Exploration of the “Closely Unknown”

While digital encounters dominated Social Design Studio’s everyday life, by December 2020 it was time to escape digital virtuality and get out there into real spaces of imagination. Social Design Studio explored open sites and places in fresh air in and around Vienna — close but and maybe therefore quite unknown. Students conceptualized explorations ranging from guided tours to lunch at an urban farm, getting lost in a foggy heath, feasting at the cemetery, climbing Wienerberg, and bonfire talks in a quarry.

Program invented and hosted by Social Design first-year students:

10 DECEMBER 2020, 22ND DISTRICT

”Kleine Stadtfarm – A communal, interdisciplinary inter- and agricultural project” hosted by Sabrina Haas

“Lobau – an urban jungle providing free social encounters” hosted by Robert Bettinger

11 DECEMBER 2020, 13TH DISTRICT

“The Werkbundsiedlung: Examples of Viennese architecture and its international impact by Josef Frank., Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos and others” hosted by Jan Krek with a guided tour by architect Claudia Cavallar

15 DECEMBER 2020, 11TH DISTRICT

“The Cemetery as ‘Mirrorland’ to the City” hosted by Jelena Maschke and Paulina Flores de la Torre

16 DECEMBER 2020, PERCHTOLDSDORF

“Urban Wilderness: Escaping the City within the City” hosted by Laura Mann, Fabio Spink and Orest Yaremchuk

17 DECEMBER 2020, 10TH DISTRICT

“Climbing up Wienerberg” hosted by Dóra Medveczky

Time

Winter Semester 20/21

Location

Vienna

Team

Social Design first-year students