Politics, Economics and Global Changes

Yona Schreyer
Institut für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Cross-Disciplinary Strategies
2024W, wissenschaftliches Seminar (SEW), 4.0 ECTS, 2.0 SemStd., LV-Nr. S05328

Beschreibung

AN ATLAS FOR UPENDING THE WORLD

 

Urban areas drive global change.

Our cities are not only our cultural, political, and economic hubs, they have also become home to the majority of all people worldwide and those places where many of the present day emergencies and crises manifest and get negotiated. As the number of city dwellers surges by the day, the urban land cover expands along with them – increasingly threatening ecosystems: over 400 cities worldwide are situated right within the 36 globally recognized biodiversity hotspots.

Leaning on the CDS overarching research theme Forecast, this seminar investigates on spatially explicit probabilities and predictions for the so-called “hotspot cities”, the fastest growing of all cities in the most critical biological areas. It is not only a way of familiarizing with the concrete global and regional struggles and trends for those urban areas, but also of delving into strategies around potential positive links between economic, social, and environmental strengths of development planning towards the UN New Urban Agenda.

The seminar approaches the theme through the element of maps – a central tool of urban planning and graphic device to facilitate knowledge exchange around expectancy and phenomena in correspondence (or contrast?) with reality – across a reduced, perhaps selective, representation.

The Atlas for the End of the World” by a research team at UPenn brings urbanization and conservation together, through essays, maps, data, and artwork. Building on this atlas, through this seminar we are aiming for a draft of the ATLAS FOR UPENDING THE WORLD, seeking for constructive and sustainably sensible strategies around the future of our urban habitat.

This way, the seminar becomes an attempt on how to free ourselves from cartographic manipulations, data classes, statistical thresholds, graphic code, and information hierarchy to underline our responsibilities in using the map as graphic information device between freedom and constraint ... 

 

... “Cartography is never merely about the drawing of maps: it is the making of worlds.” *

 

 

*Brian Harley, “Cartography, Ethics and Social Theory,” Cartographica 27, no. 2 (1990): 1- 23.

Prüfungsmodalitäten

80% attendance, presentation, and final discussion. 

Termine

22. Oktober 2024, 13:30–16:00 CDS Seminar Room
29. Oktober 2024, 13:30–16:00 CDS Seminar Room
05. November 2024, 13:30–16:00 CDS Seminar Room , „meeting point: Palais Mollard (Herrengasse 9, 1010 Wien) !!“
12. November 2024, 13:30–16:00 CDS Seminar Room
19. November 2024, 13:30–16:00 CDS Seminar Room
26. November 2024, 13:30–16:00 CDS Seminar Room
03. Dezember 2024, 13:30–16:00 CDS Seminar Room
10. Dezember 2024, 13:30–16:00 CDS Seminar Room
17. Dezember 2024, 13:30–16:00 CDS Seminar Room

LV-Anmeldung

Ab 26. August 2024, 00:00
Per Online Anmeldung

Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Master): Studienfelder 1-3: Studienfeld 3: Ökonomie und Politik 569/020.03

Design: Design und narrative Medien (2. Studienabschnitt): Methodische und theoretische Grundlagen: Ökonomie und Politik 576/203.03

Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Bachelor): Ökonomie und Politik: Vertiefungs-/Anwendungsphase 700/004.20

Mitbelegung: möglich

Besuch einzelner Lehrveranstaltungen: möglich