We would like to cordially invite you to attend the opening of our new DFG-funded Research Training Group “Organizing Architectures”.

The Research Training Group focuses on research projects that examine the interplay between architectural production and social processes. How do built or planned structures shape (public) spaces and social dynamics? How do social processes and discourses materialize in architecture? And how does this affect society? This approach is based on a broad understanding of the concept of architecture, which includes not only individual buildings, but also urban ensembles and infrastructures.

The joint initiative of the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Technical University of Darmstadt, the University of Kassel, and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Frankfurt offers an interdisciplinary approach and supports early career researchers with projects in the fields of architectural and social history, sociology, urban planning, media studies, legal history, and human geography.

We would be delighted to welcome you on January 16! Please register via e-mail to wollweber@kunst.uni-frankfurt.de.

Program

Greetings from the Executive Boards
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brüne, Vice President for Research, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Oechsner, Vice President for Research, Technical University of Darmstadt

Welcome by the spokespersons of the Research Training Group
Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank, Technical University of Darmstadt

Protest/Architecture
Lecture by Oliver Elser, Curator of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt am Main

Musical accompaniment
Eduardo Sabella-Trio (double bass: Eduardo Sabella, vocals: Laureen Mobo, piano: Paul Janoschka)

Reception