Mapping Social Architecture

Doctoral studies, Mapping `Social Architecture´ – critical reflection and methodic experiment on cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary practice, Vienna University of Technology, 2018/19 – ongoing

UE 786 600, Dr.-Studium der Architekturwissenschaften
Supervision: Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christian Kühn

The autobiographically led practice-based research is positioned in the context of Social Architecture as diverse settings of design-build or live-projects between actors in the Global North and South, beyond established service delivery or as a teaching method.
Built artefacts and their process allow further investigation of own and collective practices, joint attention and their affects and effects. Translating and sharing situated knowledges from multi-sited spatial production to supplement and speculate on accountable, traceable critical global /planetary spatial practices.
Within the social turn in architecture, the doctoral-research aims at a decolonizing and emancipatory approach researching intersectional, social-spatial and geo-political relations of trans-disciplinary and cross-cultural construction sites.

MarleneWagner
presented 2016 at Public Interest Design: collective action and social engagement in architectural education, Hands On – enhancing architectural education, TU Wien

published 2022 „Decolonizing DesignBuild? – Constructions Sites of Unlearning!“ in GAM18 Beyond the Institution: Transforming the Learning Environment in Architectural Education