Urban Knights Vienna

Urban Knights is a programme of events, which provokes and promotes practical approaches to urban change. Established in Dublin the programme brings together people who are actively creating alternatives, which reflect or produce disruptions to our given city infrastructures, norms and perceptions.

Speakers include: Julia Wieger [AT], Hans Bernhard, UBERMORGEN.COM [AT] and Theresa Schutz [AT]

Das Packhaus, 3 July, 19hr, Marxergasse 24, Wien

Urban Knights is a programme of events, which provokes and promotes practical approaches to urban change. The programme brings together people who are actively creating alternatives, which reflect or produce disruptions to our given city infrastructures, norms and perceptions.

This first edition in Vienna will focus on new urban governance, commons, collective well-being and shared civic resources.

Biographies:

Julia Wieger [AT]
Architect, co-organiser of Vienna's Summer School for 'Spaces of Commoning' and founder of the 'Radical Practices of Collective Care'project, present views on developing cooperative care structures for citizens.

Hans Bernhard [AT]
Rethinking our approach to governance, co-founder of the internationally renowned artist group UBERMORGEN discusses radical-self experiments, including media and legal hacks as strategies for rethinking how we organise our techno-civic lives.

Theresa Schutz [AT]
Architect, co-founder of the urban arts collective 'Gehsteig-Guerrilleros' and member of the CIT Collective illustrates how the collective have been lobbying to turn Vienna's 'Gaswork Leopoldau' into an open and democratically run area for cultural development and production.

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Urban Knights is curated by Teresa Dillon. Urban Knights Vienna was made possible through the artist-in-residency programme quartier21, Vienna with Artistic Bokeh and a partnership with Paradocks, Vienna.

Further details:
http://www.urbanknights.org
http://www.polarproduce.org
http://www.artisticbokeh.com
http://www.quartier21.at
http://www.paradocks.at