Symposium Drawing Otherwise

DRAWING OTHERWISE
Imagining Architectures, Sites, Places, Infrastructures and Landscapes

Monday, November 25, 2024
10am – 6pm
Venue: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz, Sitzungssaal/Conference Room

please register via symposium@wohnbau.tuwien.ac.at

curated by Bernadette Krejs (Vienna University of Technology) and Elke Krasny (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)

In order to build the world otherwise we need to learn how to draw otherwise. In order to draw otherwise we need to learn how to imagine otherwise. The symposium DRAWING OTHERWISE imagines architectures, sites, places, infrastructures and landscapes by un/doing, un/learning, un/seeing and un/drawing against and beyond existing conditions and wants to explore other possible futures of living together. Bringing together practitioners, theorists and scholars from architecture, visual culture, and art education the symposium explores the potential of articulating imaginaries based on solidarity, reciprocity, generosity, and empathy. We navigate between what is and what could be: How forms of representation draw on, and thus reproduce, existing norms of inequity, extraction, and domination; and how the contributions work toward drawing otherwise into being transformative spaces, healing infrastructures, and new care-full imaginaries for digital and physical realms. „Because it matters what stories tell stories.“

with: Mona Mahall & Asli Serbest, Rhiarna Dhaliwal & Emmy Bacharach (Xcessive Aesthetics), Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk, Louisa Engel, Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt.

10:00 Welcome and Introduction: Symposium DRAWING OTHERWISE
Elke Krasny & Bernadette Krejs

10:30 Drawing Otherwise
Bernadette Krejs

11:00 – 12:30 SESSION 1: Drawing Otherwise and the (Re)-Presentation of Space
Mona Mahall / Asli Serbest: Otherwises
Louisa Engel: Re-Educating Infrastructures. The Aesthetics of Democracy Building and Social Market Economy in Post-Socialist Germany
Panel Discussion

12:30 – 14:00 LUNCHBREAK

14:00 – 15:30 SESSION 2: Drawing Otherwise and the Power of Digital Realms
Xcessive Aesthetics (Rhiarna Dhaliwal / Emmy Bacharach): Rituals of Reclaiming Space and Hybrid Realities
Sophie Lingg: How to Talk About Queerfeminist Art on Social Media: Challenges and Concerns)
Panel Discussion moderated by Joanna Zabielska

15:30 – 17:30 SESSION 3: Drawing Living Together Otherwise
Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk: remembering through spatial storytelling.
Helena Schmidt: Sunflower Fields ‹Forever›: Iconic Landscapes, Social Media and the Anthropocene
Panel Discussion: with Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk, Helena Schmidt, Mona Mahall, Asli Serbest, Emmy Bacharach, Rhiarna Dhaliwal, Bernadette Krejs and Elke Krasny

in collaboration with
Housing and Design/ Institute for Architecture and Design (TU Wien)
Program for Art and Education/Department for Education in the Arts (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Visual Culture / Institute for Arts and Architecture (TU Wien)

Team
Bernadette Krejs, Elke Krasny, Marie Gnesda, Sinem Firat, Mir* Miriam Roggen, Hannah Nusser, Batja Ferch, Marcel Schmitz, Laura Huber, Joanna Zabielska, Franz Ollertz,…