City of Vienna Visiting Professorship 2011

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (SKuOR) has launched a Call for Interests for two City of Vienna Visiting Professorship 2011 vacancies starting the 1st March 2011. The annual issue for 2011 is "Urban culture, public space and markets: Economy and innovation". The deadline for declaration of interests is the 18th of August 2010. For more information regarding the Call for Interests the Profile of Requirements, please have a look at the respective webpages. For further requests, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. phil. Sabine Knierbein (knierbein@skuor.tuwien.ac.at, +43-1-58801-26816).

SKuOR Publication

Since the 1980s public spaces are challenged by manifest aesthetic changes. This book follows the assumption that institutional transformations are expressed by these aesthetic changes. Institutional transformations which point to changing roles of the state and of markets in public space production processes. By investigating 'design-related coalitions' between out-of-home media companies and state actors Sabine Knierbein proves evidence for a recent phenomenon of the production of the city: A post-fordist accumulation strategy is revealed, whose originators systematically manage human attention as a scarce resource in public spaces. Yet when coalitions between state and markets are able to transform attention into capital in the course of the emerging economy of attention, then statehood is facing fundamental diemmata as regards a definition of roles and positionality as keeper of the Grail of public interest or as instance that contributes to the commodification of the collective. Because the commodity attention - generated in local public spaces - is already dealt with on global financial markets. Knierbein, Sabine (2010) "The production of central public spaces and the economy of attention. Aesthetic, economic and medial restructuing by design-related coalitions in Berlin since 1980" (in German) Wiesbaden, Deutschland VS Verlag.

Dates

23rd of September 2010
Social Street conference Tallinn - volume 2. Due to the volcano eruptions an alternative date for the conference, that was supposed to take place at the end of April, was found. Keynote speech by Sabine Knierbein.
 
24th + 25th of September 2010
Conference ‘After the Cultural City: New Positions for Culture in Urban Development' in Pécs, European Capital of Culture 2010, Hungary, on September 24-25, 2010. Architecture and Context program, a collaboration between the Chamber of Architects of Southwestern Hungary and the Mihály Pollack Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Pécs University on the occasion of the city's ECoC title year. Input by Sabine Knierbein
 
10th + 11th November 2010
European Conference on "Public space and the challenges of urban transformation in Europe: politics and culture"
in Vienna. Organized and hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (SKuOR) and the City of Vienna Visiting Professorship 2010. Further Information
 
12th of November 2010
AESOP Thematic Group Meeting 'Public Spaces and Urban Cultures' in Vienna