My place – Their place – Our place

In space of Vienna’s 5th district (Margareten) bachelor students at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space of Vienna University of Technology investigated how different cultural groups negotiate their identities and sense of place in the contemporary city, as well as how knowledge is generated from everyday experience in public space. The multidisciplinary, international group engaged in participatory action research to explore points of cross-cultural contact and exchange, with the aim of contributing to the debate on participatory, integrative and inclusive planning for diverse urban societies.

The resulting radio play is composed of five projects which combine the investigation of ‘social realities’ with the mental exploration of practices related to ‘social imaginaries’ of comfort zones in public space. These projects reflect on the concepts of the familiar and unfamiliar in relation to students’ own ‘comfort zones’, and further explore comfort zones of other people and social groups in order to investigate ways through which public spaces can engage diverse users and urban dwellers in negotiating and bridging their differences. The radio play attempts to answer how we can approach difference in public space sensitively. The contributions cast a light on mundane practices of regular customers in a neighbourhood bar, spaces of people who work in Margareten, children’s spaces, as well as on spaces of extremely marginalized homeless people and drug addicts.

Authors: Regina Altabas Artigas, Benjamin Bergmann, Christina Biret, Martin Fellner, Dominik Hoelzl, Matilde Igual, Maximilian Jaeger, Evelyn-Ingrid Kocsis, Thomas Leimer, Jesus Lopez Baeza, Alejandro Pealver, Stefanie Simic, Moritz Starzer, Elia Stefan, Sarah Steiner, Karin Stiefelmeyer, Laurentius Terzic, Javier Torres Soler, Simone Viljoen, Anna Weinzinger, Michael Winkler, under supervision of the Teaching Team 2013: Jeff Hou, Sabine Knierbein, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara and Tihomir Viderman.
Executive producer: Lale Rodgarkia-Dara

SKuOR - Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (Department for Spatial Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology) develops a novel perspective on public spaces and cultural practices in Vienna, advocating an understanding of public space as relational space, which encompasses both physical arrangements and social space. Its research and academic-level teaching are directed at exploring how urban planning and different cultural practices can strengthen public spaces as social spaces and enhance social exchange. http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at/

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