Matchpoint.Innsbruck 2011
Melburnians research on the alpine sports city

Following the Matchpoint.Melbourne project and events in 2010 the architecture department of the Universtiy of Innsbruck hosted a research and design studio centred around the topic
‘Innsbruck - the ideal sporting city?’.

The Studio was hosted by the institute for architecturaltheory and tutored by Bart Lootsma, Bettina Schlorhaufer, Erik Sidoroff and Thomas Fussenegger from Innsbruck University and Nigel Bertram and Marika Neustupny from RMIT University. Besides sports issues Matchpoint.Innsbruck put a special emphasis on historical, urban, sociological, landscape, economical and last but not least architectural aspects.

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Symposium panel from March 7th 2011:

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)

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