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Agonistic Assemblies: On The Spatial Politics of Horizontality
Markus Miessen (ed.)
Hosted by Parkhotel Mondschein in collaboration with unibz.
Catchphrase: "If we understand assembly as a form of spatial gathering, and the bonfire as the prehistoric space of assembly, what constitutes its contemporary equivalent?"
Guests and interlocutors
Markus Miessen (Studio Miessen/ Cultures of Assembly, Strada Montana/ Luxembourg)
Barbara Casavecchia (Mousse magazine, Milan)
Lisa Mazza & Simone Mair (BAU institute for contemporary arts and ecology, Bolzano)
Katharina Volgger (architect, Berlin/ Bressanone)
Free Entry at the Luna Bar.
The Talk will be held in English.
Agonistic Assemblies asks: how can spaces—both physical and virtual—be envisaged to create publics? How is collectivity and society being generated spatially and in terms of policy? How do we “practice” society as a bodily, spatial form, and how does this practice contribute to spatial justice? Are there specific spatial settings that can intensify these practices? What kind of spatial design can we imagine as platforms for change?
Markus Miessen is an architect and writer, director of Studio Miessen, and in 2021 was appointed Professor of Urban Regeneration at the University of Luxembourg, where he holds the Chair of the City of Esch. Miessen has previously taught at the Architectural Association, London, the Berlage Institute Rotterdam, has been a Harvard GSD Fellow, and has held professorships at Städelschule, Frankfurt, and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received his PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, London, supervised by Eyal Weizman. The initiator of the Participation tetralogy, his work revolves around questions of critical spatial practice, institution building, and spatial politics. As a spatial consultant, he currently works with The Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism. He previously worked with the European Commission, non-governmental organisations, the Republic of Slovenia during their presidency of the EU council, as well as numerous cultural and art institutions worldwide. Amongst many other books and writings, Miessen is the author of “The Nightmare of Participation” and “Crossbenching: Towards Participation as Critical Spatial Practice”. He has edited volumes such as “Para-Platforms: on the spatial politics of right-wing populism”, and “The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict”. Together with Nikolaus Hirsch, he is the editor of the book series “Critical Spatial Practice”. Miessen’s new book “Agonistic Assemblies (On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality) was published by Sternberg Press in February 2024.
Agonistic Assemblies: On The Spatial Politics of Horizontality
Markus Miessen (ed.)
Hosted by Parkhotel Mondschein in collaboration with unibz.
Catchphrase: "If we understand assembly as a form of spatial gathering, and the bonfire as the prehistoric space of assembly, what constitutes its contemporary equivalent?"
Guests and interlocutors
Markus Miessen (Studio Miessen/ Cultures of Assembly, Strada Montana/ Luxembourg)
Barbara Casavecchia (Mousse magazine, Milan)
Lisa Mazza & Simone Mair (BAU institute for contemporary arts and ecology, Bolzano)
Katharina Volgger (architect, Berlin/ Bressanone)
Free Entry at the Luna Bar.
The Talk will be held in English.
Agonistic Assemblies asks: how can spaces—both physical and virtual—be envisaged to create publics? How is collectivity and society being generated spatially and in terms of policy? How do we “practice” society as a bodily, spatial form, and how does this practice contribute to spatial justice? Are there specific spatial settings that can intensify these practices? What kind of spatial design can we imagine as platforms for change?
Markus Miessen is an architect and writer, director of Studio Miessen, and in 2021 was appointed Professor of Urban Regeneration at the University of Luxembourg, where he holds the Chair of the City of Esch. Miessen has previously taught at the Architectural Association, London, the Berlage Institute Rotterdam, has been a Harvard GSD Fellow, and has held professorships at Städelschule, Frankfurt, and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received his PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, London, supervised by Eyal Weizman. The initiator of the Participation tetralogy, his work revolves around questions of critical spatial practice, institution building, and spatial politics. As a spatial consultant, he currently works with The Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism. He previously worked with the European Commission, non-governmental organisations, the Republic of Slovenia during their presidency of the EU council, as well as numerous cultural and art institutions worldwide. Amongst many other books and writings, Miessen is the author of “The Nightmare of Participation” and “Crossbenching: Towards Participation as Critical Spatial Practice”. He has edited volumes such as “Para-Platforms: on the spatial politics of right-wing populism”, and “The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict”. Together with Nikolaus Hirsch, he is the editor of the book series “Critical Spatial Practice”. Miessen’s new book “Agonistic Assemblies (On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality) was published by Sternberg Press in February 2024.
