Association to delay the time

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The Association for the Delay of Time was founded in 1990 by the Austrian professor Peter Heintel (1940-2018) and currently has around 700 members - mainly in German-speaking countries. Heintel saw in founding the association an approach to stimulate a reflective use of time on a collective basis and to strive for new, participatory ways of dealing with the phenomenon of time. According to the statutes, the members undertake to "pause and think where blind activism and particular interests produce pseudo-solutions."

The association is registered in the Austrian register of associations , but sees itself primarily as a movement and a network of people for whom the appropriate use of time is a concern. Members and interested parties exchange ideas at the annual symposia , get involved in regional groups, plan projects together and implement them. The full-time club office in Klagenfurt answers media inquiries, arranges experts and networks the club with other scientific, cultural and social initiatives and publishes a club magazine several times a year.

According to their own statements, many members see the association as a helpful source of support. You are not alone there in your use of time. Others are researching the subject of time, wanting an exchange that goes beyond “small talk about this fast-moving time”. The club name is meant provocatively according to its own statements and wants to indicate that people often do not take enough time to make “mature” decisions and therefore often spend the time self-inflicted crisis management. Another focus of the association is therefore so-called "paradoxical interventions in public space", with which the association invites people to reflect in staged art actions.

The non-profit and non-partisan association is affiliated with the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Training (IFF) of the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and has national representations in Germany and Switzerland .

The board of the association consists of the following persons (elected by the general assembly on September 26, 2014 for two years):

Martin Liebmann (chairman), Angelika Drabert (chairwoman), Franz J. Schweifer (deputy chairman), Harald Dvorak, Peter J. Klein and Mark Riklin. Peter Heintel was the honorary chairman.

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