credits: Heidrun Holzfeind, from the series: Colonnade Park, Mies in Newark Revisited, 11 C prints, 40x60cm, 2010 Austrian artist Heidrun Holzfeind`s work is based on theoretical investigations on t...
mosaic on a facade of the Viennese council housing, 2nd district, Vienna Die Stadt Wien wurde bereits mehrfach (lt. Mercer-Studie 2008 und 2009; Smart City of The World 2012: Lebensqualität -Platz 1)...
From 20th to 22nd of September 2012 the European Urban Research Association (EURA) is going to hold its annual conference titled Urban Europe – Challenges to Meet the Urban Future at the Vienna...
source Take-out restaurant meets public art project, serving food from countries that the United States is in conflict with. Et voilà: The Conflict Kitchen in Pittsburgh is born. Jon Rubin, Dawn Wele...
Gertrud Lehnert ist Professorin für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Potsdam. Zu ihren Arbeitsschwerpunkten gehören die Geschichte der Lyrik, Modegeschicht...
Some of you might remenber, that I curated the blog for Das Gemeindebaufestival 2012/2011. All contributions from collages to text to photos have recently been honored with a great 400-pages publicat...
© Veronica Mastrosimone 2010. Buenos Aires Worldwide, new religious movements are shaping communities, changing cultures, economies and everyday life in the metropolis. the Urban Cultures of Global P...
Trailer: Of Time and the City by Terence Davies, 2008. Review summary by A.O. Scott on New York Times Review by Kenneth Turan on Los Angeles Times Web site: Of Time and the City
source How can we understand the physical flows through this specific place and time in relation to constellations of urban thought? Can the bodily connection to these thoughts be mapped or choreogra...
source Invisible City – Technologies of the Body is an exhibition project as a result of a long-term research and collaboration between the artists Amélie Brisson-Darveau, Gisèle Schindler, Ri...
My warmest wishes for a fantastic new year! Time to say thanks to all of you for being interested, coming back, reading, linking in, liking and commenting here on m.e.t.r.o.n.o.m.! seen at Karlsplatz...
Some numbers as basic knowledge: In Vienna there`re 2,200 women officially registered as sex workers, but according to estimates there`re 2,000 – 2,500 non-registered prostitutes. 70-90% of the...
From the series Am Hochsitz, seen in Austria, 2011
Am 19.Dezember 2011 hielt Tex Rubinowitz, Cartoonist und Autor, im (hochoffiziellen und unbedingt sehenswerten) Kuppelsaal der TU Wien einen Vortrag mit dem Titel “Wien von hinten. Wo die Stad...
Read the city and get an impression on how political and societal developments effect a city`s structure: This video concentrating on forms of urban agglomerations is part two of the series The worl...
In times of urban sprawl and an enormous growth of suburbs around cities in the world, the project Culburb (which stands for Cultural Acupuncture Treatment for Suburb) aims to reactivating the public...
Detroit and Berlin are iconic cities; symbols of cultural and economic domination, as well as of collapse, and (potential) rebirth. Detroit and Berlin have ideological similarities that go far beyond...
filmstills via The fantastic Ubuweb offers the 52 minutes-long documentary Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles from 1972: The documentary, Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (1972, 52 min.), takes the viewe...
source On October 23, 2011, Judith Butler, American philosopher spoke at Occupy Wall Street. As an expert for feminism, gender- and queer theories, ethics and political philosophy, she added the dime...
We have global time, belonging to the multimedia, to cyberspace, increasingly dominating the local time-frame of our cities, our neighborhoods. Nothing is ever obtained without a loss of something el...
seen in Vienna, 2nd district
The Foodprint Project is a series of events exploring the ways food and cities give shape to one another. It`s founded by Sarah Rich and Nicola Twilley, who`s been answering my questions in th...
credits: Stadtambulanz, poster The EXPERIMENTDAYS 01. WIEN will take place for the first time in Vienna, starting today in the recently opened Museum 21er Haus with a warm-up including discussions an...
[...] Eine gelungene Inszenierung hängt unmittelbar mit der Räumlichkeit zusammen. Diese definiert sich als geometrischer Raum mit einem gewissen Grundriss und Volumen, ist aber als performativer Rau...
all photos: Yaron Steinberg, left and right lobes of the brain, the brain/city project With his diploma work the brain/city project Yaron Steinberg graduated from the department of visual communicati...
The international series of lectures Achieving a sustainable and sustaining built environment is going to start in November at University of Technology Vienna, lecture hall Günther Feuerstein, 14A: 0...
After London and Moscow, Istanbul with its nearby 15 million inhabitants is the third largest city in Europe and makes up the biggest city in Turkey with 20% of the country`s population. The document...
Flyer: DAZ / Julika Gittner For a period of two weeks London-based artist Julika Gittner has placed her sculptures VANDALS #2 and #3 in public areas of Berlin. Chained to lampposts these objects are ...
For an article about the meaning of acoustics in the city zone and its growing importance in the fields of art, urban planning and architecture, published in the Sunday issue of Austrian daily Die Pr...
credits: Zukunft Stadt, Flyer, Foto: Magdalena Gössinger / Der Programmflyer als pdf: Zukunft Stadt Programm Die Fakultät für Architektur und Raumplanung der Technischen Universität Wien lädt erneut ...
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