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Fear of Life - Ton Matton: Improvisations on Urbanity

Ton Matton is professor at the depart- ment of Space & Design Strategies at Kunstuniversität Linz. He studied city- planning at Delft Technical University and in 1991 started the Schie 2.0 of ce, urban and environmental design, looking for transformations of autarkic architectural moments. Schie 2.0 was part of the dutch designgroup of the nineties, who worked on an amnesty for the build reality, and who experimen- tally, emphatically explains the prob- lems of planning and city-design. Fear of Life. The City as a Habitat to All The actual (and not entirely surprising) political conditions of life in Austria and its neighboring countries is a burning as well as starting point to the planning of this international symposium. Fear respectively the creation of anxieties has become a much too powerful instrument of political persuasion. Solidaric processes are undermined if not destroyed, future is discount­ ed: if circumstances do obviously not improve at least they should not change anymore. How do notions of innovation come into play in an atmosphere of re­bordering Europe? How could artists, how should intellectuals act now? And from where? Should they change the contexts of their work? Should they start to focus already on much younger generations? Or should they establish safe spaces inside institutions? Big questions and maybe the answers could be found in distinct if not even pungent words, in highly precise and detailed actions, in repeated societal acupunctures in both virtual and ana­ logue spaces?