@misc{VidermanKnierbein, author = {Viderman, Tihomir and Knierbein, Sabine}, title = {Reconnecting public space and housing research through affective practice}, series = {Journal of Urban Design}, volume = {23}, journal = {Journal of Urban Design}, number = {6}, issn = {1469-9664}, doi = {10.1080/13574809.2018.1475222}, pages = {843 -- 858}, abstract = {In autumn 2015, activists and refugees in Vienna appropriated train stations for shelter. This paper explores their affective practices in order to reflect on their agency to transform predominant ways of understanding and inhabiting public space. At the place of arrival they made their private domain of everyday struggles a part of public space. In so doing they have produced a powerful means for confronting socio-spatial inequalities. Affective practice can therefore be interpreted as the spatialized critique of alienated conditions of everyday life.}, language = {en} } @misc{VidermanKnierbein, author = {Viderman, Tihomir and Knierbein, Sabine}, title = {Affective urbanism: towards inclusive design praxis}, series = {Urban Design International}, volume = {25}, journal = {Urban Design International}, number = {1}, issn = {1357-5317}, doi = {10.1057/s41289-019-00105-6}, pages = {53 -- 62}, abstract = {This paper conceptualizes affective urbanism as both research framework and praxis, engaging professionals and concerned publics alike in the insurgent making of cities. With its focus on affect and bodily encounters, it taps into the rich knowledge of practices of improvising and inventing in everyday life, which tend to fall outside the realm of discursive and visual representations. An analysis of spatial practices of the collective Plataforma de Afectados Por La Hipoteca in Barcelona illustrates how a mobilization of affects fosters not only individual, but first and foremost a collective capacity to negotiate belonging, appropriate space and contest alienated conditions of everyday life. The argument rests on the hypothesis that affect implicates the ethical engagement with people at places of everyday life, thus producing a medium and means for transgressing socio-spatial divides and challenging practices of exclusion, othering and dispossession. The value of this kind of work does not necessarily lie in the quality of conceived or materialized design, but rather in enacting an inclusive and empathic design praxis which connects to people's multiple lived spaces and cultivates lived space of deep and caring social relations.}, language = {en} } @misc{Viderman, author = {Viderman, Tihomir}, title = {On affective pedagogy for studying urban form}, series = {AESOP 2019 Conference - Book of Abstracts}, journal = {AESOP 2019 Conference - Book of Abstracts}, publisher = {IUAV}, address = {Venice}, isbn = {978-88-99243-92-0}, pages = {835}, abstract = {The study of the built urban form anchors abstract conceptual and analytical thinking about space to a tangible form of visual representations (such as maps, ground plans and diagrams). While enabling even the most complex forms and processes to be encapsulated by visualisation strategies, such an endeavour also streamlines and homogenizes space, largely disregarding asymmetries in power relations and experiences within hierarchically produced lived space. My contribution introduces a pedagogical approach which aims to extend the domain of the study of urban form beyond the assumed rational objectivity of visual analysis and behavioural methodologies. It draws from a relational-material epistemology and affect theories as promising analytical resources for enhancing a productive and ethical relationship between everyday spaces of urban inhabitants and the praxis of urban design and planning. While giving attention to material and affective notions of lived space and spatial praxis, in particular those which are difficult to convey in words and visuals, this epistemology opens disciplinary fields to a range of explorative methodologies and experimental methods which nurture transdisciplinary and empathic learning. Based on experience of a two-week workshop in Porto, Portugal, this contribution discusses how empowering students to take active part in creating learning methods reveals and renders urban morphology a political project and lived space. By developing methods mindful of lived, cultural, social and material differences in urban space the students introduced the politics of materiality and affectivity as key dimensions of the production of shared places of ethical interaction with the other. The relevance of such an approach lies in developing an inclusive perspective as regards everyday spatial praxis of urban inhabitants: their collective capacity to negotiate belonging, to appropriate space and to contest structural constraints through practices of improvising and inventing that are part of everyday life.