Lecture series in winter: Wednesdays, 6 p.m.
The invention of reality
The "post-factual" refers to a way of thinking and acting for which facts have become irrelevant. In the political arena, this ranges from embellishing narratives to framing and outright lies. However, it is always about a narrative, which is only sometimes a distraction from the essentials. Emotions have always played a central role in politics. It has never been any different.
In clarifying this thesis, it may be helpful to look at the "image". After all, it is often perceived as a "representation of reality". In architecture, too, the image was never just a representation, neither of the built nor of the unbuilt. It has always been an independent medium that perhaps influences the discourse more than the architecture itself.
The exciting relationship between architecture and image will be the subject of the lecture series in the winter semester 24/25 at fatuk, in various forms and media. These include art, photography, visualization and publishing. Guests include the photographer and publicist Erica Overmeer from Amsterdam, Venice and Berlin, the image creator Olivier Campagne from Paris, the publishing, curating and building collective Something Fantastic around Julian Schubert, Elena Schütz and Leonard Streich from Berlin as well as the publishing, writing, building and photographing architects Ellena Ehrl & Tibor Bielicky from EHRL BIELICKY architects in Zurich.
The lecture series at fatuk takes place every Wednesday at 6 pm in room 106.
- November 27: Something Fantastic
- December 11: Erica Overmeer
- January 15: Ehrl Bielicky Architects
- February 05: Olivier Campagne
REIHE EINS!
Reihe Eins is the first student-organized lecture series at RPTU's architecture department in Kaiserslautern (fatuk) in building one. We look forward to welcoming all students, professors, architects, friends, acquaintances and interested parties to the lectures at the teahouse from the early evening in the summer semester 2024. There will also be a livestream. Code: R:Eins2024
Tools for a shared city. On a new direction in urban discourse
architectural tuesday in the Summer semester 2024
Against the backdrop of current demographic and social developments and in view of the current environmental and climate crisis, questions arise in architecture about generation-appropriate, equal opportunity and inclusive access to space as a resource, as the primary task of spatial production. A critical spatial practice can track down, transform and make visible the fragile places of the city, the places where participation and involvement in city-making are possible, places that give a sense of belonging and stability and that are potentially under threat today.
How do we develop adequate built living spaces that give space and expression to individuals and communities alike? How does a city grow through a collective memory? What urban expression is there for social and solidarity-based togetherness?
The lecture series focuses on virulent debates that shift and determine community life in urban space: Diversity, land issues, care for the building stock and for the urban climate. The speakers will talk about instruments that are essential for the development of community-oriented urban and spatial production.
Curated and organized by Prof. Dr. Adria Daraban, Frédéric Schnee, Sabine Schmidt. Graphic: akaMalo.
INAUGURAL LECTURES
fatuk lectures
This year, we are delighted to welcome five newly appointed colleagues:
Andreas Winkels, Eva Stricker, Adria Daraban, Boris Milla and Susanne Frank -
together with Alexander Bartscher, who joined the team in 2022, our professoriate is finally complete again in terms of numbers.
The new members have already been introduced in interviews over the course of the year - now they are giving their inaugural lectures on three evenings.
COME AS YOU ARE
As part of her Klara Marie Fassbender Visiting Professorship 2023, Christiane Fath (Berlin) is curating a prominent international symposium on diversity in architecture at fatuk. Following a compact seminar in May and extensive research, the CAYA student group has invited exemplary role models.
It is about the approachability and visibility of role models as well as the perception of colleagues who follow their own exemplary path: in teaching, in practice, within an appreciative professional culture that is intended to provide orientation and motivation for prospective architects.
In addition to this symposium, the conception and realization of an exhibition in the Architekturgalerie Kaiserslautern as well as a summarizing, editorial magazine CAYA#01 in October 2023 are also planned.
CLICK HERE to go to the CAYA homepage
