MetroLab Forum #1 METRO – Movies in Wonderland

Creative Governance and planning solutions on metropolitan level. The continuing urbanization trend is increasingly transforming cities into metropolitan areas. Even though metropolitan management and planning is not yet sufficiently integrated into contemporary planning practice and culture there are first attempts to develop new strategies and tools which tackle the emerging challenges of growing metropolises of […]

We face Covid in Peace and Harmony – Campaign with MUVA Mozambique

wonderland – platform for european architecture with its format movies in wonderland has teamed up with MUVA – Female Economic Empowerment in Mozambique, co-producing a video and media campaign for mutual support in households and neighborhoods in times of COVID-19. As we are dealing with COVID, and families are encouraged to stay home, there is […]

Architektur.Film.Sommer – At Home Together, 26.08.2020

At Home Together 26.08.2020 / Az W courtyard What It Takes to Make a Home, CDN 2019, 29:00 min, original version with English subtitles, R: Daniel Schwartz What role can architects adopt in combatting homelessness? The film follows a discussion between Michael Maltzan (Los Angeles) and Alexander Hagner (Vienna), who engage with this issue in […]

Architektur.Film.Sommer – Locked In – Locked Out, 19.08.2020

Locked In – Locked Out 19.08.2020, 8:30 pm / Az W courtyard Kaputt – Broken, DE 2016,  7:00 min, original version with English subtitles, R: Alexander Lahl, Volker Schlecht In this animadoc, former political prisoners Gabriele Stötzer and Birgit Willschütz talk about their detention in the notorious Hoheneck women’s prison in the former-GDR. Drawings and […]

Architektur.Film.Sommer – Counter Geographies, 12.08.2020

Counter – Geographies 12.08.2020, 8:30 pm / Az W courtyard   The Black Museum, D/US 2018, 52:00 min, original version with English subtitles, R: Oliver Hardt It was called for, planned, blocked and repeatedly delayed for over a hundred years before it finally opened in 2016: The National Museum of African American History and Culture. […]

Architektur.Film.Sommer – New Beginnings and Breakthroughs, 05.08.2020

New Beginnings and Breakthroughs 05.08.2020, 8:30 pm / Az W courtyard Ciudad Grande (Big City), MEX 2017, 31:24 min, original version with English subtitles, R: Ana Álvarez, Tuline Gülgönen The film accompanies children at five very different locations as they make their way through Mexico City. The camera shows a challenging urban setting from the […]

Movies in Wonderland Online Architecture Film Festival

Starting during Quarantine in March 2020, Movies in Wonderland started the Online Architecture Film Festival on the topic of “Building Spatial Justice.” Teaming up with the online arts magazine Art in Words,  Movies in Wonderland curated a series of freely accessible films related to architecture, urbanism, and design.  Enjoy! PROGRAM Powers of Ten. R: Eames […]

Movies in Wonderland Online Architecture Film Festival

Starting during Quarantine in March 2020, Movies in Wonderland started the Online Architecture Film Festival on the topic of “Building Spatial Justice.” Teaming up with the online arts magazine Art in Words,  Movies in Wonderland curated a series of freely accessible films related to architecture, urbanism, and design.  Enjoy! PROGRAM Powers of Ten. R: Eames […]

Secret Architecture Shortfilm Festival – TU Vienna

A selection of short films together with the premiere of Mies.TV´s portrait of “Berliner Schloss.” February 26, 20:00 TU Vienna – Fachschaft Architektur Mies. in Wonderland has put together a selection of short films for students and a broader audience at Austria’s largest architecture university.  Program: After All, the Culture of Nature, DE / ES […]

Launch & Projection: Beauty Matters – AA London

Mies. in Wonderland at the AA London February 28, 2020, 18:00 At the invitation of London’s most famous architecture school – the Architectural Association (AA School) – Mies. in Wonderland presents the architectural documentation “Why Does Beauty Matter?”. The film is shown to an international audience in London together with curator of the Tallinn Architecture […]