}, language = {en} } @misc{VidermanBerc, author = {Viderman, Tihomir and Berc, Dafne}, title = {What meaning for modernity? Politics of socialist heritage in Croatia}, series = {Three Decades of Post-socialist Transition. Conference Programme}, journal = {Three Decades of Post-socialist Transition. Conference Programme}, editor = {Čamprag, Nebojša and Suri, Anshika}, address = {Darmstadt}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-86358}, pages = {49}, abstract = {A visibility of Yugoslavia's architectural heritage has over the last 30 years been built within spaces of representation which have appeared fragmented across successor countries and rather vaguely situated within their institutional frameworks. Owing to these spaces of representation, a wide range of various aspects of Yugoslav urbanization from different epistemological perspectives have been pushed into the global narrative of modernity. However, little is known about how exactly these spaces of representation have been instituted during and after the breakup of Yugoslavia and what kind of meaning and aesthetics they inscribe into socialist heritage. In order to critically reflect on these spaces, this contribution relates the curatorial and activist praxis that discursively evokes and recreates socialist modernity to contemporary processes of capitalist urbanization. The hypothesis of this contribution is that such a praxis has a very territorial dimension as it promotes a particular aesthetic of urbanization. While inscribing into the representations of socialist heritage celebrated notions of localized differences and informality of everyday life, they override the heritage of macroeconomic and spatial master-planning of territory. Based on qualitative content analysis and ethnographic methods of participatory observation and interviews, the activist and curatorial praxis in Croatia will be scrutinized concerning both the contents and funding, to understand how it inscribes a particular perspective on the political and professional role of planning and design professionals, both in socialist heritage and the city politics. The two key moments are recognized in the praxis: (1) promoting socialist modernity as an emancipatory project while smoothing out ambiguities regarding colonial dimensions of the geopolitics of inequality, thus contributing to (2) the dissolution of the state-controlled planning framework in favour of a patchwork of institutions, institutionalized NGOs, and (global) market players.}, language = {en} } @misc{Viderman, author = {Viderman, Tihomir}, title = {Quarantine: Alienated Space by Expert Knowledge}, series = {Space and Culture}, volume = {23}, journal = {Space and Culture}, number = {3}, issn = {1552-8308}, doi = {10.1177/1206331220938644}, pages = {259 -- 264}, abstract = {Based on an ethnographic account of a transitory space of an aircraft under lockdown, this article reflects on quarantine as the product of expert technocratic knowledge, which blurs fine-grained social moments and relationships to create a homogenous functional space. It argues that space under lockdown is a form of a functional alienated space produced and conditioned by non-transparent management mechanisms that are legitimized by seemingly routinized protocols and abstract representations. While this argument is not optimistic as regards capacity building for political or social change, it identifies current spatial configurations as a unique opportunity for experiencing how representations of space prevail over (struggles in) everyday life.}, language = {en} } @techreport{TerletskyWeidnerViderman, author = {Terletsky, Maksym and Weidner, Silke and Viderman, Tihomir}, title = {Citymakers Lviv, Course on integrated urban development}, publisher = {City Institute}, address = {Lviv}, pages = {79}, language = {de} } @incollection{TrogalViderman, author = {Trogal, Kim and Viderman, Tihomir}, title = {Introduction: Everyday Struggles and Contestations Around Care}, series = {Care and the City: Encounters with Urban Studies}, booktitle = {Care and the City: Encounters with Urban Studies}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-003-03153-6}, doi = {10.4324/9781003031536-13}, pages = {103 -- 108}, abstract = {While acknowledging that care creates social bonds and glues societies together, this chapter discusses the value of care and struggles to provide care as that simultaneously as revealing the ing of alienated conditions in which they occur. It The discussion contributes a spatial perspective on the crossovers of care and caring relations by casting a light on how care materializes in urban space. We argue that it is the struggle of distribution across the private-public boundary and its negotiation that makes care, as well as struggles and contestations over care, tangible. As capitalism cuts away at social relationships and reduces capacities to care, it also abstracts care as a commodified category, which it then materializes in urban space as a provision or service whose task is to simultaneously ensure the reproduction of society and consolidate asymmetries in power relations. In such an environment, we argue that affective caring relations matter all the more because they build agency and agency to contest.