Like many other European cities, Vienna is increasingly becoming an (over-)regulated city. Public spaces are more and more controlled and under surveillance. Inner city centres come to look alike - leaving no space for “surprises” or spontaneous actions.
Theresa Binder
Program invented and hosted by Social Design first-year students
A public assembly on the right to the city
A project for collaborative programming of public space.
Weekly live-stream concert series in an underground parking lot.
Dealing with deterrent design in public space, adressing subtle strategies of exclusion.
Entwickelt ein Soundtool um Potenziale von “Zwischenraum“ in der Stadt zu untersuchen.
Urban explorations in Vienna trying to discover different dimensions of transition.
Fighting for the right to the city with a pillow and a coffee cup!
A project using personal narratives to counteract the tendencies of radical top-down city planning.
It is about time to take a stand! We are looking for informal ways/processes of (re)making and appropriating the city. We focus on bottom-up processes of urban development that do not (necessarily) comply with official rules and regulations – as alternative paths of developing a city and access to the city. The field Spontaneous©ity compunds projects, actions and publications that deal with this broad topic from various approaches.