251.071 Wahlseminar Topos in architectural theory Abgesagt
Diese Lehrveranstaltung ist in allen zugeordneten Curricula Teil der STEOP.
Diese Lehrveranstaltung ist in mindestens einem zugeordneten Curriculum Teil der STEOP.

2017W, SE, 3.0h, 4.0EC
TUWEL

Merkmale

  • Semesterwochenstunden: 3.0
  • ECTS: 4.0
  • Typ: SE Seminar

Ziele der Lehrveranstaltung

Aerial view of the Maasvlakte 2 addition to Rotterdam harbour

Aerial view of the Maasvlakte 2 addition to Rotterdam harbour

Aerial view of the Maasvlakte 2 addition to Rotterdamharbour

Crystalizing Messages: Percolating and Remembering Space

How does information circulate in space and how do we attempt to organise it? How does space retain memory? Conversely, how does memory organise space?

Information always circulates; people, goods and messages come and go. Some of this movement is visible in form of material accumulations, evidence of the journey or what we would like to call 'crystalized messages'. In this seminar, we will consider proposals for structuring memory as archives, databases, maps, objects, layers and finally as ever ongoing communication. The reading list combines writings from contemporary scholars with technical accounts of memory, storage and representation. From Serre's observation that everything in
the world communicates to Bratton's model of the world as a stack of materialities, we will cover contemporary theory that discusses organisation of space through memory. 

Sessions:

1. Tuesday, 10.10.2017 [Introduction]

2. Tuesday, 17.10.2017 [Archive, Database]

3. Wednesday, 18.10.2017 [Database, Memory]

4. Tuesday, 31.10.2017 [Traces]

5. Tuesday, 07.11.2017 [Geometry]

6. Tuesday, 21.11.2017 [Object / Inaccessible]

7. Wednesday, 22.11.2017 [Objects / Digital]

8. Tuesday, 28.11.2017 [Objects / Crystal]

9. Tuesday, 05.12.2017 [Communication]

10. Tuesday, 12.12.2017 [Communucation]

11. Wednesday, 13.12.2017 [Anamnesis]

12. Tuesday, 09.01.2018 - Student presentations

13. Tuesday, 16.01.2018 - Student presentations

Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung

Reading on a specific topic will be assigned for each session and discussed in class. This weekly seminar will comprise a lecture, followed by an open discussion. Students will learn how to productively read critical as well as technical texts, understand the author's position and philosophical, political and cultural implications of their writing. They will be encouraged to make lineages between architectural theory and philosophy of information and communication technics. Finally, they will learn to debate and present issues in contemporary architectural theory.

Weitere Informationen

Ort: Dienstags, 13:00-16.00 Uhr Seminarraum ATTP, Wiedner Hauptstr. 7, Stiege 2, 1. Stock

Beginn: Erstes Treffen am Institut 10. Oktober 2017, 13:00 Uhr/ Seminarraum Architekturtheorie, Wiedner Hauptstr.7/1. Stock.

Beachten Sie beim Verfassen der Ausarbeitung bitte die Richtlinie der TU Wien zum Umgang mit Plagiaten: Leitfaden zum Umgang mit Plagiaten (PDF)

Vortragende Personen

  • Savic, Selena

Institut

Leistungsnachweis

Written bachelor Thesis and a mid-term presentation within the seminar.
Participation in discussions is expected. Literature will be in English. It is possible to present and write the essay in German or in English.

Bewerbung

TitelBewerbungsbeginnBewerbungsende
Wahlseminare WS 17_1815.09.2017 09:0025.09.2017 23:59

Curricula

StudienkennzahlVerbindlichkeitSemesterAnm.Bed.Info
033 243 Architektur Keine Angabe6. SemesterSTEOP
Lehrveranstaltung erfordert die Erfüllung der Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase STEOP

Literatur

Literature (preliminary list):

1. Abbas, Y. (2016). The Cartography of Ambiance. Presented at the 3rd International Congress on Ambiances: Ambiances, Tomorrow.

2. Ballard Delbert L. (1971). Computer memory storage device. Google Patents. Retrieved from https://www.google.com/patents/US3573485

3. Bergson, H. (1911). Matter and Memory. London: Swan Sonnenschein.

4. Borges, J. L. (n.d.). The Library of Babel.

5. Bratton, B. H. (2015). The stack: on software and sovereignty. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

6. Galloway, A. R. (2014). Laruelle: against the digital. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

7. Hayles, N. K. (2007). Narrative and Database: Natural Symbionts. PMLA, 122(5), 1603–1608.

8. Hui, Y. (2012). What is a Digital Object? Metaphilosophy, 43(4), 380–395. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9973.2012.01761.x

9. Hui, Y. (2017). On a Possible Passing from the Digital to the Symbolic. In A. Franke & H. Kim (Eds.), 2 oder 3 Tigers. Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Retrieved from https://www.hkw.de/en/tigers_publication/index.php

10. Mattern, S. (2016). Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization. Cultural Politics, 12(3), 310–331. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-3648870

11. Mattern, S. (2017). A City Is Not a Computer. Places Journal, (2017). https://doi.org/10.22269/170207

12. Morton, T. (2013). Hyperobjects: philosophy and ecology after the end of the world. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

13. Noll, A. M. (1967). A computer technique for displaying n-dimensional hyperobjects. Communications of the ACM, 10, 469–473. https://doi.org/10.1145/363534.363544

14. Parisi, L. (2013). Contagious architecture: computation, aesthetics, and space. Cambridge, Massachusetts l London, England: The MIT Press.

15. Serres, M. (1982). The Origin of Geometry. In J. V. Harari & D. F. Bell (Eds.), Hermes: Literature, Science, Philosophy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

16. Serres, M. (2014). Information and Thinking.

17. Serres, M. (2017). Geometry: the third book of foundations. London New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

A document with all the texts will be provided at the beginning of the seminar. 

 

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Sprache

bei Bedarf in Englisch