City of Bits - Mediating Architectures
Yona Schreyer
Arts and Society, Art and Knowledge Transfer
2020W, scientific seminar (SEW), 4.0 ECTS, 2.0 semester hours, course number S03461
Description
City of Bits
An expedition into what makes a city
Our cities are complex systems interconnecting social, economic, and infrastructural elements. Within these systems, we build our own networks around us and make individual choices to make the city work for us. We depend on the existence of the different systems for all the services we cannot originally provide, yet the essence of what makes our cities the productive engines and creative hubs of nations, lies in our social interactions: how we live, work, and create together. The platform that enables the mutual benefit between urban system and social interactions is space. Urban space effects our urban behaviour.
So, what qualities do urban spaces need to offer to make cities pleasant places to live in? Spatial conditions that allow our own networks and social interaction to function while protecting us from challenges that could stop us from being productive.
„City of Bits“ will be a journey to the small networks of human interaction, the bits within the urban pattern, that ultimately influence the success of a city through the perspective of scale. The dimension, design, materiality, and character of urban architectures influence the scale of our productive human interaction. The seminar will perform this journey in local expeditions to diverse urban spatial typologies of multiple scale and use, to observe the quality and quantity of human interaction along the level of porosity of urban architecture between public space and private realm.
In our rapidly urbanizing world, the seminar will then turn to a broader global lens, connecting the local observations with urban examples worldwide, comparing and debating the challenges of urban density also amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion aims to offer new perspectives on what ultimately matters towards a more sustainable transformation of our cities: the scale of human interaction.
Examination Modalities
Übung mit Abschlussgespräch. Anwesenheitspflicht 80%.
Comments
Zweiwöchentliches Blockseminar, VL und Stadtexkursionen.
Course Enrolment
Via online registration
Curriculum Allocation
co-registration: possible
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Art Education: subject tex (Master): Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE
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Art Education: subject dae (Bachelor): FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis
Art Education: subject dae (Master): Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE
Art Education: subject dae (Enhancements study): FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis
Art Education: subject dex (Bachelor): FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis
Art Education: subject dex (Master): Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE
Art Education: subject dex (Enhancements study): FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis
TransArts - Transdisciplinary Arts (Bachelor): Theoretical foundations
Stage Design (1. Section): Kunst- und Wissenstransfer
Stage Design (2. Section): Kunst- und Wissenstransfer
Media Arts: Specialisation in Transmedia Arts (2. Section): Kunst- und Wissenstransfer
Media Arts: Specialisation in Digital Arts (2. Section): Kunst- und Wissenstransfer
Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (Master): Electives Area 2
Design: Specialisation in Graphic Design (2. Section): Humanities
Design: Specialisation in Graphics and Advertising (2. Section): Humanities
subject Fine Arts / Art and Communication Practices (1. Section): Aus Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (2.5 ECTS)
subject Fine Arts / Art and Communication Practices (2. Section): Aus Kunst und Kulturwissenschaften, (davon min. 4 SSt SE) (2.5 ECTS)
subject Handicrafts / Design, Architecture and Environment (1. Section): Aus Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (2.0 ECTS)
subject Handicrafts / Design, Architecture and Environment (2. Section): Aus Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, (min. 4 SSt SE) (2.5 ECTS)
subject Textile Design / Textiles - Art, Design, Styles (1. Section): Aus Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (2.0 ECTS)
subject Textile Design / Textiles - Art, Design, Styles (2. Section): Aus Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (mind. 4 SSt SE) (2.5 ECTS)
Fine Arts (2. Section): Media Theory,Art&Knowledge Transfer,Th. of Architecture,Th. and Hist. of Design
Fine Arts (2. Section): Free Electives out of Scientific and Research Practice
Design: Specialisation in Applied Photography and Time-based Media (2. Section): Humanities
Individual courses: possible