4500000: Aglaée Degros - The fluidity of public space in Europe after Paris attacks on November 2015

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The essence of the European city is the life that exists between buildings, the public space! It is by definition a place to meet, to cross, to lounge for this purpose it required a certain fluidity of the space. This fluidity nowadays transforms since many European cities - Paris, Bruxelles, Nice, Berlin, London - are confronted with terrorism using the public space as a field for attacks. The lecture will survey the transformation of the fluidity of the space and reflect on it.

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Aglaée Degros is professor and chair of the Institute of Urbanism at Graz University of Technology. Aglaée was born in 1972 in Leuven, Belgium, and studied architecture in Brussels, Karlsruhe, and Tampere. In 2001, she cofounded Artgineering, an office dedicated to improve the relation between landscape, city and infrastructure based in Rotterdam, which moved to Brussels in 2014. Degros has held various teaching positions and visiting professorships at Delft University of Technology, the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture, the Free University of Brussels, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and Vienna University of Technology, among others. Degros is co-editor of Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe (2013) and co-author of Brussels, [re]discovering its spaces (2014). She regularly serves as a jury member at international urban planning and design competitions.

Lecture Series of the Institute for Architecture and Planning WS 17/18 and SS 18
Transparency is a key feature of today's society. But is transparency also a current topic in architecture and urban planning? Is the current trend towards large-scale glazed buildings merely an expression of a new material or an artistic response to social changes? Does transparency in buildings ultimately result in more visible processes within a building or is it only a characterisation of the materiality?
The Institute for Architecture and Planning at the University of Liechtenstein will conduct a lecture series from autumn 2017 onwards for one year. In the series, different disciplinary perspectives will deal with the literary, the transposed and the organisational understanding of transparency; taking into account the perspectives of architecture, landscape architecture, conceptual design, perception-oriented urban research and participatory urban development.