public parks and libraries that provide recreation so that she can be regenerated, again, to be able to come to work?”
Tithi Batthacharyia, ‟Introduction: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory”
Based on Tithi Batthacharyia's introductory words in "Social Reproduction Theory ‒ Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression‟, we will be concentrating this term on the places that are central to so-called reproductive work. Looking for new alternatives to the capitalist approach of home ownership and the strict demarcation between the private and the public realm, concepts of the communal and self-organization will be discussed in many different ways. Central to this is a rethinking of socio-spatial aspects of living space, which, despite intensive critical consideration, is still too often based on the standard model of the classic apartment for a nuclear family. In addition to this, an urban-public typology is to be developed, which is derived from the respective concept. The aim is to question existing built structures for traditional role models and to rethink living spaces. The extent to which the architectural production itself can be seen as care work will be explored.
Conceptualizations of public and private space are challenged by the creation of (communal) living, public areas and urban open space. Novel approaches in the overlapping of uses and in the spatial organization of neighbourly coexistence are explored by means of design: the arrangement of an openly accessible area forms the connection point and is to be harmonized with the residential function in order to create a new spatial and building composition in the existing urban morphology. The result is a forward-looking architectural design that, as a new building, enhances the existing context in the Am Tabor/Alliiertenstraße area in the 2nd district.
On the basis of feminist theories, positions will first be developed in the form of group presentations and used as a basis for the spatial development of the projects on the building site. To this end, historical and contemporary texts by feminist theorists such as Silvia Federici, Tithi Batthacharyia, Nancy Fraser, David Madden and many others will be read and discussed. The aim is to link concepts of social reproduction theory with architectural design methods in order to develop strategies for the development of living spaces that go beyond the traditional spaces we are familiar with.
Teams of two to three people choose a focus based on the theoretical texts they have read and work on this in greater depth in the project. The results are to be implemented as a composition on the building site at all scales, and the interfaces with the surrounding space are also to be critically examined. The aim is to develop an urban planning solution for the building site that reconciles the interests of the various stakeholders and users on site.
The event will be held bilingually in English and German. Both the workshop and the presentation sessions will be held together with Carmen Lael Hines and supplemented by further guest lectures. The course overlaps with the course VIENNA MAHALA, presentations and workshop will be held together.
KICK-OFF: Monday 4.3.2024 14:30‒16:00 Room CA0322, Gusshausstraße 27‒29
Weekly dates: Thursdays 9 am‒3 pm
Text presentations: 21.3.2024 9 am‒6 pm Raumlabor
Workshop: 15‒18.4.2024, final concept presentation on 18.4.2023 9‒18 h, Arsenal
Intermediate presentation: 16.5.2024 oder 23.5.2024, 9‒19 hrs Raumlabor
Final presentation: Wed 26.6. and/or Thu 27.6.2024, 9 am‒7 pm Raumlabor
