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Extremes of Living / Workshop
First task: Living Extreme

Switch of your well known image of Vienna, forget your identity and go on an expedition to unknown living patterns in the boroughs of Vienna, outside of the Gürtel.

Look for places and situations where you would like to spend the night and collect the qualities and criterias of it. Look for “Shared Space” as Carlos Arroyo names it.

Timetable: 8 hours of extreme living
start: wed 4th oct 2006, 22:00 (after the lecture)
end: thur 5th oct 2006, 06:00 (go home take a shower and a break)
presentation of the expedition thur 5th oct 14:00 R211

Teams: 2 students

Location: Vienna
10. Favoriten
11. Simmering
12. Meidling
13. Hietzing
14. Penzing
15. Rudolfsheim-Fünfh
16. Ottakring
17. Hernals
18. Währing
19. Döbling
20. Brigittenau
21. Floridsdorf
22. Donaustadt
23. Liesing

Movement:
Public transport
Bike
On Foot

Equipment:
Comfortable shoes
Comfortable clothes
Index cards
Zip-bags
10 Euro maximum (don´t spend more money)
Camera

Conditions:
Spend the night in “your” borough
If you have friends or families there, don´t visit them
Don´t spend your night in hotesl, bars, clubs …

Methods:
Making friends
Making connections
Making spaces

Output:
Report of the expedition
Lost property (give it in zip-bags and make a note: title, place, time)
Sketches
Maps
Notes
Photos

SOS:
If you are in troubles and you don´t know what to do, the magic words are “self organisation” and “improvisation”.

Enjoy and good luck!!!