29 April 2022

Café Exchange at the former Kassenhalle of the Austrian Postal Savings Bank presented upcoming science & arts programme powered by the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, an initiative of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

In May in the light flooded hall of the former Kassenhalle of the Postsparkasse (Postal Savings Bank) once built by Jugendstil architect and forward thinker Otto Wagner, the new meeting place 'Café Exchange' for science & arts symposiums, talks, workshops and performances will open as classical Viennese Café where coffee and small dishes are served while guests are discussing topics concerning the future. The building is turning successively into a science and arts hub in Vienna.

The programme is curated by the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, an initiative of the University of Applied Arts Vienna on the basis of the university's ongoing research projects which involve various partners and disciplines. The first event 'Salon de Passage' is a research presentation. The exploration of urban spaces by following the appearance of the color 'green' such as the 'Otto Wagner green' in Vienna happens with experts from different fields like architecture, visual arts, or media theory on 6 May.

The programme with events about topics like data, discrimination, and democratic future ('The Rage of Data' on 12 May) or 'Shaping Sustainable Societies Together' (18 May) is published at ail.angewandte.at.

Images, from left: View at the 'Café Exchange' at the former cashier hall of the Postsparkasse at Georg-Coch-Platz 2 in the 1st district of Vienna. Right: On view are (from right) the directors of the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab Alexandra Graupner and Elisabeth Falkensteiner, the President (Rektor) of the University of Applied Arts Vienna Gerald Bast, and restaurateur Alexander Afrough at the programme presentation at Café Exchange on 28 April 2022.
Photos: © DieAngewandte/Foto:eSeL.at-Joanna Pianka.