All lectures start at 7pm and will take place via Zoom.
LECTURE SERIES SUMMER 2021
To receive the link to the Zoom event, please send a registration to arch@akbild.ac.at.
HITZE [heat] as a property of bodies, spaces and regions has shaped and continues to shape our thinking about architecture and cities. The lecture series is part of IKA’s 2019/20 special programme HITZE TAKES COMMAND and examines the spatial culture of temperature, and its broader social and political implications, through the eyes of a number of contemporary thinkers. The historians, artists, scientists and architects assembled in this lecture series will explore the topic of HITZE in dimensions ranging from the soup pot to the troposphere.
INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Brian Cody Head of the Institute of Buildings and Energy, Graz University of Technology
Who can think of the future today without consideration of HITZE? Every exceptionally warm day is imagined as portending future disaster, while a sudden cold day provides hope that the ravages of climate change might be mitigated. Our experience of HITZE is overburdened with dread and yet, HITZE is also a form of pleasure – integral to sensations of taste, comfort and sexuality. We hope to discover and understand more about the realm of HITZE in explorations of fields that will shape the future of architecture and urbanism. The lecture series is organised and curated by Hannes Stiefel.
12 May 2021
FORM FOLLOWS ENERGY Claudia Bosse Choreographer and Director, theatercombinat, Vienna
19 May 2021
THE HEAT OF INNER ORGANS MICROCOSMIC AND MACROCOSMIC CONSTELLATIONS Peter Sellars Distinguished Professor, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
27 May 2021
THE ARCHITECTURE OF INJUSTICE, AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF JUSTICE
The HITZE TAKES COMMAND project 2019/2020 is generously supported by IMMOBILIEN PRIVATSTIFTUNG.