Visiting Professorship 2012 – 2012: Urban culture, public space and resources. Aesthetics and materiality.

After establishing the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space at Vienna UT during phase I (2009-2011), within phase II (2012-2014) consolidation at Vienna UT is fostered. The second 3-years'-cycle involves innovation: The Interdisciplinary Centre's learning, dynamic structure is represented by the fluent transition from a 2-1 model – 2 yearly changig temporary Visiting Professors and 1 continous University Assistant (PostDoc) – to a 1-1-1 model: Starting March 2012 1 yearly changing temporary Visiting Professor (Senior), 1 continously working Assistant Professor (Tenure track) and 1 University Assistant (limited, PreDoc position, part time) to be appointed by 1st of March 2012, will be working together. They will still be supported by the permanent team. This development serves the Interdisciplinary Centre's institutional consolidation and coincides with Vienna UT's mission statement: Developing excellence in research and conveying competence in teaching. Thus, the team's dialogically working structure maintains the integral part within integrative research and teaching of this innovative horizontal institution. Starting March 2012 the new City of Vienna Visiting professor 2012 – Prof. PhD. Maria Kaika (University of Manchester, Manchester/UK) – is starting to work at SKuOR in the field of 'Urban culture, public space and resources. Aesthetics and materiality'.

Publications

KNIERBEIN Sabine, RIEGER-JANDL Andrea and BANERJEE Ian [Eds.] (2010) Information. Communication. Attention! Exploratory urban research beyond city branding. IVA Verlag Vienna, Austria. ISBN: 978-3-900265-18-2
KNIERBEIN Sabine (2010) The production of central public spaces and the economy of attention. Aesthetic, economic and medial restructuring by design-related coalitions in Berlin since 1980. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. Wiesbaden.
Mit einem Geleitwort von Max Welch Guerra. 437 S. Mit 51 Abb., davon 2 in Farbe u. 14 Tab. Br. ISBN: 978-3-531-17424-2.
KNIERBEIN Sabine, RIEGER-JANDL Andrea und BANERJEE Ian [Eds.] (2010)   Information. Communication. Attention! Exploratory urban research beyond city branding. IVA Verlag Wien. ISBN: 978-3-900265-18-2

Dates

23rd of December 2011 - 03rd of January Jänner 2012
'Merry Christmas' by the SKuOR-team! We are at your disposal again at 03rd of January 2012.
16th - 20th of January 2012
Third intensive teaching block. Vienna UT.
06th - 08th of February 2012
European February Workshop 'Urban Cultures - Stadtkultur'. Vienna UT
9th of February 2012
07:00 pm: Panel discussion "Wie baut man öffentliche Räume" with Sabine Knierbein, within the series "Stadt Bauen in Wien". Planungswerkstadt Wien.