Athena Lecture – Urban Conflicts. Radical Democracy in Architecture and Urban Planning
Author: Gabu Heindl
Tags: #Athena Lecture Series #Parity Talks VIII
Blurb: Introduction: Jennifer Duyne Barenstein. Q&A moderated by Marie Glaser.
The 2022 Athena Lecture was given by architect, urban planner and activist, Prof. Dr. Gabu Heindl. In her lecture “Urban Conflicts. Radical Democracy in Architecture and Urban Planning,” she critically examines the role of planning and architecture in the context of the current global housing crisis and financialization of urban space.
With her book “Stadtkonflikte” Gabu Heindl formulated a radical democratic approach to architecture and urban planning – with a probing look at realized utopias of Red Vienna, through critical illumination of participatory planning, in alliances with social movements. Between political theory, urban planning discourse and intervening practice, she is concerned not only to defend spaces and margins of democracy – especially in their crisis – but to expand them.
Her lecture is about the role of planning and architects in the context of the current global housing crisis and the financialization of urban space.
Prof. Dr. Gabu Heindl is an architect, urban planner and activist in Vienna. She studied in Vienna, Tokyo and Princeton and completed a PhD in philosophy. Her office GABU Heindl Architecture focuses on public space, public buildings, affordable housing, and collaborations in the fields of historical politics and critical artistic practice. From 2013 to 2017 she was chair of the ÖGFA – Austrian Society for Architecture. Gabu Heindl is involved in numerous international publications, including Arch+, Die Architekt, Volume and RIBA The Journal of Architecture. She co-edited “Building Critique. Architecture and its Discontents”, 2019 and is the author of “City Conflicts. Radical Democracy in Architecture and Urban Planning”, 2020 and published among others in . Sie ist International Editor der britischen RIBA Zeitschrift The Journal of Architecture She is a professor of urban design at the Technische Hochschule in Nuremberg and also teaches at the AA | Architectural Association in London.