After successful completion of the course, students are able to independently engage in different practical fields of visual culture. They can draw on the specialised knowledge in individual areas of contemporary visual culture they have acquired, together with a range of practical skills and creative independence in dealing with current phenomena of visual culture.
Googleplex, Silicon Valley, 2018 (photo: Peter Mörtenböck)
WS 2019/20: NEW MODELS OF URBAN LIFE
The course discusses new types of production in the process of globalization, both in artistic creation and in terms of economic, spatial and technical products. Hands-on exploration will determine how these models reflect the creation of different modernities and the tension between different worlds. On the basis of practical exercises, possibilities are developed for intervening creatively in current phenomena of visual culture.
In connection with the courses "Contemporary Culture" and "Urban Visual Culture", we will examine the way in which platform companies have influenced architecture and urban planning. Is this about a departure from traditional forms of capitalist accumulation, or is it just about opening up new markets? We explore different projects in Vienna and internationally with respect to the diversity of their promises, financing models, participation structures, realisation potential, social and political dimensions.
Project assignment: Individually or in small groups, self-selected architectural and urban planning projects are to be extensively researched, documented and analysed. The results, which are to be prepared in textual form, are intended to supplement the investigations carried out in the course "Urban Visual Culture".
see also: https://institute.tuwien.ac.at/visual_culture_unit
1st class: 15 October 2019, 11am to 3pm
Seminarraum Argentinierstraße 8, ground floor
Course requirement: you will need to also take the courses "Gegenwartskultur" and "Visuelle Kultur der Stadt".
