As part of a series of guest lectures, the graduate seminar The Public, the Architect, and the Urban Common(s) will host the lecture "Commoning the City" by Stefan Gruber on Friday March 15.

Stefan Gruber is the Lucian & Rita Case Assistant Professor for Architecture and Urban Design at Carnegie Mellon University, where he chairs the Master of Urban Design. His work spans architecture, urbanism, and research with a particular interest in practices of commoning and the bottom-up transformation of cities. STUDIOGRUBER’s projects range from urban design strategies, such as ‘Magnetic Urban Field’ for Graz, Austria to temporary interventions in public space, such as the ‘Wishing Table’ in Dessau, Germany and most recently ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ in downtown Pittsburgh. Gruber guest-edited ARCH+ magazine 232: An Atlas of Commoning and co-curated the eponymous traveling exhibition. Recent co-authored books include Spaces of Commoning (Sternberg, 2016), The Report (MAK, Museum for Applied Arts Vienna, 2015); Big! Bad? Modern: (Park Books, 2015) and Vienna: Slow Capital (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2011). 

Photo: © Sebastian Schels