After successful completion of the course, students are able to recognize strategies of artistic thinking and acting as impulses for their own creative work and to apply them in self-acting design processes, both individually and team-oriented.
The teaching and research project "DISPLACED" was launched in 2015 in order to develop practice-oriented, socially integrative and directly educationally relevant 1:1 contributions on site with asylum seekers through self-empowerment, energy, social commitment and multi-layered learning – with each other and from each other.
With this "Artistic Project" we want to once again explore the question of what our concrete artistic/architectural/design contribution can be in view of current socio-political challenges. In order to find practical answers, we leave the familiar learning location of the university and go to the "OPENmarx" city laboratory site, which is located in the immediate vicinity of Vienna's currently largest refugee quarter, the "Haus Erdberg", and is temporarily given to our faculty for temporary use by the Wiener Standortentwicklungsgesellschaft - WSE. Through the teaching and research activities of recent years, close contacts were established with asylum seekers, OPENmarx was activated as a socially integrative project and education landscape and expanded in line with needs.
With "DISPLACED. Sozialintegratives Stadtlabor", the diverse potentials that the area already offers are to be researched and focused this semester in order to develop new perspectives for the currently planned continued existence of the Stadtlabor until the end of 2021: Existing (spatial structures, existing networks, partnerships with asylum seekers living in Haus Erdberg, materials, (temporary) arrangements, etc.) will be examined and analysed with the eyes of the new LVA participants in a first project phase and enriched with innovative and creative input in the form of new project and workshop ideas in a second project phase. In team constellations with our "Buddys" from Haus Erdberg we will work this semester on creative-experimental processes, which will contribute to the further optimisation and exemplary positioning of the existing city laboratory OPENmarx as a socially integrative and intercultural educational landscape.
Start of the course:
Thursday, 10 October 2019, 14:00 s.t., OPENmarx (1030 Wien, Karl-Farkas-Gasse 1)
Weekly core working time during which continuous on-site presence is absolutely necessary:
every Thursday, 14:00 - 18:00
1:1 project implementation and preparation of a project report (logbook, storyboard, picture story, etc.) in which the course of the project and the associated individual and collective learning experiences are documented in text and picture in a manner appropriate to the process.
Skills in craftsmanship, basic social skills and the ability to work independently, team- and process-oriented are required.
An interest in intercultural exchange and in learning with and from each other is absolutely essential.