Mag.a Magdalena Augustin
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Dissertation project
The research project focuses on urban meeting places that combine architectural particularities, collective experiences, protest and music. Case studies will be urban locations where subcultures and youth cultures were started or cultivated. Clubs, discotheques or Squats have often been accomplished by social struggles and have the ambition to create a place for a large number of people to relax, to celebrate, to enjoy the cultural offer or to further educate themselves. They serve as important free spaces especially for young people and convey the feeling of freedom, fun and boundlessness. Based on critical heritage studies, the enriching role of those spaces is to be illuminated and described, under architectural, cultural and social perspectives.Magdalena Augustin held a scholarship at the Collaborative Research Centre 1015 “Otium” from November 2017 until November 2018. She focused on urban subcultural places in the context of aesthetics, space perception and social interactions during her time in Freiburg. Magdalena Augustin is doing her PhD in Architecture and Planning at the technical university of Vienna (thesis supervisor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phil Sabine Knierbein).
Her research centres on historical buildings, which are organized and used collectively by mostly young people. These spaces offer relaxation, retreat and at the same time collective action which in the end influences the neighbourhood and the city as a whole. During the stay at the SFB 1015 her work focused on the sociological and atmospheric conditions of subcultural spaces.