Leerstandsaktivierung der ehemaligen Strickwarenfabrik Hirschbach im Waldviertel.

Studio Calas is an architectural space whose framework of action explores socio-cultural practices. Our projects exhibit aspects of architecture, theory, urbanism, art, digitalisation, design, politics and the curating of exhibitions. The theorybased-, yet practice-oriented approach enables open-ended navigation between the disciplines. Our cooperative working method, driven by dialogue and discourse, fosters the search for continuously added value in the creative process.

Eco-social design can be understood as a diversity of practices and projects that want to contribute to a much-needed transformation of the relations among humans and between humans and other living beings/ecosystems, in order to move towards more sustainable, non-alienated, resilient, just and equitable futures. This embraces a myriad of changes of producing, distributing and consuming, of living and working together, of societies, economies and cultures. As a whole, this can be called the great social-ecological transformation. This goes along with practices that “maintain, continue, and repair our ‘world’ so that we can live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining web.”, as Bernice Fisher and Joan C. Tronto outline their idea of CARE , which is the annual theme of the study course. The theme serves as an inspiration (not a limitation). It brings um questions such as: What to care about and for? With and for whom? Which (social) infrastructures, interfaces, tools, spaces and processes can be designed to enable CARE giving and CARE receiving? How to design these in CARE-ful ways?

Urban Sync allows citizens to co-create their city. Civic participation is essential for urban development and we provide the perfect tool.Urban Sync is a Vienna based startup enabling civic participation in urban projects. The 5 team members with different backgrounds have strong expertise in the fields of urbanism, civic participation, mobile app development, marketing & social media.