After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

identify spatial potentials for socially integrative co-learning in (Viennese) libraries, to reflect on different forms and settings of co-learning and to provide creative input for the new planning and design practice of the TUW library.

What can, what should our concrete artistic/architectural/design contribution be in the face of current social and educational policy challenges?
The teaching and research project "DISPLACED" was launched in 2015 in order to develop practical, socially integrative and directly educationally relevant 1:1 contributions on the spot with asylum seekers through self-empowerment, energy, social commitment and multi-layered learning - with and from each other.

With this DISPLACED Step-by-Step approach we leave the familiar learning location of the university and move to the Open University campus in Neu Marx in the immediate vicinity of the large refugee quarter Haus Erdberg. The "OPENmarx" area, which has been given to our faculty for temporary use by the "Wiener Standortentwicklungsgesellschaft" (WSE), has already been activated and expanded in the past semesters through teaching and research activities.

Students and asylum seekers come together as 1:1 teams via the already proven DISPLACED buddy system and initially set out together to find socially integrative "co-learning spaces". Week after week another "Co-Learning-Space" is to be explored - in Viennese libraries but also in (informal) places of residence and action in the city. By means of subjective findings, something about the common experience of space and the joint discussion of personal co-learning needs and experiences, but also by means of research, analysis and reflection, spatial conditions and design approaches that enable and promote the various forms of socially integrative co-learning will be explored and sounded out.
During the course core time (every Thursday from 15:00 to 17:00) these different research approaches and findings, which the small teams were able to gather on their weekly excursions, will be played back to the large group and discussed together. On the basis of the experience and research knowledge gained in this way, initial spatial settings are developed as input for the future reorganisation and redesign of the TUW library.

In this step-by-step design, the artistic process orientation is in the foreground; respectful, empathetic and confidence-building personal contact is an important basis. Because in real-live projects like this one, the central issue is to shape human relationships 1:1: As we know from our previous cooperation with asylum seekers, personal contact that appreciates value, joint meaningful action at eye level, verbal (and also non-verbal) exchange is particularly important in order to enable successful learning with and from each other.
Our local project partners will mainly come from the nearby refugee quarter "Haus Erdberg". However, it is also very welcome to make use of already existing personal contacts with asylum seekers and to involve them as buddies in this step-by-step process.

City walks and spatial on-site analyses in small teams, intercultural exchange in personal conversations, discussions in small and large groups, socio-spatial analyses using various artistic media (drawing, collage, photography, video, ...), spatial and creative improvisation

Änderungen in der LVA aufgrund der Corono-Pandemie (Stand 18.03.2020):
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This course is coordinated with the course "DISPLACED. Co-Working Spaces": https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/course/educationDetails.xhtml?dswid=8418&dsrid=678&courseNr=264210&semester=2020S
Participants who want to use both of these spaces will be given priority.

"DISPLACED. Co-Learning-Spaces" can also be optionally taken as part of the special module "Bildungslandschaften in Bewegung" (= Modul-Ergänzungsfach): https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/course/educationDetails.xhtml?dswid=8418&dsrid=884&courseNr=264174&semester=2020S

INTRODUCTION + 1st LECTURE: Thursday, March 12th 2020, 3 pm, OPENmarx (1030; Karl-Farkas-Gasse 1)
WORKING HOURS on site (with compulsory attendance): every Thursday, 3 - 5 pm

This work is process-oriented; personal performance and commitment throughout the semester is important as the concrete end product in the form of a picture-text documentation.

Special interest in social commitment and intercultural exchange is required!