Crumbling Worlds. Living in Ruins, Repairing Infrastructures

The interdisciplinary symposium with elements from the arts will deal with contemporary ruination and decay. Ruins have long since lost their solemn serenity. They are also no longer perceived as aesthetically pleasing precursors of impending catastrophe or as a medium for reflecting on epherality and transience. Rather, we live in the midst of wars, irreversible climate change, and massive economic and ecological disasters. Ruins are what we live with and by.

CONCEPT: Mathias Fuchs (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), Karin Harrasser (ifk), Daniel Vella (L-Università ta‘ Malta)

PARTICIPANTS (et al.): Paul Dobraszczyk (Bartlett School of Architecture, London), Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford), Susanna Flock (Total Refusal), Emma Fraser (University of Berkeley), Orit Halpern (TU Dresden), Julia Hell (University of Michigan), Thomas Macho (Berlin/Vienna), Leonhard Müllner (Total Refusal), Monika Wagner (Universität Hamburg)