Schee Schiach

In the first two episodes of the exhibition we have traced schee and schiach in architecture from the past to the present. The third and last part looks into the future and is thus highly speculative.
The afo-mobil, which has been on the road in Linz since the summer months, continues to offer alternative realities. After taking a closer look at the dream of a single-family home, we speculate on whether it has a future. We look at what happens when the unloved elements of construction come to the fore and also want to know how AI-generated images are actually created. Of course, a doll's house will not be missing this time either.

afo-mobil
Suddenly, as if overnight, a small, brightly coloured house appears somewhere in the city. A little house on wheels. The urban survey device by mais.arch - consisting of Paul Eis and Max Meindl - tours the area in the form of a bicycle trailer. Generic architectural representations are shown on the integrated screen and passers-by are asked to vote on whether what is shown is nice or shabby. The results can be seen in the exhibition space.

The future of single-family homes
The desire of the majority to live in a single-family house remains unbroken. Peace, nature, security, etc. are sought in one's own four walls in the country. But does this typology have a future? What if the loans can no longer be serviced, the car is no longer affordable? Wolfgang Stempfer turns the screws and speculates about what might come. The thicket of possible developments is illustrated by Cecilia Trotz.

The concept of beauty in artificial intelligence
It is now child's play to generate images by means of artificial intelligence (AI) - a line of text, a click and off you go. But how does it work? Lisa Ackerl has tried to make the essence of the machine understandable for us. Only when we understand how new things are created from billions of text-image pairs can we assess what is in store for us with this technology.

forgotten elements
Ugly ventilation grilles, patchy rain pipes, annoying electricity boxes. Are these the decisive elements in architectural design? We add three more to the canon of design elements: pipes, distribution boxes and fans. Since generations of architects have already failed because of these problem areas, mais.arch have teamed up with KI to show how it could also be done.

ENTPUPPT
The history of the doll's house is also a history of the mainstream. It is usually played with miniature versions of adult reality. Margit Greinöcker wants to break out of this canon with ENTPUPPT. Her work consists of white, irregularly shaped wooden panels that can be reassembled again and again by young and old.

Opening:
October 11, 2023, 7 p.m

We open the third episode of the exhibition schee schiach. The third and final part looks into the future and is therefore highly speculative. The afo-mobile, which has been in Linz since the summer months, continues to offer alternative realities. After taking a close look at the dream single-family home, we speculate about whether it has a future. We look at what happens when the unloved elements of the building come to the fore and also want to know how AI-generated images are actually created. Of course, a dollhouse should not be missing this time either.