New New Worlds
Lecturer | Felicity Scott, Architecture theorist, Columbia University, New York
Respondent | Aristide Antonas, architect and writer, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
In the framework of the project Theories of Urgency the Institute for Art and architecture (IKA) carries on its research on the topic of HITZE by undertaking a series of interviews and discourses with people whose work forms a relevant contribution to the field. The project intends to confront selected findings of the past two terms related to the city of Vienna to a more global understanding of the topic.
The event will be held in English
Felicity D. Scott is Professor of Architecture, Director of the PhD program in Architecture (History and Theory), and Co-Director of the program in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (CCCP) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University. Her work as a historian and theorist focuses on articulating genealogies of political and theoretical engagement with questions of techno-scientific, environmental, and geopolitical transformation within modern and contemporary architecture, art, and media, as well as upon the discourses, institutions and social movements that have shaped and defined these disciplines, sometimes evidently, sometimes less so.
Aristide Antonas is professor in the platform Geography Landscapes Cities at the Institute for Art and Architecture (IKA). His work spans philosophy, art, literature and architecture. He published novels, short stories, theatre scripts and essays and exhibits his work internationally.