The office for transdisciplinary research & cultural production focus on the linkage of SPATIAL THEORY (production of space, appropriation of space, right on the city), URBAN RESEARCH (local + international urban politics, urban societies + cultures, urban + „subcultural“ movements, politics of urban development, economization, participation), GENDER + QUEER STUDIES (gender theories, gender politics, women‘s + queer movements, activism) and CONTEMPORARY ART (artistic production, interventions in urban spaces, art + cultural criticism).

The office is run by Yvonne P. Doderer.

BACKGROUND
Professor for Gender & Cultural Studies, University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf (Germany, current); Visiting Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Architecture, Visual Arts Program, Cambridge (USA); Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) with excellence in Political Science, Faculty of Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund (Germany); Freelance Architect; Diploma Engineer for Architecture, Technical University of Stuttgart (Germany); Apprenticeship Diploma Carpenter (Germany)

LECTURES / SYMPOSIA (selection)
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (Singapore); Goethe-Institut, Hanoi (Vietnam); IASPIS Stockholm (Sweden); Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (Germany); Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (Germany); Kunstverein Düsseldorf (Germany); Schauspielhaus Hamburg (Germany); Oberwelt Stuttgart (Germany); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Visual Arts Program, Cambridge (USA); Centre de Creation Contemporaine Tours (France); Programm Distrikt Ost u. Performance Hotel Stuttgart (Germany); Center for Icelandic Art Reykjavik (Iceland); Art Art Laboratory Sulaymaniya (Iraq); Musée d‘Art Moderne et Contemporain Strasbourg (France); Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA) Yerevan (Armenia); Kunstraum München (Germany); workstation Ideenwerkstatt e.V. Berlin (Germany); IG Kultur Vorarlberg Feldkirch (Austria); Österreichische Gesellschaft für Architektur, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK) Vienna (Austria); Generali Foundation Vienna (Austria); Depot Wien (Austria); Shedhalle Zürich (Switzerland); Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (Sweden); Zentrum für Gender-Studien in Forschung und Lehre Universität Paderborn (Germany); University of Vienna (Austria); Humboldt Universität Berlin (Germany); University of Dortmund (Germany); Kungliga Konsthögskolan Stockholm (Sweden); Statens Kunstakademi Oslo (Norway); Ludwig-Boltzmann Institut für Stadtgeschichtsforschung Vienna (Austria); Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna (Austria); Symposion „Thinking Space/Negotiating Space“, Programme Area „Contemporary Art & Cultural Production“, University of Salzburg/University Mozarteum (Keynote) (Austria); SITAC VI Sexto Simposio Internacional de Teoría sobre Arte Contemporáneo Mexico City (Mexico); urban potentials - Motorenhalle – Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst Dresden (Germany); Liverpool Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art 2006, Liverpool (United Kingdom); 3. Berlin Biennale, Kunstwerke e.V. / Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin (Germany); International Contemporary Art Experts Forum ARCO Madrid (Spain); O.K-Centrum für Gegenwartskunst Linz (Austria)

GRANTS / AWARD
Office for Contemporary Art Norway Oslo, working grant (Norway); Maison de Sciences de l’Homme Paris Postdoc-Research scholarship (France); Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, working grant (Germany); Artist in Residence Program, Die Hoege, Bremen, working grant (Germany); SüdWest LB Graphik Kunstpreis‘97, 2. Award (Germany)

TEACHINGS
University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf (Germany); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Architecture, Visual Arts Program, Cambridge (USA); Institut für Landschafts- u. Umweltplanung, TU Berlin (Germany); Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Austria); École Supérieure d’Art Visuel, Geneva (Switzerland); Merz Academy, Stuttgart (Germany); Kunsthochschule Nürtingen (Germany)

conceptual adivce, exhibition project MOBILE_TRANSBORDER ARCHIVE within INSITE – Art Practices in the Public Domain, San Diego (USA) + Tijuana (Mexico); project management exhibition ERLAUF ERINNERT SICH..., Kultur Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich, Erlauf, (Austria); project management exhibition FIRST STORY – WOMEN BUILDING / NEW NARRATIVES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, section „Visual Arts and Architecture“, European Cultural Capital Porto 2001 (Portugal); scientific-artistic advice for interactive media project, NIKOVAN, Stuttgart/Berlin (Germany); conceptual adivce CITIES + SPACES, Südwestrundfunk Baden-Baden (Germany)

OTHER ACTIVITIES (selection)
various scientific research projects, scientific expert activities (Austria), guest critic, city guide, activist