Vice-Rector for Student and Academic Affairs and Diversity: Assoc. Prof. Mag.phil. Brigitte Felderer
Advisory Board 2023–2025:
Marije Vogelzang (Dordrecht, Netherlands)
Nasrin Mohiti Asli & Giuseppe Grant from orizzontale (Rome, Italy)
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber from Bitter/Weber
(Vienna, Austria)
Visiting Artist WS 2023/24:
Herwig Turk
Visiting Artists
SS 2024:
Leopold Kessler
Urban Environment
Today, more than half of the world
population lives in cities, and according to UN reports another 200,000 people arrive each day. In the next 20 years, cities
around the globe will expand by 1.5 million square kilometres and in 25 years two-thirds of the world population will live
in cities. In this global event we can identify the triggering factors behind tremendous restructuring processes: the transformational
power of the industrial and digital revolution. This development places cities as complex, self-generating environments under
enormous pressure. Through the densification and concentration of the population, economy, capital, and media, as well as
culture and knowledge in urban agglomerations, both their spatial and social fabric are subject to overproportional stress.
Social Design
In order to account for this global development, new concepts are needed that
address the overall process of knowledge production in society. Especially art universities are predestined to formulate these
new, distinct perspectives on the inherent logic of cities and the corresponding dynamics of their processes. Artistic research
can generate links between multifaceted disciplinary expertise and the problems posed by the urban realm. The University of
Applied Arts Vienna (Angewandte) has therefore implemented a new master degree programme dedicated to these challenges that
emerge within urban social systems and the broad spectrum of related issues.
The shaping of reality viewed on the
example of urban agglomerations and contrasted with the urban context of Vienna initially forms both the field of work and
the scale for the realisation of the individual projects.