HITZE 2 Lecture Series

HITZE 2

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 HITZE, part of IKA’s 2019/20 special programme HITZE TAKES COMMAND, 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.

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.

16 March 2020 HITZE–KOCHEN–ESSEN

Sohyi Kim,Chef, restaurant Kim kocht, Vienna

30 March 2020 FORM FOLLOWS ENERGY

Brian Cody, Head of the Institute of Buildings and Energy, Graz University of Technology

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Institute for Art and Architecture Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna IKA Forum / 1st floor, core N

all lectures start at 7pm

20 April 2020 THE HEAT OF INNER ORGANS_MICRO- COSMIC AND MACROCOSMIC CONSTELLATIONS

Claudia Bosse, Choreographer and Director, theatercombinat, Vienna

25 May 2020 THE ARCHITECTURE OF INJUSTICE, AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF JUSTICE

Peter Sellars, Distinguished Professor, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance

RELEASE: BLANK #2!!

blank is an international students publication, initiated by a group of students of the IKA, that serves as a blank space for everyone’s ideas. It might be nothingness and emptiness, but it also is the potential to be filled by our imagination. We see it as a free space, as a start, perhaps a challenge - an opportunity for sure!

The second issue on the topic of crisis compiles more than 60 literary, visual, critical and artistic turning points from all around the world. Collectively selected from more than 100 entries in response to our Open Call, they will give multiple perspectives on moments of crisis.

On 23 April 2020 our crisis issue will be festively released! (location tba)

Edited by Ella Felber, Stepan Nest, Lisa Penz, Sebastian Seib, Martin Sturz, Carla Veltman; graphics by David Gallo.

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