2. Karlsruher Architektursymposium. Freitag, 08. November 2024
The Department of Architecture of KIT Karlsruhe will host the second KIT - Karlsruhe Architecture Symposium with the title DIALOGUE ON DOUBT AND ERROR on
8 November 2024. Eight lecturers, some of whom are involved in architectural production and research and some of whom are rooted in related disciplines, will examine and discuss doubt and error at various levels in the context of contemporary conditions.
The event is organised by Sebastian Multerer and Christian Inderbitzin, Chair of City and Housing, Department of Architecture, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. It is open to the public and will be livestreamed.
Statement
Current political and environmental developments urge us to rethink the status quo of what was thought to be right or wrong. Instead of adopting one side, we embrace and exploit the in-between, which allows us to consider the nuances between the opposing perspectives. The legacy of the doubt and the error proves that they write rather a story of invention and progress rather than one of failure and surrender. Instead of striving for the shortest way to a common, but maybe already known solution, we should try to destabilize ourselves by enhancing doubt and error in the design process, in order to discover an alternative role of the architect and form alliances beyond the discipline. As a consequence, we want to promote the experiment on various levels in architecture and its related disciplines, as it bears a highly creative potential due to the fact it accepts and learns from failure. In the end the mistake is an opportunity to improve the process. Therefore, we not only establish a way of dealing with doubt and error, but also enforce an open discussion about these topics.
Angelika Hinterbrandner engages in diverse roles and formats within the field of architecture. Her primary interests lie in strategies and methods that advance political, spatial, and social transformation processes during times of polycrisis. She has collaborated with ARCH+ and Brandlhuber+ on topics such as land policy, Smart Cities, and neoliberal urban development. Since 2019, she has been a part of Kontextur. Since 2021, she has been teaching and conducting research at ETH Zurich. In 2022, along with five other contributors, she initiated spaceforfuture.org, an initiative committed to ensuring access to affordable, climate-appropriate housing for all. Since 2024, she has been serving as a research associate focusing on construction policy at the Bundestag.
Holger Schurk is a lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He studied Architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna where he received his PhD in Architectural History and Theory. Besides his teaching activity at Universities in Switzerland and Belgium he publishes widely in the field of Design- and Urban Theory. In 2012 he received the EAAE Prize for Writings in Architectural Education and in 2022 the Research Prize of the Austrian Architecture Chamber. His book entitled ‘Project without form. OMA, Rem Koolhaas and the Laboratory of 1989‘ was published by Spector Books in December 2020.
Alina Ana Kolar (AT, 1990) is a communication scientist, creative strategist, and curator specializing in visual cultures and political semiotics. She works at the intersection of art, activism, and social change, with a particular focus on the visuality of political events and representations of the public. An expert in diverse and inclusive management across organizations, Alina has built global partnerships and specialist consultancies that move fluidly through the public and private creative sectors. Between 2017–2022, she co-founded and led the international street newspaper, publishing house, and philanthropic organization Arts of the Working Class. Kolar is researching and teaching with station+ at ETH Zurich since 2023.
Rosa Menkman is a Dutch artist and researcher of resolutions. Her work focuses on noise artifacts resulting from accidents in both analogue and digital media. The journey of her protagonist, the Angel of History—inspired by Paul Klee’s 1920 monoprint, Angelus Novus, and conceptualized by Walter Benjamin in 1940—functions as a foundational framework for her explorations of image processing technologies. Complementing her practice, she published Glitch Moment/um (INC, 2011), a book on the exploitation and popularization of glitch artifacts. She further explored the politics of image processing in Beyond Resolution (i.R.D., 2020). In this book, Rosa describes how the standardization of resolutions promotes efficiency, order, and functionality, but also involves compromises, resulting in the obfuscation of alternative ways of rendering. In 2019, Rosa won the Collide Arts at CERN Barcelona award. From 2018 to 2020, Rosa worked as Substitute Professor of Neue Medien & Visuelle Kommunikation at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Since 2023, she has been running the Im/Possible Lab at HEAD Geneve.
Thomas Padmanabhan is a principal and founding partner of the Zurich-based architecture firm Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekt*innen. Since its establishment with Oliver Lütjens in 2007, Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekt*innen has been recognized nationally and internationally for their innovation in the field of affordable housing and for their joyful embrace of the expressive challenges of contemporary construction.
Thomas has taught at TU Munich, EPF Lausanne, at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and at ETH Zurich. Projects undertaken by Lütjens Padmanabhan are diverse in scale and type, spanning three continents. Recent projects include the award-winning Waldmeisterweg low- cost Apartment Building in Zurich, the Zwhatt Sufficiency Housing Project in Regensdorf, the Unterfeld Lake Power Plant as well as the Residences for the Swiss Ambassadors in Algier and Bogota.
The two architects Steffen Hägele & Tina Küng, who run the Zurich-based architecture firm Detour Universe, understand urban development as an architectural attitude that is reflected across projects down to the smallest detail of their buildings. They see themselves as activists whose responsibility goes beyond the building plot and is committed to the expanded urban space. Steffen Hägele and Tina Küng live and work in Zurich. Steffen Hägele teaches, in addition to his Master’s degree at the HSLU, spatial theory in the stage design program at the ZHDK and accompanies the Bachelor Curriculum Revision at the ETH. Tina Küng teaches besides the Master at the HSLU at the ETH at the chair Christ/Gantenbein.
Jocelyn Froimovich, an architect based in London, serving international clients. She works privately, with institutions and with public administrations on projects of varying scale and complexity. Facing challenging urban environments, Jocelyn works, as required, with specialists - engineers, landscape architects, lighting and graphic designers and others. She fully exploits the technical, social, environmental, aesthetic and economic demands of architecture. Jocelyn has won awards from the Arts Council and the British Council in the UK, the municipality of Milan, Columbia University in New York and the Ministry of Culture in Chile. Her work has been published in the periodicals AV, ARQ and Afasia and exhibited in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. She has served on the jury of several design competitions, has lectured internationally and taught at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Columbia University, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, XJTLU Xi'an Jiaotong- Liverpool University and the University of Liverpool, where she is a lecturer.
Dietrich Erben (*1961) is holding the Chair of Theory and History of Architecture, Art and Design since 2009. His work focuses on the history of art and architecture since the early modern period, in particular political iconography, architectural theory and the history of international art relations.
Prof. Erben studied art history, history and German. He received his Dr. phil. from the University of Augsburg in 1994 and his habilitation from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (Department of Architecture) in 2002. From 2003 to 2009, he was Professor of Art History, specialising in the Early Modern Period, at the Ruhr University in Bochum. Research visits have taken him to Paris, the German Study Centre in Venice and the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Institute) in Florence.
KIT-Fakultät für Architektur
Freitag, 08. November 2024
9.00 bis 18.00 Uhr
Grüne Grotte (Raum 104)
Englerstraße 7
76131 Karlsruhe
Organisation
Prof. i.V. Sebsatian MULTERER / Prof. Christian INDERBITZIN
Professur STADT UND WOHNEN
