SPATIAL PRACTICES AND HOUSING IN FRANKFURT

The workshop has been conceived in the scope of a Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program. It integrates four partner institutions from Portugal (ISCTE), Spain (ETSAM-UPM), France (ENSA Normandie) and Germany (Goethe-Universität), while offering the opportunity for students and scholars to participate in an intensive learning project within an interdisciplinary and multicultural team. This project brings the question of housing into prominence and the city of Frankfurt serves as point of departure for ample discussions on contemporary spatial housing practices.

OBJECTIVES

This project explores the various ways in which contemporary housing practices have been built, thematized, debated and mediated. It moreover calls for a multi-lenses approach, which covers from questions of intersectionality, human rights and environment.

It has been conceived together with a series of lectures that invites a diverse group of guests to examine Housing in between architectural production, the historical, socio-political and territorial context, the heritage and cultural making processes, as well as the public space and the public debate.

The result is an interdisciplinary approach, which provides the workshop participants a series of perspectives and positions from artists, art historians, architects, urban planners, landscape designers, sociologists, curators and media studies scholars. In this sense, this BIP includes city walks, archival visits, group activities, students’ presentations, exercises with printed and digital material, and discussions with guest lecturers.

This BIP strongly benefits from an ample network of collaborators based in the Rhein-Main institutions, whose work provides meaningful insights and contribution to the project. Particularly relevant is the collaboration with members of the CCSA, the Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität, and the DFG-Research Training Group “Societal Transformation and Spatial Materialization of Housing.”

HOSTING INSTITUTION

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Art History Department, the Chair of Architectural History: Carsten Ruhl, Daniela Ortiz dos Santos, Cecilia Heller and Martina Wollweber

Global Office, International University Partnerships Coordinator Erasmus Without Paper: Ronja Jaßmann and Natalia Velosa Ruiz

PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal (ISCTE): Marta Sequeira, Paulo Tormenta Pinto, João Ventura Trindade, and Paulo Goinhas

Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Normandie, France (ENSA): Caroline Maniaque

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Spain (UPM): David Escudero and Rodrigo de la O

SPECIAL GUESTS & PARTICIPANTS

Tim Benton from Open University; Hans H. Drexler from Universität Siegen/DGJ Architektur Frankfurt; Katrin Kolk, Tim Pickartz and Tizian Holzbach from Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität; Anne Scheinhardt, Katja Leiskau and Oliver Elser from the Deutsches Architekturmuseum; Inês Lobo and Ricardo Carvalho from Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa