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Ana Janevski: Looping, Relaying and Echoing. Three Curatorial Strategies
Lecture, 16 July 2025, 19:00
Tanya Lukin Linklater: _structural_flex_
Lecture, 8 July 2025, 19:00
Florence Jung: Doing nothing?
Lecture, 24 June 2025, 19:00
Rabih Mroué: Shot/Counter Shot. Rethinking the Reverse
Lecture, 17 June 2025, 19:00
Adir Jan & Emrah Gökmen: On the Shores of the Munzur, on the Shores of the Murat
Concert, 12 June 2025, 20:00
Miloš Trakilović: Love Songs & War Machines
Lecture, 10 June 2025, 19:00
Anna Roberta Goetz: 36. Bienal de São Paulo. Not All Travellers Walk Roads / Of Humanity as Practice
Lecture, 3 June 2025, 19:00
Jimmy Robert
Lecture, 27 May 2025, 19:00
Klein: No Degree, No Budget, No Problem
Lecture (20.5.) Concert (21.5.), 20 – 21 May 2025
Julian Irlinger: Reanimation and Reconstruction
Lecture, 13 May 2025, 19:00
İmran Ayata & Bülent Kullukçu: Songs of Gastarbeiter
Music Lecture, 8 May 2025, 19:00
Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien: Langit Lupa (Heaven Earth)
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Helen Marten: Animal Hours
Lecture, 29 April 2025, 19:00
Application: Master of Arts Program in CURATORIAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
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Semester Break Spring 2025
Information, 14 February – 21 April 2025
Water Cooler Talks 2025
Event, 8 – 9 February 2025
Rundgang 2025
Exhibition, 7 – 9 February 2025, 10:00–20:00
Trisha Donnelly
Lecture, 30 January 2025, 19:00
Kerstin Brätsch: Parasite Painting
Lecture, 28 January 2025, 19:00
Emma Enderby: Curating in and out of Place
Lecture, 14 January 2025, 19:00

Stefano Corbo: Archaeology of Infrastructures. A Conceptual Cartography
Stefano Corbo (1981) is an Italian architect, researcher, and educator. In 2012, after working as an architect at Mecanoo Architecten, Stefano founded his own office SCSTUDIO Architecture and Design (www.scstudio.eu), a multidisciplinary network practicing architecture and design, preoccupied with the intellectual, economical and cultural context.
Stefano will give a talk based on the following premise: In the transition from a Modernist vision, based on abstraction and separation (and in architecture on the metaphor of the machine), towards a model that could be defined as thermodynamic, a new world emerges whose material and technical articulations appear according to open, fluid and unstable dynamics. It’s something about buildings and at the same time about electro-material environments, or atmospheres. Stefano corbo shall elaborate upon his research project based on those moments of discontinuity that somehow express the crisis of Modernity and that announce a paradigm shift; exemplified in a symptomatic way by the notion of infrastructure.
Characterized by a multitude of articulations and categorizations, the discourse around infrastructures has marked the last two decades of architectural production and theoretical debate. To investigate its contemporary nature means dealing with the complex interpenetration of architectural, biological and social structures within a single element, and at the same time, means describing new conditions – a renovated relationship between interior and exterior, the creation of artificial territories, the mix between horizontal and vertical configurations, the change from the idea of program to the idea of use (use implies movement, the idea of experience, perception, fluidity).
Vision machines, knowledge apparatus, convective architectures – all of these recent manifestations are but the late-capitalist evolution of the modernist idea of infrastructure.
Stefano Corbo received an M.Arch II in Advanced Architectural Design at ETSAM Madrid (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura) in 2010, and is currently a Ph.D Candidate at the same Institute. Stefano has taught at several academic Institutions: LAU Beirut (Lebanese American University); The Faculty of Architecture in Alghero, Italy; ETSAM Madrid; and has been a guest lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, ESALA Edinburgh, The University of Miami, MIT, and The University of Wisconsin.
In December 2014, his first book was published by Ashgate: “From Formalism to Weak Form. The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman.” In May 2016 his new book will be published by Images: “Interior Landscapes. A visual atlas.”, a journey through the interior – exterior dichotomy in contemporary architecture.