Introduced by James O’Leary, Barbara Holub unpacks artistic strategies like the production of desires, macro-utopias or anticipatory fictions, as a basis for programmes which counteract urban developments predominantly driven by economic interests.
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Streamed live on The Bartlett School of Architecture’s YouTube channel, this event will be a discussion between host James O’Leary, student co-host Lia Mazzari and speaker Barbara Holub.
This event forms part of The Bartlett International Lectures Spring 2022.
This spring, each of the International Lectures will be curated by one of the school’s programmes to inspire, invent, imagine, and provoke. This event is curated by Situated Practice MA.
Barbara Holub is an artist, researcher and curator. She founded transparadiso in Vienna in 1999 with architect and urbanist Paul Rajakovics as a transdisciplinary practice between art, architecture, urbanism and research. She directed the artistic research project ‘Planning Unplanned. Can Art Have a Function? Towards a New Function of Art in Society’ (Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Art and Design, 2010-2013). She was Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2014); lectured at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)/ School of Art and Design (1997), Konstfack, Stockholm (2018), etc.; visiting scientist at HafenCity University, Hamburg (2017). Barbara was president of the Secession Vienna (2006-2007); serves on international juries and boards, such as the ‘Innovation Fund for Culture in Public Space’, Stuttgart (2018-); Art & the Public Sphere Journal, UK (2010-); dérive – magazine for urban research, Vienna (2002-). She is the recipient of the Austrian National Art Award (2018) and Otto-Wagner-Award for Urban Design (2007). Currently, she directs the flagship project ‘WE PARAPOM!’ for Chemnitz 2025/ European Capital of Culture.