}, language = {en} } @incollection{GabauerKnierbeinCohenetal., author = {Gabauer, Angelika and Knierbein, Sabine and Cohen, Nir and Lebuhn, Henrik and Trogal, Kim and Viderman, Tihomir and Haas, Tigran}, title = {Care, Uncare, and the City}, series = {Care and the City: Encounters with Urban Studies}, booktitle = {Care and the City: Encounters with Urban Studies}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-003-03153-6}, doi = {10.4324/9781003031536-2}, pages = {3 -- 14}, language = {en} } @incollection{VidermanKnierbeinKraenzleetal., author = {Viderman, Tihomir and Knierbein, Sabine and Kr{\"a}nzle, Elina and Frank, Sybille and Roskamm, Nikolai and Wall, Ed}, title = {Urban Space Unsettled: The Unraveling of Routines, Temporalities and Contestations in Urban Studies}, series = {Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations}, booktitle = {Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {New York}, isbn = {9781000799620}, doi = {10.4324/9780429290237-1}, pages = {1 -- 15}, abstract = {Contemporary urban space appears to be uncertain, presented with challenges and filled with threats. Rather than seeing this development as a transition from stable to unstable patterns of urban life, this chapter frames a proposition: Urban space has always been an unsettled ground unfolding through the sedimentation of routines, temporalities and contestations. In this chapter 'unsettled' is introduced as an open and speculative analytical lens, involving synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and interweaving social, cultural and political readings of urban life. With the focus on contingent and troubled relationships among (collective) bodies, space and society, 'unsettled' is identified as a manifestation, motivation, cause and target of social change, which is consolidated, modulated and contested across multiple dimensions of urban life. It may stretch or redefine social orders, urban infrastructures and everyday life, while unlocking potentials for moments in history to turn out differently.}, language = {en} } @incollection{VidermanFrank, author = {Viderman, Tihomir and Frank, Sybille}, title = {Urban Routines: An Introduction}, series = {Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations}, booktitle = {Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations}, editor = {Viderman, Tihomir and Knierbein, Sabine and Kr{\"a}nzle, Elina and Frank, Sybille and Roskamm, Nikolai and Wall, Ed}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {New York}, isbn = {9780367258610}, doi = {10.4324/9780429290237-3}, pages = {19 -- 25}, abstract = {Urban routines make visible contradictory processes of urbanization of society, on different spatial scales, from the individual body to planetary processes of urbanization. As recurring practices, they are constitutive of both (settled) social orders and (unsettling) subversive or revolutionary moments. In this chapter urban routines are scrutinized as sets of doings, sayings, tasks and projects through which individuals, collectives and institutions tacitly or purposefully create and balance tensions between settling and unsettling aspects of urban life. While routines embody urban dwellers' endeavor to stabilize and maintain their living environments, they also enable subversive attempts to unsettle social and spatial dynamics across a plurality of binary pairs, such as what is included and what is excluded, what is present and what is absent. Therefore, urban routines fix and unlock, disturb and are disturbed, invent and are invented anew.}, language = {en} } @misc{VidermanFloresdeLeonWeidneretal., author = {Viderman, Tihomir and Flores de Le{\´o}n, Rafael Maximiliano and Weidner, Silke and Ringler, Dominik and Grebe, Anna and Kaufmann, Gerd}, title = {Unsettling youth participation in relational space and commons : case study Lusatia}, series = {Tracce Urbane}, journal = {Tracce Urbane}, number = {17}, publisher = {Sapienza Universit{\`a} Editrice}, address = {Rome}, issn = {2532-6562}, doi = {10.13133/2532-6562/19116}, pages = {130 -- 154}, abstract = {This paper examines youth participation in structural transformation in Lusatia, a post-coal region in eastern Germany. It argues that institutional frameworks rely on territorial and linear logics of participation that do not resonate with those they are meant to engage. Drawing on spatial theory and the commons, a relational perspective is proposed to explain the disjunction between scripted participatory formats and the contingent, affective, and situated ways in which young people relate to space and the future. While institutions and research often emphasize access, representation, and impact, this paper foregrounds empirical insights that show how participation frequently fails to engage with the multiple and uneven rhythms of everyday life. Reframing participation in relational terms opens a contingent terrain for more situated engagement with futures as at once inherited, envisioned, forged, enacted, and contested.}, language = {en} }