Lecture on how architectural and product design interventions discipline and control behavior or exclude certain groups.

Based on his group of works "Excl.", Julius C. Schreiner sheds light on how an architecture of exclusion has developed with increasing urbanization. Under terms such as "hostile design" or "defensive architecture", urban spaces are emerging that subtly control behaviour and exclude certain groups through barriers, defensive devices or privatized spaces. In his lecture, Schreiner talks about his research and analyses of these developments and illustrates them with photographic works from various cities such as London, New York, Paris, Innsbruck, Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig. The images reveal how uniform, seemingly safe spaces are created that are controlled and regulated by architectural and product design interventions. Through the targeted use of light, he elevates inconspicuous objects to artefacts that are reminiscent of advertising images and at the same time make the displacement visible - processes that primarily affect marginalized groups, but in the long term change our understanding of public spaces as a whole.