Gabu Heindl: Urban Conflicts - Manifesto of Housing - exhibition at GAB

The exhibition is part of the ongoing research by Gabu Heindl, who critically examines the role of architecture within housing and urban planning politics. The starting point is a small Manifesto on the politics of CARE for housing as a public good and a human right and CARE for land. However, Heindl clearly perceives the political foundations of such an endeavor – the writing of the manifesto – as shaky, partial, and contentious.
As part of an additive concept, the exhibition provides insight into the development of the global housing crisis through interviews with housing activists in the specific contexts of Vienna, Brno, Nuremberg, London, and Vancouver. Heindl relates the events to her projects, which stem from a specific interest in searching for future strategies within the (un)realized scenarios of housing policies of Red Vienna. The continuously updated Manifesto on housing is a contribution to the struggles for the right to housing and the city.
Gabu Heindl (PhD) is an architect, urban planner, and activist who deals with housing in politics, planning and public administration, and public space. She is a professor of urbanism at the Nuremberg Institute of Technology and head of a studio at the Architectural Association in London. She is the founder of the award-winning architectural office GABU Heindl Architektur and has served as the chair of the Austrian Society for Architecture (ÖGFA). Her works have been exhibited at the biennials in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and at the Venice Biennale, most recently on the topic of housing within the platform urbanism at the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021. She also writes about architecture, having published works such as Building Critique. Architecture and its Discontent (editors G. Heindl, M. Klein, C. Linortner, Leipzig, 2019) and the monograph Stadtkonflikte. Radikale Demokratie in Architektur und Stadtplanung (Vienna, 2020). Currently, she is researching justice as a parameter of spatial planning for the Vienna Chamber of Labor, with results to be presented in the upcoming publication Gerechte Stadt muss sein!.

Due to the current unfavorable epidemiological situation, the opening and lecture by Austrian architect Gabu Heindl will take place online. The exhibition will be open to the public from January 5, 2022.

Link to the online opening and lecture MS Teams on December 22, 2021, at 19:00
Opening hours: December 22, 2021–February 17, 2022, Wed–Sun 14:00–19:00*
Architecture Gallery Brno, Starobrněnská 18
*open to the public from January 5, 2022
production: Karolína Plášková
architecture: Karolína Munková
graphic design: Bára Růžičková
installation: Adam Tomaschek, Ludmila Jankovichová, Šimon Doubrava, Martin Králík
organizational assistance: Adéla Šoborová, Radmila Presová
consultation: Jan Kristek
The project was created with financial support from the Ministry of Culture, the Czech Architecture Foundation, the State Fund for Culture, the city of Brno, and the Faculty of Architecture at VUT Brno. The event is held under the auspices of the Mayor of the statutory city of Brno, JUDr. Markéta Vaňková.