antonas - theoriesalon

THEORIESALON #8 Monday 12.12.2011 19h Depot Breite Gasse 3 1070 Vienna

Aristide Antonas EXPANDED DESIGN www.expanded design.net

Population of Fragments

THEORIESALON #8 Contemporary research on ma- elements build propositions or form utterances by orchestratteriality in the contemporary world investigates collections ing fragments. of given, unimportant matter. with Aristide Antonas, Athens Some idiosyncratic operations Host: Andreas Rumpfhuber enable different architectures Aristide Antonas is a Greek architect and formed through the sole aswriter, associate professor at the Universemblage of insignificant sity of Thessaly, postgraduate seminar material. Such assemblages director at the National Technical University of Athens, and the founder of the propose different structures Antonas Office. He co-founded the plural in different conditions; they academic persona, "Gregorios Pharmamight make sense as site-spe- kis", and the curating group, Built-Event. cific strategies. Remodeling and reordering insignificant ABOUT THEORIESALON

Theoriesalon is a loose series of architectural and design theory seminars that aim to challenge the presently expanding concepts of design and architecture. The seminars will be reviewing critical contemporary design practices. Each of the positions that will be presented in the Theoriesalon series addresses interventions in the material world that strive to change our reality in an egalitarian way.

Within this perspective, it is important to discuss theory in terms of everyday design practices, including the issue of whether design can be seen as a political practice.

Theoriesalon is an initiative

by Expanded Design, an office for architecture, design and research based in Vienna. www.expandeddesign.net

In cooperation with Depot Wien, www.depot.co.at funded by: