Ein fahrendes Wahllokal zu öffentlichem Raum und Architektur im Rahmen des Kulturherbst Neubau 2017. Aktuelle Tendenzen der Architektur und Stadtentwicklung werden als utopisch/dystopische Mini-Szenarios weitergedacht und in eine konkrete Maßnahme für den 7. Bezirk formuliert. In der Wahlkabine haben PassantInnen auf der Mariahilfer Straße für eine Stunde die Möglichkeit den Grad ihrer Zustimmung zu vermitteln.

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Follow up of a former NATO area

In the middle of the mountains, a relic of the Cold War. For decades an inaccessible area, in its seclusion and impenetrability a place of mythmaking. Today a place awaiting a new destiny. Instead of a commercial re-use, we propose, on the basis of a manifesto, to maintain the uniqueness of the area: its seclusion. The idea of enacting a temporary project in situ is the only way to give (maverick) thinkers, artists, do-it yourself experimenters, developers etc. access to the Zone for a specific time in order to celebrate the paradox of freedom latent in the seclusion. Only for a short time each year the Zone opens its doors to the general public to show what has developed in it during this time. A new myth is created.

Hoogvliet Outside-in uses the temporary emptiness of big housing blocks within the satellite town of Hoogvliet as part of a strategy to fight the apathy in this area. The individual apartments in the half empty housing blocks are understood as spaces that should be utilised by artists and the population of Hoogvliet with full awareness of their slow but imminent destruction. The intention is that the buildings, as multi-functional units, should become small bastions of exchange of opinion and of positive excess that makes the choice between boredom and criminality obsolete. The units distributed throughout Hoogvliet become a temporary subversive system of possibilities of expression. If everything in outdoor space in the Netherlands is regulated, then indoor space becomes the last utopia.

Perception tool for public space

“urbanism — for sale” was the contribution to the Austrian exhibition by feld72 at the 7th Architecture Biennale in São Paulo, Brazil. The project takes the 2007 ban on advertising for the entire urban space of São Paulo as an opportunity to address consumer mechanisms and the question of public and private space. Does public space even still exist? Where do the boundaries between public and private blur? 20,000 magenta-coloured stickers with 15 different questions and statements were distributed during the exhibition. Visitors were invited to place the stickers all over the city, thereby appropriating the public space. The snapshots as evidence of public territorial markings could be published on an online photo platform.

Sign and Guidance System for the Museum Quarter Vienna

Challenged to find an iconic entry building and guidance system for the Museum Quarter (MQ) we proposed the human body as the most authentic and convincing image. The SERVUS as personalised MQ identity gets in direct personal interaction with passengers, showing its potential as immediate, flexible and sensitive communicator. The changing of SERVUS-guards with its red uniforms wearing a strange hat modeled after the museum facade would add another spectacle tot he cultural offering – and becoming a new Vienna-Cliché by itself.

Perception tool for public space (as part of the exhibition “MEGA – Manifeste der Anmaßung”)

How can people make the transformations of public space visible and leave comments and suggestions on them in specific places? The sticker is becoming a medium able to make some of the invisible parameters that define and strongly changed the public space visible; parameters that have already changed it significantly in recent decades and to deal with these changes in a playful and subversive way. 20,000 stickers with 15 different statements were placed in the respective exhibition rooms for free removal and were left by the visitors at the corresponding rooms in the city. A network of meanings became visible.

Award: State Award for Experimental Tendencies in Architecture, AT

Temporary forecourt occupation of the MuseumsQuartier

The forecourt of the MuseumsQuartier is a large and perfectly located open space in the heart of Vienna — although so far it has been so far underestimated. feld72 temporarily cultivated the previously unused forecourt as a private allotment garden settlement. The provision of appropriate equipment such as deck chairs, parasols or paddling pools evoked the use of this fallow area. Passers-by and residents were thus encouraged to become actors in the urban space. The weeklong installation was accompanied by discussions with invited guests on the topic of public space. The short term “privatisation” created the paradox of a public sphere that had never existed before.

Award: State Award for Experimental Tendencies in Architecture, AT