articles/book contributions
2023 «Traces of beginnings, endings and (dis)continuities within my own post-colonial archive» in Unearthing Traces –Dismantling imperialist entanglements of archives, landscapes and the built environment, Eds. D. Bertschi,J. Lafontaine Carboni, N. Bathla, EPFL Press &CAN Centre d‘Art de Neuchatel,ISBN 9782889155507, DOI https://doi.org/10.55430/6638VA01
2023 «Zwischennutzung» in Dulden – Die deutsche Rechtsschreibung, God´s Entertainment, Künstler*innenkollektiv Wien, AT
2022 «Decolonizing DesignBuild? – Constructions Sites of Unlearning!» – trajectory translated into conversation with GAM, in GAM18 Beyond the Institution: Transforming the Learning Environment in Architectural Education, Eds. Petra Petterson, Christina Linorthner, jovis, Berlin, ISBN 9783868598582, DOI: 10.1515/9783868599947-006
2021 «Architecture and Development in Africa» in Architectural Guide Sub-Saharan Africa, Volume 7 Southern Africa: Between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, Eds. Philipp Meuser, Adil Dalbai, DOM publishers Berlin, ISBN 9783869220871
2021 «Kulturen des Lernens: Nach der Pandemie ist vor der Pandemie?» in future.LAB Magazin#15, TU Wien
2020 «Call to Action: Schutz für Nonhle Mbuthuma!» in Indaba 108/20, SADOCC Documentation and Cooperation Centre Southern Africa, Vienna
2019 «Verbundenheit/Bond» in Mzamba Hall Together, FH Kärnten, Spittal a.d. Drau
2018 «Mzamba Bridge, Eastern Cape South Africa 2015», in Building for People with Low Income, World Architecture Magazin, ISSN10024832
2016 «Holding Action – a view on the bridge with a view» in bridgingMZAMBA – eine Brücke an der Wild Coast, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, archipendium, ISBN9783940874979
2014 «Climate – Community – School» in schapMzamba, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, archipendium, ISBN9783940874948
2014 «Johannesburg regeneration 20 years after Apartheid» in Indaba 81/14, SADOCC Documentation and Cooperation Centre Southern Africa, Vienna
2013 «The collective creation of space» in Ithuba – Ein Kindergarten in Südafrika, ZAHW Winterthur, ISBN9783721208801
2011 «Poverty in the Townships – cause and coping» and «Development in Magagula Heights» in schap 2011, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, archipendium, ISBN9783950217667
2011 «A place under the Sun for Everyone – formal and non-formal spatial practices in Cosmo City, Johannesburg» in dérive 44, Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung, ISSN16088131
2009 «Evaluation», «The job of a job captain» and «Procurement, supplier and local labour», in Target sharing skills – Lesedi Nhahle, ae Edition Architektur, ISBN9783941145023
2007 «Architecture Cares – Interview with Prof. Walter Schicho», «MMOA Massive Mulitplayer Online Architecture», Ofrum 03 Sonderedition Architektur und Bauforum 323 07, Wirtschaftsverlag Wien
book chapters
2020 «Concrete Does not Cry: Interdisciplinary Reflections on and Beyond Housing» / N. Sungura, M. Wagner, M. Barker-Ciganikova und K. Rüther in The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa, Kirsten Rüther, Martina Barker-Ciganikova, Daniela Waldburger und Carl-Philipp Bodenstein, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, eISBN: 9783110601183 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110601183-008 (open peer review)
conference papers
2024 «After the pandemic is before the pandemic. On cultures of learning in physical, digital and social spaces via the transdisciplinary action research SAVEing SPACES“ M.Wagner et.al. in: Stories of Situated Pedagogies in Architecture and…,International Workshop Proceedings Book 3-4 October 2023 Istanbul,Türkiye. Eds. A.Şenel, B. Almaç, et.al., SArPe Network Socially situated Architectural Pedagogies, İTÜ Yayınevi, ISBN 9789755616452, 28-31(double-blind peer-to-peer review)
2019 «Erollin› on green: A case study on eco-feedback tools for emobility» F. Cech, M. Wagner in: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies – Transforming Communities, ACM NY, USA 2019, ISBN: 9781450371629; DOI:10.1145/3328320.3328402
2019 «Innovation im Mobilitätssharing – Einsatz von partizipativen Methoden» V. Sodl, L. Dörrzapf, M. Habiger, H. Tellioglu, M. Wagner, M. Berger / in: REAL CORP 2019: IS THIS THE REAL WORLD? Perfect Smart Cities vs. Real Emotional Cities, M. Schrenk et al. (ed.); CORP – Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning, Wien, 2019, ISBN: 9783950417371, 431 – 441
2019 «Living Labs Reconsidered for Community Building and Maintenance» H. Tellioglu, M. Wagner, M. Habiger, G. Mikusch / in: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies – Transforming Communities, ACM NY, USA 2019, ISBN: 978145037162-9; DOI:10.1145/3328320.3328407
2018 «Architecture as a tool for social transformative change?», Poster Presentation, Abstract in Kolloquium für DoktorandInnen der Fakultät Architektur und Raumplanung, future.lab TU Wien
2018 «eGoli: Place of Gold – Learning from Johannesburg’s rapid Urbanisation, Transformation and Regeneration? Stadtteilaufwertung zwischen formellen und nicht-formellen Ökonomien und Raumpraktiken»,in Urban Transformations and Qualities of Life in the Growing City: Book of Abstracts, University of Applied Sciences FH Campus, ISBN9783902614438
2017 «A community driven implementation process of a pedestrian bridge, Eastern Cape, SA», M. Wagner, Case Study, Architecture Connects. Association of Architectural Educators 4th international peer reviewed conference, Oxford Brookes University UK, ISBN9780992929978
2017 «Bridging Mzamba – Perspectives on trans-disciplinary and cross-cultural implementation process», M. Wagner, Tell a story – Conference, Chair of Conceptual and Structural Design, TU Berlin Foot Bridge, 2017, Book of Abstracts, ISBN97839818968, DOI:10.24904/footbridge2017.09564
2016 «Bridging Mzamba – a community driven implementation process of suspension bridge in Eastern Cape, South Africa», M. Wagner, P. Nigst, SFC 2016 Sustainable Futures Conference Architecture and Construction in the Global South, Book of Abstracts, ISBN9780620722896
2016 «SCHAP !- School and Production – A sustainable full-scale approach in architectural education», M. Wagner, P. Nigst, SFC 2016 – Sustainable Futures Conference – Architecture and Construction in the Global South, Book of Abstracts, ISBN9780620722896
2015 «A place under the sun for everyone formal and non-formal spatial practices in Cosmo City, Johannesburg» City Portraits: Johannesburg, International Conference, School of Doctorate Studies, IUAV University of Venice, IT, Book of Abstracts, iuav.it
2014 «A place under the sun for everyone: basis for planning through the analysis of formal and non-formal space practices in the housing area Cosmo City» Southern African City Studies Conference Vol. 7, CUBES, ACC, University of the Witwatersrand, SA, Proceedings, wits.ac.za
2014 «Maintaining a design-build project – Reflections on social architecture, sustainability and role conflicts”, XXV World Congress of Architecture, UIA 2014 Durban, Book of Abstracts, ISBN9780869707838 (double-blind peer review)
2014 «A sustainable alternative through process orientated modular construction system with straw-light-clay”, XXV World Congress of Architecture, UIA 2014 Durban, Book of Abstracts, ISBN978086970783 (double-blind peer review)
2014 «A place under the Sun for Everyone – formal and non-formal spatial practice» XXV World Congress of Architecture, UIA 2014 Durban, Book of Abstracts, ISBN978086970783 (double-blind peer review)
2013 «Sustainable Use of Cement – Case study of lightclay filling for modular construction system”, International Conference on Advances in Cement and Concrete Technology in Africa – ACCTA, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Book of Abstracts, Eds. Herbert Chidozie Uzoegbo and Wolfram Schmidt ISBN9783981536034 (peer review)
project publications/catalogues
2023 Hasnerstraße Sommeroase, Diese Straße wäre für alle da, skug – Musikkultur, 0905, skug.at
2022 para-site*/Tischgenoss:innen, agri_culture installation, archive, screenings, interventions, discussion, ed. Lorena Tabares Salamanca, Wienwoche 2022, AT
2018 Mapping ‹Social Architecture’, MAGAZIN space for contemporary architecture, Breite Gasse Publishers, ISBN/EAN: 9783950411140, Vienna, AT architektur-im-magazin.at
2018 Alternative Certificate in CityFactory: New Work. New Design, IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna, ISBN9783950335255
2016 bridgingMzamba, Schweizer Ingenieurbaukunst, usic, sia, espazium, ISBN9783952358344
2016 bridgingMzamba, Le Moniteur architecture AMC, ISSN09984194
2016 bridgingMzamba, Blue Award International Student Competition for Sustainable Architecture, Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design, Vienna UT, ISBN9783902816368
2014 buildCollective various projects, in Spot on: Austria, Building for a better world, AzW Vienna, ISBN9783950383102
2013 buildCollective Classroom unit 5-7, in Afritecture – Building Social Change, Andres Lepik, Hatje Cantz Verlag, ISBN9783775736619
2013 RWTH Aachen Designed in Aachen – Built in South Africa, ARCH+ 211/212, ISSN05873452
2009 Training créche in South Africa, DOMUS 927, ISSN00125377
2009 Orangefarm Project 3: emmanuel creché, in 10+ Years 100+ Buildings – Architecture in a democratic South Africa, Bell Roberts Print and Publishing, ISBN9780981420035
2006 +Cover Art, Orangefarm Project 3: emmanuel day care, Vienna UT Department for housing, ISBN9783902422156
editorial work
2016 bridgingMZAMBA – eine Brücke an der Wild Coast, archipendium, ISBN9783940874979
2007 +Cover Art, Ofrum 03, Sonderedition Architektur und Bauforum 323 07, redaktionsbuero-architektur, Wirtschaftsverlag Wien
other
2024 #multiplicity #forgetting #becoming, digital recordings, From Exile MUME (Museo Mexicano/Mexican Museum) by Oscar Cueto, AT, MX, BRA, ARG
2021 «Action and participation as critical scientific practice?- Feminist perspectives with Patricia Maguire» (orig.ger.) with Dinh My Anh, Seminar Critical Scientific Practice, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna University, AT
2020 «Back to Paradigms? – Reflecting Critical Realism, situating knowledge», PhD Seminar Social and spatial research methodologies, Skuor/Isra, TU Vienna, AT
2019 «Getting lost with good intentions and fragments of case studies» reader contribution, Mapping for Change, Cartographies of the Urban: Intersectionality and Climate Change Adaptation, Symposium K-lab, TU Berlin, GER
2019 «Protest: Between Althangrund and Sahelzone. Because I am ashamed of Europe», (orig.ger.) Seminar Ethnographic Methods, European Ethnology, Vienna University, AT
2010 Master thesis, «A place under the Sun for Everyone – Basis for planning of integrative urban Development and appropriate Architecture through the Analysis of formal and non-formal spatial practices in the housing area Cosmo City, Johannesburg» TU Wien, repostium.tuwien.at
press /online
own work, collaborative projects and interviews have been published in several daily newspapers mainly in Austria and SouthAfrica and international online magazines. for example profil, derStandard, Architecture in Development, Design Indaba, ArchDaily.