The group exhibition of the Social Design – Arts as Urban Innovation program offers a critical, multi-perspectival view of existential subjects such as the struggle for vital resources or the mechanisms of today’s dramatic war reporting.
 

“The projects encourage us not to allow democratic securities to degenerate into privileges: access to water, to functioning urban infrastructure like waste management, access to green spaces and, quite fundamentally, to common property. The Social Design Studio commits itself to big questions and deeply felt responsibilities, to a – sometimes tiring – reality check, all related to the existential claim of public spaces for all. Therefore, artistic approaches and differing forms of artistic practice in productive combination with methods from critical urbanism are needed, applied and continuously sharpened, in co-creation with involved, concerned or addressed people.“ (Brigitte Felderer for the Social Design Studio, University of Applied Arts Vienna)

With works by: Adva Eshel, Judith Haslöwer, Omry Batkilin (“pla/y/ce”), Dila Demircan Özer, Nazgol Sobhani (“Sweeping under the Carpet”), Juan Vértiz Márquez, Paul Chiwona, Elisabeth Utz, Sofia Zorzi (“Further Exploration of the Narratives of Water”), Orest Yaremchuk, Joy Hsu, Réka Novák (“Pixelated Truth”), Dora Medveczky, Charlotte Schneider, Anton Posch (“Woodstock”), and Gala Kuckhoff, Keith Bonnici, Lukas Lex, Lukas Weinlein (“Institut für urbane Wagnisse”)
Exhibition production: Maja-Iskra Vilotijevic