Urban Horizon 25 Years of dérive

“dérive shares knowledge from urban research, art and activism, and is committed to the democratisation of urban society and promoting critical public discourse.”

Who has a right to the city? ‘dérive. Urban Horizon’ invites you to embark on a journey through academia, art and activism, exploring key issues, such as housing, public space, and the democratization of urban society. The exhibition offers insights into the journal’s theoretical and practical engagement with urban space as political space.

Since 2000, dérive has been dedicated to exploring and informing on the subject of the “urban” with multimedia and from multiple perspectives. The horizon of all its activities encompasses the “right to the city” and “urban society” (Henri Lefebvre) as a vision of an emancipatory socio-economic system that collectively shapes urban space, diversely appropriated and opened for encounter, difference and participation. Founded out of curiosity and a passion for the city, dérive has developed into an international network of committed urban researchers, planners, artists and activists whose work on urban space and society is presented and discussed in dérive, on Radio dérive, at the urbanize! Int. Festival for Urban Explorations, and in numerous other projects. The exhibition ‘dérive. Urban Horizon’ uses the journal as its starting point to illustrate this deep and complex engagement with urban topics.

Curators: Christoph Laimer, Elke Rauth, Elisabeth Haid
Exhibition & Graphic design: Atelier Anna Liska and tracing spaces / Michael Hieslmair, Michael Zinganel

All information on the accompanying programme and other venues for the exhibition: www.derive.at

Supported by: City of Vienna, Department of Culture, and Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport