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A Pedaled Evening at Radlager Vienna

Yesterday, Radlager in Vienna hosted an interesting and inspiring bicycle cultural evening which included art, fashion, music and culinary aspects.
The evening was a welcoming party for the Japanese cycling fashion label PEdALED which will be sold from now on at Radlager in Vienna. The program featured an archery demonstration, films screenings, a book presentation, a really tasteful interpretation of miso soup ("zuppa di miso"), DJs, "the band", a photo exhibition and, of course, a fashion show (with models who really pedaled their bikes, not only walked them ;). All in all a great demonstration about how diverse bicycle cultures can become in Vienna.

Mister Diethard Leopold, president of the Austrian-Japanese society, performed Japanese archery - Kyudo - for the opening of the evening.

The Japanese bow - Yumi - is asymmetrical with a shorter lower end and requires specific skill, codified in the "hassetsu". After releasing the arrow the bow will spin in the archer's hand and the string will stop next to the archer's outer forearm, a movement called "yugaeri". (image: Bernhard Schram)

The Japanese ambassador to Vienna Shigeo Iwatani (to the right) carefully watches the Kyudo performance. (image: Bernhard Schram)

PEdALED's Alice Icardi introducing the Japanese cycling garments to Vienna. (image: Bernhard Schram)

Cycling fashion show featuring PEdALED clothes. (image: Bernhard Schram)

The evening's band "Die Band". (image: Bernhard Schram)

The evening's band "Die Band".

Preparation of 'Zuppa di Miso'.

The PEdALED wear is characterized by the comfortable garments used which was verified by the author wearing the gray jacket to the left in this image.

Thanks to the people who indulged us guests with their creativity and to Radlager and the PEdALED label for hosting this nice event. More of such evenings would do good in Vienna.

Opening 'Jugaad Urbanism' at AIA New York

Today opened the exhibition 'Jugaad Urbanism' at the American Institute of Architects' New York chapter. The exhibition is the first of its kind in the US to elaborate on contemporary Indian urbanism and is accompanied by collateral programs such as a symposium, several panels and a family day, all happening at the AIA NY.

'Jugaad Urbanism' is organized in four sections according to (urban) resources: land, water, energy and transportation and is built up from two perspectives: The 'jugaad' approach, representing urban innovations, fixes and everyday appliances reflecting the meaning of the Hindi word 'jugaad' which refers to an innovative fix, a bending of rules or a new way of using resources. And, the (architectural, urban, landscape) designer's perspective to decide to seek (design) solutions which are informed by these adaptive urban strategies.

'Jugaad urbanism' shows us positive approaches to a lively, sustainable ('green') urban development on the Indian subcontinent, which respect, learn from, and integrate urban 'jugaad' (grassroots) phenomena and mix these with well reflected architectural ingenuity. The resulting design projects manage to tackle pressing urban issues in India in an individual way without overpowering the local stakeholders and thereby lead to solutions and structures of unique beauty and adequacy.

The exhibition is a dense showcase of projects with an inspiring, project-related intelligence and an example for an architectural practice which is becoming more intensively engaged with social complexity and participatory methods. The show itself successfully manages to avoid a romantic view of the designer as savior and negates the (urban development) approach of mere improvement-oriented, quick and superficial fixes to urban issues and specific problems.
It is rather a strong sense of 'togetherness' which is celebrated in the exhibition, witnessing a reciprocal relationship between responsible designers and clients which are fully engaged by the design. It is up to the visitor to take the lesson home for his or her own practice: Why not embracing everyday experience, innovation and wisdom? Thereby producing work which is culturally more embedded, able to truly speak to the users, and, informs their daily lives towards the better.
'Jugaad Urbanism' is opened until May 21st at the American Institute of Architects' New York chapter.

'[re]designing nature' at k/haus Vienna

Currently you can see an interesting exhibition at Vienna's Künstlerhaus. '[re]designing nature' presents 'Current Concepts for Shaping Nature in Art and Landscape Architecture' featuring work of contemporary landscape architects, architects and artists.

The exhibition aims to 'inspire thought about our current relationship to nature, and infuse life into the most recent debates about socially fair, ecologically sustainable, and aesthetically up-to-date environmental design.' [source].

[re]designing nature was initiated by Maria Auböck and curated by Susanne Witzgall, Florian Matzner and Iris Mede. The exhibition in k/haus has just been EXTENDED until 27th of February.

Reading table at the exhibition entrance.

There are as well some nice events scheduled alongside the exhibition:

January 21st, 7 pm: Lecture by Natalie Jeremijenko: 'On engineering biodiversity, improving environmental health and wrestling Rhinocerous Beetles' This event is organized in conjunction with the ÖGFA series 'Solidarity - How do democratic spaces come into existence?' See my short report about it.

Another event is still going to happen:

January 23rd, 3 pm: Artist talk with Regula Dettwiler, Anna Detzlhofer, Jochen Koppensteiner, Christian Phillipp Müller (asked)

Establishing the Bedford-Stuveysant community garden. Ken Smith, New York City.

A view onto 'Ashar macha / Platform of Hope', a small pocket garden integrating a library which serves as a platform for exchange between slum residents and students who work on realizing the project. Khondaker Hasibul Kadir, Dhaka Bangladesh

N55 - 'City Farming Plant Modules, Museum version', 2010.

Peter Latz: Sketches for the amphitheater Ariel Sharon within the Hiriya Landfill Transformation, 2009.

Field Operations with Diller Scofidio + Renfro - 'High Line', 2004-2011. Models of ground structure with benches, 2005.

Lois und Franziska Weinberger - 'Mobile Garden', 2003.

Observatorium - 'Into the Desert', 2010.

Reiner Maria Matsik - 'Urban Wasteland', 2010.

Balmori Associates - 'St. Louis Riverfront', 2005-2015

Vincent Callebaut - 'Physalia Amphibious Garden', 2010.

Metagardens - 'Monstruosa', 2009. Installation from EPS and Drosera sp.

Paula Hayes - 'Living Necklace', 2007

R&Sie(n) - 'Symbiosis Hood', 2009.

Natalie Jeremijenko - 'Urban Space Station, model #001', 2010

Mark Dion - '(Tooley Street Hanging Garden) Vertical Garden', 2006.

Gross.Max - 'Tooley Street Hanging Garden', 2009.

Regula Dettwiler - 'Untitled (Rüdiger)', 2010.

Seeing 'Living Concrete / Carrot City'

I finally managed to visit the exhibition 'Living Concrete/Carrot City' which elaborates on design and planning works related to the topic of urban agriculture. It is still opened until the 15th of December at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, NYC.
'Living Concrete / Carrot City' stems from a dialog between the project 'Carrot City - Designing for Urban Agriculture' at Ryerson University, Toronto and the project 'Living Concrete' at Parsons', Eugene Land College.

In a collaborative, cross-institutional way the exhibition shows:
How increasing public interest in agriculture, food supply and food security influences urban design and how design can facilitate a better urban food system. 'Carrot City'
Design interventions and pedagogy that reconnect people to food production while positively influencing neighborhoods, public health and environment. 'Living Concrete'

'Living Concrete/Carrot City' aims higher than solely providing a nice exhibition and thus created a space of exchange for people and communities which are active and interested in urban agriculture.

Imageboard for food and agriculture related events in NYC to connect stakeholders.

Interactive, non-virtual board with questions and answers related to urban agriculture.

Alongside the exhibition, Parsons hosted a series of public panels to discuss different issues related to urban agriculture. Yesterday I attended the last panel of this series which focused on the role of universities in researching, supporting and employing urban agricultural practices.
The panels were luckily streamed and documented by Parsons' streaming culture project (thank you!) so we can access videos of the 'Living Concrete/Carrot City' panels online.
Additionally, the book 'Carrot City' will be published in March 2011 and provide a prominent amount of the information presented in the exhibition.

Here are some impressions from the exhibition as appetizer and documentation.

'Vacant Lot Grow Bag' by 'what if: projects ltd.'

Map of urban agriculture in Brooklyn, NY. Created by Parsons-students.

'Opportunities for a Green and Edile Middlebrough' from the 'Urban Farming Project'. Bohn and Viljoen Architects and others.

Gardens from the project 'Edible Estates' by Fritz Haeg. Top left image shows the installation of 'Lenape Edible Estate' in Manhattan.

60 Richmond street east co-operative housing in Toronto designed by Teeple architects.

Rendering of the 'Via verde' project Melrose, South Bronx, NYC.

'True Nature Foods Rooftop Victory Garden' in Chicago, IL by Urban Habitat Chicago.

If you are in NYC you still have time until 15th of December to go and visit the exhibition.

Seeing 'Rising Currents' at MOMA

Just in time I visited the 'Rising Currents' exhibition at MOMA. After hearing and reading about the previous research work 'On the Water - Palisade Bay', as well as surfing the rising currents blog, the exhibition was still a surprisingly stunning experience.
Highly aesthetical and visionary design proposals by five teams are presented in the exhibition. Very tactile models and multimedia presentations round up the experience .
I had a great time there and got inspired to see the project sites myself. Landscape architecture or urbanism enthusiast can still visit the exhibition which is opened til 11th of october.
The only limiting factor for spending time in there was the freezingly cold inside temperature. Some potential exists to reduce MOMA's carbon footprint by programming the air condition in a humaine way. ... :)
Please find some pictures below to get a feel for the exhibition.

Zone 0: ARO and dlandstudio