After successful completion of the course, students are able to work on a design task for which the concept of space and the understanding of spatial relationships form the starting point of the problem. They learn to deal critically with basic questions of museum space, in particular by addressing a specific context and the questions derived from it about dealing with location, inventory and cultural and urban planning history.
"It seems to me that this coming and going of reflection, ideas, imagination and film work between what is true and what is not is what makes life so appealing to me. When you make cinema, you have to reinvent life." - Agnès Varda
The development of the film as a medium is linked to the evolution of its technology; to the invention of apparatuses that create an illusion of movement with the help of image sequences. Film develops as a representation of the real and at the same time as a medium of storytelling and an image of the unreal. Film became an art form, a mirror of reality, a means of entertainment and dissemination of information, as well as a potent political instrument.
Even before the advent of cinema at the end of the 19th century, the cinematographic gaze emerged: t the influence of industrialisation on urban space and the advent of new means of transport transformed the visual experience of time and space. In motion, a new view of passing urban spaces and landscapes is possible. With the first film screening by the Lumière brothers in Paris in 1895, film became a collective experience. At the same time, the reproducibility of film is linked to the techniques of its production. "This not only enables the mass distribution of film works in the most immediate way, it forces it," wrote Walter Benjamin in 1935. Due to its high production costs, Benjamin refers to film as the "acquisition of the collective".
With the technological progress in the 21st century, the conditions of production and distribution of films are changing a lot. What role does the collective play in this? What is happening to the collective experience of film through the influence of video formats on the internet and social media? How does film exist today as an art form? As a means of entertainment? As a political and social instrument between democratisation and abuse?
The "Vienna Film Institute" is a place of reception and debate on the subject of film and its significance in the 21st century. Exhibitions, film screenings, lectures and a media collection make film an object of reflection and exploration and at the same time build a dialogue with the audience. The location near Belvedere 21 and the new urban development areas around the main railway station mark an interesting junction where the historical layers of the city overlap with new developments and both movement and change have an omnipresence in urban space.
Intro Video: https://tube1.it.tuwien.ac.at/w/6yb6WGLJZ3GHLGxoGo9rf7
Theoretical basics, the analysis of typological references and volume studies form the introduction to the design work. In the course of the semester, only spatial hand sketches are to supplement the design work on the physical working models, with the help of which all architectural questions are investigated. Only at the end of the semester will the projects be processed through digital drawings, similar to an inventory of the design process. Regular assignments are intended to advance the development of the projects during the semester and thus provide an increased focus on the design process. The results of the groups of two are critically questioned and discussed by the students among themselves and with external guests at regular intervals.
Introduction: Thursday, 03.03.22, 9:30 am , via Zoom at https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/93321345476,
Meeting-ID: 933 2134 5476
Site visit: Thursday, 03.03.22, 12:00 pm, Meeting point Entrance Schnellbahn - station "Quartier Belvedere"
Weekly meetings will take place on Thursdays and Fridays.
Applications preferebly with Portfolio.
Please note that dates are subject to change!
