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Forum Stadtpark Graz
Stadtpark 1
8010 Graz


A conversation with Judith Laister, Margit Peterfy, Klaus Rieser, Christina Töpfer and Annette Kisling
Moderation: Nassim Balestrini

In 2015, it was decided that the Robin Hood Gardens, a large housing estate in London, should be demolished. Planned in the early 1970s by Alison and Peter Smithson, Robin Hood Gardens was an innovative and prestigious social housing project at the time. Numerous efforts to preserve and redevelop this unique residential complex failed. A new development was planned and realised in a very short space of time. Since 2015, Annette Kisling has been visiting Robin Hood Gardens and capturing the transformation of the housing complex in photographs. Each visit confronts the photographer with a different situation in the process of transforming the site. Through her pictures, Annette Kisling wants to make her view of the remarkable architecture of the Smithsons and the special features of the planning comprehensible. At the same time, her work in recent years has been characterised by the demolition and disappearance of one of the two large residential buildings that stood opposite each other at the beginning of her involvement with Robin Hood Gardens. In 2024, newly constructed, ready-to-occupy residential buildings will take the place of the demolished residential complex. Opposite the new buildings is the second residential complex from the 1970s, which is still standing but empty. A very special situation, an unusual juxtaposition.

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