empathetic exchange
Oct.24, 5-8 pm ///AIL / Otto Wagner-Postsparkasse / Vienna /// spacex townhall meeting on how to take action. moderation of the panel dicsussion with Mel Jordan (Coventry University), Julienne Lorz (University of Applied Arts Vienna), Barbara Putz-Plecko (former Head of the Dept. Art and Communicative Practice, University of Applied Arts Vienna), Cornelia Offergeld (Public Art Vienna), Paul Rajakovics (transparadiso, Vienna), and othersPerformances, discussions and presentations: The EU-research project SPACEX responds to the troubling rise of populist nationalism and conflict in European societies by engaging new publics and forging a culture that embraces diversity, difference, and discursive exchange within cities, towns and urban sites. SPACEX proposes that inventing new and inclusive ways of living together, requires the implementation of new transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral practices and methods, that connect artistic-spatial practice with cultural sociology, cultural policy, critical pedagogies and behavioural economics. The SPACEX Townhall Meeting in Vienna is a major public event at the final stage of SPACEX and focuses on Empathetic Exchange as vital topic of SPACEX: To discuss and make the goals of SPACEX tangible, for counteracting right wing demagogies in Europe and enhancing democratic values through artistic and socially engaged strategies and projects of art and architecture. Especially in the perspective of our turmoiled political situation in Europe, this event and the engagement of SPACEX altogether is more relevant than ever. Empathetic Exchange will produce performative situations for engaging and addressing
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