LINA – Learning, Interacting & Networking in Architecture

Guest Lecture by LINA fellows Charly Blödel (DE) & Estelle Jullian (FR)

Response by LINA fellows Bernadette Krejs & Max Utech (TU Wien, Housing and Design)
Moderated by Prof. Tina Gregoric & Thomas Amann

LINA Architecture Programme

The Institute of Architectural Design at TU Wien is a member of LINA, the European architecture platform (co-funded by the European Union), a network connecting prominent cultural players with emerging practitioners and thinkers in architecture. Its goal is to steer the architectural sector towards sustainable, circular and clean practices, to link the existing efforts into a united LINA Architecture Programme, and highlight new and emerging voices, giving them an international platform.
The LINA Architecture Programme is carried out by its members: architectural museums, universities, research networks, foundations, triennials, biennials, and other high-profile European and Mediterranean architectural organisations. Each year, they offer the chance for LINA fellows to become part of their programme, feature their work through lectures, workshops, mentorships, or other collaborative formats, and help their ideas reach further and gain an international audience.

In the first-year programme of TU Wien, LINA fellows are invited to lead a design studio with focus on a hands-on workshop in Sekirn am Wörthersee. The design studio will explore experimental regenerative design practices, using locally-specific materials and waste found on site and in the region of Wörthersee.

How can we live – and create – on a damaged planet? If, as the philosopher Baptiste Morizot describes, the ecological crisis is also a crisis of sensitivity, how can we feel, understand and weave new relationships with respect to the territory and the matter of the objects that constitute our own daily life and the more-than-human life that surrounds us? How can the architect take the role of the mediator and help foster these connections? Which tools, methodologies and (knowledge) collaborators do we need and which architectural possibilities spring from this framework?

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LINA fellows

Charly Blödel (DE) is an interdisciplinary designer and researcher based in Rotterdam. In her ongoing project ‘Soft Rubble’, started during her master studies at the Design Academy Eindhoven (2020), she focuses on the social and ecological implications of spatial constructs and production systems, with a particular focus on waste and material culture in the context of the climate crisis.
Having previously worked between communication strategies and exhibition design in the cultural field, she develops spatial and graphic media that support the workshop and performative formats of her work. She currently teaches at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and is a programme and exhibition producer at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museum for Architecture, Design & digital Culture in Rotterdam (NL).

https://charlybloedel.com/

Estelle Jullian (FR) lives and works in Valencia, Spain.
Her practice approaches different fields such as architecture, art, ecology and participation.
She understands praxis as city maker. She is interested in the development processes of inclusive tools that can be carried out in workshops, community projects and exhibitions, where space is understood from a social and cultural perspective. This interest in contemporary spatial practices, contemporary artistic practices and environmental issues also leads her to investigate the urban and rural space in a more experimental way.
Estelle considers each project as the opportunity to open a space of collective reflection. She has collaborated with numerous professionals involved in the built environment as architects and urban planners but also sociologists, artists, craftswomen, curators, educators and cultural managers.

https://estellejullian.com/

Bernadette Krejs (PhD) is an architect/researcher currently based at TU Vienna (Housing and Design). Her work moves in a transdisciplinary field between architecture, housing and visual culture, where she critically engages with various aesthetic practices and politics.

Max Utech is an architect working between urbanism, architecture, research and art. He is based at TU Vienna (Housing and Design) and was a fellow at Cité des arts Paris and ZK/U Center for Art/Urbanistics Berlin.

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