Mies. in Wonderland Bournemouth / UK

Why Does Beauty Matter?  Documentary & talk with curator Yael Reisner. February 21, 2020 Arts University Bournemouth Mies. in wonderland presents at one of the most renowned film and architecture schools in Great Britain the recently produced documentary “Why Does Beauty Matter” – filmed at the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2019. Accompanying the film, the curator […]

Mies. In Wonderland 2019

Why Does Beauty Matter? A documentary on the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2019 Why Does Beauty Matter? D: Mies. TV, 27min., EE 2019. eOV Description The Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB 2019) curated by Yael Reisner has raised the issue of Beauty in architecture. A term, often ignored by todays architects, is the focus of the exhibition […]

public space & urban heat

public space & urban heat in cooperation with Creative Cluster date & time: 11. November 2019, 19:00 – 21:00 place: Creative Cluster Projektraum Schlingermarkt Brünnerstraße 34-38/14/R01 1220 Floridsdorf “LOKALE FOREN Floridsdorf” is an event by PlaceCity partner Vienna. The event will start with a public discussion about “how to counteract heat in the city and […]

Öffentlicher Raum & Hitze in der Stadt

public space & urban heat in cooperation with Creative Cluster date & time: 11. November 2019, 19:00 – 21:00 place: Creative Cluster Projektraum Schlingermarkt Brünnerstraße 34-38/14/R01 1220 Floridsdorf “LOKALE FOREN Floridsdorf” is an event by PlaceCity partner Vienna. The event will start with a public discussion about “how to counteract heat in the city and […]

Double Happiness at Harvard GSD

Film night and Discussion  Special Guest: director Ella Raidel in cooperation with Prof. Michael Hooper, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, GSD October 28, 6pm at GUND 109, Harvard GSD Film screening followed by a discussion on the film topic and urban development around Harvard University. Moderated by Marlene Rutzendorfer. Among the Chinese double happiness refers to […]

Repair – Architektur.Film.Sommer 2019

Wednesday, 28.08.2019, 20:30 – Repair Architekturzentrum Wien – in the courtyard Museumsplatz 1 1070 Vienna In case of rain: Az W Podium Bikes n’ Rails: Solidarität schafft Raum, AT 2019, 7:00 min, original version (German), D: Filmgruppe RPL Building an entire apartment building without capital — how does that work? The Bikes and Rails construction […]

Economy – Architektur.Film.Sommer 2019

Wednesday, 21.08.2019, 20:30 – Economy Architekturzentrum Wien – in the courtyard Museumsplatz 1 1070 Vienna In case of rain: Az W Podium The Disappearance of Robin Hood, CH 2018, 25:13 min, original version with English subtitles, D: Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou London, 1972: The post-war welfare state ushered in an era of utopian housing projects. Robin […]

Ecology – Architektur.Film.Sommer 2019

Wednesday, 14.08.2019, 20:30 – Ecology Architekturzentrum Wien – in the courtyard Museumsplatz 1 1070 Vienna In case of rain: Az W Podium Lost World, KH/SG 2018, 16:00 min, original version with English subtitles, D: Kalyanee Mam The mangrove forests of Cambodia are an important source of sand for Singapore. However, the ecosystem and the local […]

Care – Architektur.Film.Sommer 2019

Wednesday, 07.08.2019, 20:30  – Care Architekturzentrum Wien – in the courtyard Museumsplatz 1 1070 Vienna In case of rain: Az W Podium Design that Heals, US 2016, 24:00 min, original version with English subtitles, D: Thatcher Bean & Alan Ricks (MASS Design Group) In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the health pioneer Dr Pape is successfully combatting the […]

Architektur.Film.Sommer 2019

The seventh edition of the international open-air architecture film festival has a focus this year on the topic ‘Critical Care. Repairing the Future’. Opening on August 7, the four film evenings in the Az W courtyard are dedicated to the role of architecture and urbanism in times of man-made climate change and increasing social polarization. […]