Theoriesalon18

THEORIESALON #18 Monday 5. 5. 2014 19h Depot Breite Gasse 3 1070 Vienna

EXPANDED DESIGN www.expanded design.net

Ethel Baraona Pohl:

Post-Welfare City

THEORIESALON #18

to provoke real structural This talk will explore the poschanges? sibilities to implement smallscale designs that can be cata- Host: Andreas Rumpfhuber lyst for larger-scale impact.

Ethel Baraona Pohl is a critic, writer Baraona Pohl asks if innovative and curator. She is co-founder of the economic models and tools independent publishing house dprbarcelona. She was associate curator such as crowdfunding, and of Adhocracy and is co-curator of the cryptocurrencies can affect Think Space program 2013–14 on the and transform the role of theme of “Money”. the architect? And how can such new practices deal with large uncertainties? How to transform this dizzying abundance of alternative projects

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: