meidlinger markt ER:LEBT was the working title and starting point of a joint project involving both students from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and students of architecture from the city’s University of Technology. The market area in Vienna’s twelfth district suggested itself as a platform of art in urban space. In the summer semester 2008, the quarter turned into a point of reference and field of activities for market events, architecture, and fine art. Stand #91 was used as an artistic and architectural base that offered an on-site communication hub. The project was accompanied by various activities, interventions, and a lecture series.
Initiated by a. o. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Doz. Judith Huemer and Ass.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Anton Kottbauer, the collaboration between two universities was aimed at exploring the Meidling Market as a local economic center in all its facets, shedding light on its potential from various points of view, and offer optimization suggestions should the occasion arise. Whereas the architecture students focused on issues of spatial design and aspects of planning, it was a communication-oriented interventionist approach which the art students pursued.