»Alternative Spaces of Innovation. A Comparative Study of 19th-Century Spa Towns as Regional Innovation Clusters«
I received a BIAAS grant for my Postdoc research project “Alternative Spaces of Innovation. A Comparative Study of 19th-Century Spa Towns as Regional Innovation Clusters.”
This interdisciplinary project aims from a historical-comparative perspective at exploring how 19th-century spa towns in Austria and California became regional innovation clusters. The project argues that innovation in 19th-century Austria and California also occurred in ‘alternative’ spaces such as spa towns.
I am particularly interested in exploring which architectural and cultural strategies were employed in order to re-design the natural conditions in and around 19th-century spa towns as landscapes of health in which new relationships between humans, landscapes, and cure were architecturally framed.
Project duration: September 2020–December 2021
