Urban-matters.org offers a growing survey of (public)art projects, organizations and institutions of diverse cultural and geo-political backgrounds worldwide for locating and connecting urgent urban issues and discussing innovative urbanistic-artistic approaches, tools and methods at the intersection of art, urban planning, critical political involvement and theory engaged in urban issues on a longer term perspective for urban planning, addressing the following questions:
How can we develop new visions for urban and regional matters and introduce new social and societal values as intrinsic aspect for urban development? Which role can art and artistic strategies play in the context of urban issues and urban development? How can art maintain its autonomy within processes of urban planning? How can ¿urban practitioners¿ in their transdisciplinary roles achieve a position recognized as equal to other experts engaged in urban planning? Which conditions are needed to install new tools and strategies for urban planning?
The goal of urban-matters.org is not only to provide an overview of the manifold projects and initiatives engaged in developing new methods, but to learn from other contexts. Therefore extracting the tools, strategies and issues of the projects and their various contexts is a major component to turn the database into an eminent ressource for urban planning departments, organizations and residents.
In the seminar the students will research relevant projects worldwide, as well as texts/ publications related to the topic, and will develop ideas for communicating urban-matters.org to the international community. The students will thus actively contribute to urban-matters.org.
Dates:
1_Thu, March 9, 17-19:00, Seminarraum CA0322 Gußhausstr. 27-29: Introduction to urban-matters.org: artistic-urbanistic strategies for societally engaged urban planning
> first research of projects
2_Thu, March 16, 17-19:00, Sem AC0440: intensive research: discussion of the first researched projects, texts and artistic strategies
> further research
3_Thu, March 23, 17-19:00, Sem AC0440: discussion of the first researched projects, texts and artistic strategies
> selection of projects, contacting the authors of projects
4_Thu, March 30, 17-19:00, Sem AC0440: feedback and update on researched projects
5_Thu, April 27, 17-19:00, Sem AC0440: feedback > preparing material for upload on urban-matters.org
6_Thu, May 11, 9,17-19:00, Sem AC0440: feedback > preparing material for upload on urban-matters.org
7_Thu, May 25, 17-19:00: as option at Sem AF022;
8_Thu, June 22, 17-21:00, Seminarraum CA0322 Gußhausstr. 27-29: presentation of materials for upload on urban-matters.org
In this seminar independant research, collective discussion and mutual learning are essential.
