Launch of Issue #0 and Forum #1
September 25, 2021, 4pm
forA on the Urban
Launch of Issue #0 and Forum #1
hosted by the IoA-Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Welcome: Gerald Bast, president, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Introduction: Andrea Börner, Urban Strategies, IoA; Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda, Studio 1, IoA; Baerbel Mueller, Applied Foreign Affairs Lab, IoA.
Forum #1
With Lesley Lokko, John McMorrough, Saskia Sassen, and Liam Young
Lesley Lokko, Architect, Founder und Director of the African Futures Institute (AFI), Accra, Ghana, Africa
John McMorrough, Architect, Researcher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Saskia Sassen, Sociologist, Columbia University, New York, USA
Liam Young, Architect und Film Director, SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, USA
On the occasion of the 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, the IoA-Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna cordially invites you to the presentation of forA on the Urban—a journal as process and artefact aiming for inclusive forms of knowledge production between academic traditions and emerging approaches. forA on the Urban examines the open, unfinished, multi-scaled, inter-connected, complex and wild nature of urban manifestations, challenges and situations through an expended notion of architecture.
forA on the Urban is a project made possible by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, conceptualized and produced by the Institute of Architecture (IoA), edited by Gerald Bast, Andrea Börner, Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda, and Baerbel Mueller, and supported by an international advisory board consisting of experts: Tom Avermaete, Margitta Buchert, Nerea Calvillo, Mario Carpo, Filip de Boeck, Keller Easterling, Teresa Galí-Izard, Mario Gandelsonas, Andrew Herscher, Sandi Hilal, Nikolaus Hirsch, Sanford Kwinter, Lesley Lokko, Mpho Matsipa, John McMorrough, Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer, Alesandro Petti, Philippe Rekacewicz, Curtis Roth, Saskia Sassen, Abdoumaliq Simone, Ines Weizman, Liam Young.
The first issue #0 aims to initiate the cyclical nature of its project in this very initial phase by fostering a process of invited and openly addressed contributions to be reflected on a discursive online platform, compiled in a pilot issue of the journal and debated at a launching event in September 2021. With regard to the openly declared interests in emerging topicalites and formats, the aim is to intentionally conflate contributions that address spatial entanglements, dialogues and processes and methods of articulations, without framing any particular subject or topic. Issue #0 rather aims to open up the field to provide rich material and thought for further exploration in subsequent issues. Accordingly, the current strategy is twofold: invited contributions on the one hand should give direction and framing from very particular backgrounds and a high level of expertise, whereas an open call for contributions is not limited to a particular disciplinary field but is open to spatial investigations of all kinds.
Livestream available here.
