In the summer semester 2011, the Institute for Architectural Theory and Building History of Innsbruck University organizes an exceptional program entitled Matchpoint.Innsbruck which consists of a design studio for Master students and an accompanying research, both in cooperation with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia (RMIT). The overall title of the project “Matchpoint” is derived from a Diploma project by Thomas Fussenegger called Matchpoint.Melbourne. His thesis analysed Melbourne as the city that is most strongly influenced by sports and the leisure industry in the world. In conjunction with a complementary research project Fussenegger’s thesis was exhibited at RMIT in summer 2010.

Consequently, Matchpoint.Innsbruck guarantees a comprehensive engagement with Innsbruck as a sporting city. Moreover, special emphasis will be placed on historical, urban, sociological, landscape, economical and last but not least architectural aspects. The results of the project will be published by RMIT in a book.

The kick-off-event of the Matchpoint.Innsbruck-program is the interdisciplinary symposium on March 7th:

MATCHPOINT.INNSBRUCK – Symposium

Monday, March 7th, 12 a. m.

Room HSB 11, Faculty for Architecture , Technikerstraße 21, University of Innsbruck

12 a.m. Welcome
Gabriela Seifert (Dean, Faculty of Architecture, University of Innsbruck)

Bart Lootsma (Head, Institute for Architectural Theory and Building History, University of Innsbruck)

Nigel Bertram (Director of the Urban Architecture Laboratory research unit, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology/RMIT

12.30 a.m. From Matchpoint.Melbourne to Matchpoint.Innsbruck
Thomas Fussenegger (Institute for Architectural Theory and Building History, University of Innsbruck)

1 p.m. Innsbruck. Olympic City Sports Region
Bettina Schlorhaufer (Institute for Architectural Theory and Building History, University of Innsbruck)

1.30 p.m. The need for a strategy for hosting sports events in Innsbruck-Tirol
Martin Schnitzer (Institute of Sports Science, University of Innsbruck)

2 p.m. Alpine Engineering – Landscape-adapted planning together with nature
Christian Klenkhart (Executive director, Klenkhart & Partner Consulting, Absam)

Coffee break

2.30 p.m. Tirol City – New Urbanism in the Alps
Wolfgang Andexlinger (Institute of Urbanism and Regional Planning, University of Innsbruck)

3 p.m. Sports – Culture?
Eric Sidoroff (Institute of Design.Studio 2, University of Innsbruck)

3.30 p.m. Beyond Use – Waste land and uninvested buildings as phenomena in the alps
Alexander Pfanzelt (Institute of Design, Studio 1, University of Innsbruck)

4 p.m. Ceci n’est pas Luxembourg – Example for a methodical approach to Mathpoint.Innsbruck
Bart Lootsma (Head, Institute for Architectural Theory and Building History, University of Innsbruck)

4.30 p.m. by-product-tokyo– Example for a methodical approach to Mathpoint.Innsbruck
Nigel Bertram (Director of the Urban Architecture Laboratory research unit, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology/RMIT)

5.00 p.m. Round table discussion