This cooperation is based on a deep friendship between the architects: Vivek Vijay Shankar of Vivek Associates from Bangalore/India and Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter from Vienna/ Austria. We met at the melting pot London during our studies at the AA. We have found out, that we do have similar ideas about the future of architecture, the future of design and the future of cities.
Therefore we want to cooperate internationally and interdisciplinary to create better solutions for future living. We want to combine different intellectual backgrounds to develop better ideas. Our foundation is the international discussion.
We want to get inspired by each other. We want to get inspired by different places to design better.
Transient studies the developments of our society. We focus on the art of living, working and moving to create the space for the future. We focus on science, sociology and philosophy to find future requirements. Transient is a scientific space laboratory.
We observe the developments at super fast places like Bangalore, Bombay or Hyderabad to find out, how space for working, living, meeting and moving will change. We renew the public space.
We study our personal identity, our traditions our psychology at Vienna and Bangalore to free our minds, to work without borders. Transient means revolutionary architecture.
Transient aims to explore the potential that the web offers to collaborations irrespective of geographical boundaries and time zones.
Our co-operation will test the notion of design as an exchange of ideas and methodologies that are necessitated by the radical design realm within which we operate.
The concept of networks as we understood during our Masters program at the AA inspired us to a large extent in this cross border cooperation wherein the system allows the network to be expanded to other cities across the world as a result of advanced communication real-time technologies like the internet.
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