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designing unbuilding
on construction sites, contact zones and planetary agency
a lecture by
Marlene Wagner
designing unbuilding
on construction sites, contact zones and planetary agency
In her lecture, Marlene Wagner examines the complex relations between architectural practice and representation across continents, bridging theory and practice, participation and collectivity. Drawing from her PhD research, "Mapping 'Social Architecture' – Critical Reflection and Methodic Experiment on Cross-Cultural and Trans-Disciplinary Practice," she investigates transformative approaches through a critical re-reading within her own post-colonial archive. With selected transnational projects referred to as “New Social Architecture” and rooted in the “DesignBuild” movement of the early 2000s, she explores the knowledge culture of construction sites and questions the spatial concept of the contact zone. By sharing traces and narratives of beginnings, endings and entanglements she hopes to contribute to the discussion of the (im)possible mediation of planetary agency and effects of designing unbuilding.
on construction sites, contact zones and planetary agency
In her lecture, Marlene Wagner examines the complex relations between architectural practice and representation across continents, bridging theory and practice, participation and collectivity. Drawing from her PhD research, "Mapping 'Social Architecture' – Critical Reflection and Methodic Experiment on Cross-Cultural and Trans-Disciplinary Practice," she investigates transformative approaches through a critical re-reading within her own post-colonial archive. With selected transnational projects referred to as “New Social Architecture” and rooted in the “DesignBuild” movement of the early 2000s, she explores the knowledge culture of construction sites and questions the spatial concept of the contact zone. By sharing traces and narratives of beginnings, endings and entanglements she hopes to contribute to the discussion of the (im)possible mediation of planetary agency and effects of designing unbuilding.
15.02.2025 7pm
at MAGAZIN
Space for Contemporary Architecture
Rembrandtstrasse 14/1A, 1020 Vienna
The lecture takes place for the finissage of the current exhibition Conviviality by Comunal.
Marlene Wagner
Marlene Wagner practices, researches and teaches Architecture guided by transdisciplinarity and transformation at the intersections of theory and practice, design research, feminist and postcolonial critique. As a co-founder of the non-profit architecture practice buildCollective she realized awarded transnational projects of educational, social and technical infrastructures. Marlene has been collaborating with international organizations and institutions, teaching at the Vienna University of Technology, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Art and Design Linz or the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences and has been instrumental in the set-up of an urban mobility lab. She enjoys the design and development of formats and tools for engagement and learning in diverse scale and settings and is part of the Claiming*Spaces Collective at TU Wien, the international research network Decolonising Development and co-founder of the Vienna Architecture Summer School.
https://marlenewagner.online
Marlene Wagner practices, researches and teaches Architecture guided by transdisciplinarity and transformation at the intersections of theory and practice, design research, feminist and postcolonial critique. As a co-founder of the non-profit architecture practice buildCollective she realized awarded transnational projects of educational, social and technical infrastructures. Marlene has been collaborating with international organizations and institutions, teaching at the Vienna University of Technology, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Art and Design Linz or the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences and has been instrumental in the set-up of an urban mobility lab. She enjoys the design and development of formats and tools for engagement and learning in diverse scale and settings and is part of the Claiming*Spaces Collective at TU Wien, the international research network Decolonising Development and co-founder of the Vienna Architecture Summer School.
https://marlenewagner.online