City of Bits - Mediating Architectures
Yona Schreyer
Institute of Arts and Society, Art and Knowledge Transfer
2025S, 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 that interconnect all our social, economic, cultural, and infrastructural elements. Within these large systems, we then build own smaller networks – trying to make the city work for us. A good city allows the interdependency of those smaller and bigger systems to be a space of mutual benefit, a place for our well-being, creativity, health, and progress. Yet, the multifaceted challenges of our time make our cities also become increasingly demanding places – serving many functions that can diametrically differ in size and nature.
What is it, then, that makes a good city? How are we part of its dynamics?
While too complex to fully comprehend a city, we can get to know its fragments, its bits, each at a time: decoding the growing complexity of our shared spaces amid the rapid changes we are facing, both on a local and global scale.
city of bits is a journey to the very notion of our shared urban networks, to both the visible and hidden aspects: from basic infrastructures to our own individual networks; from large-scale institutions to neighborhood encounter points; from mainstream narratives to our individual poetry – must the city work before we can make the city work for us? Can we transform its way of working through our view, care, engagement? And what are methods of critical spatial practice to do so?
During the seminar we put ourselves in conversation with our city, critically contrasting our poetry with the urban narratives, and our own role amid the urgent contemporary arguments and the significance of our shared spaces in mediating them. We’ll reflect and apply spatial practices, try to engage with our public spaces, urban commons, we'll look at the fringes, where city meets countryside, at digitalized urban infrastructures, and, particularly, at how architecture and urban spaces affect our encounters in urban space.
Comments
Excursions in and around Vienna, Monday and Tuesday mornings.
80% attendance + presentations + final discussion.
Dates
24 March 2025, 10:00–12:00 Seminar Room 22 , "kick off meeting "
28 April 2025, 09:30–12:00, "excursion i, meeting point: Angewandte Auditorium"
29 April 2025, 09:30–12:00, "excursion ii, meeting point: Sankt Marx Areal "
05 May 2025, 09:30–12:00, "excursion iii, meeting point: Stefan Weber Platz "
06 May 2025, 09:30–12:00, "excursion iv, meeting point: Thaliastraße"
12 May 2025, 09:30–12:00, "excursion v, meeing point: Rathaus Wien "
13 May 2025, 09:30–12:00, "excursion vi, meeting point: Seestadt Aspern"
19 May 2025, 08:45–11:15, "bonus excursion"
20 May 2025, 09:30–12:00, "excursion vii, meeting point: Reumannplatz"
26 May 2025, 09:30–12:00, "excursion viii, meeting point: Burggarten"
02 June 2025, 10:00–16:00 Seminar room 35 , "final discussion, individual appointments " (examination)
Course Enrolment
From 03 February 2025, 00:00
Via online registration
Curriculum Allocation
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (Enhancements study): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 071/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Enhancements study): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
TransArts - Transdisciplinary Arts (Bachelor): Theoretical foundations: Theoretical foundations 180/003.01
Expanded Museum Studies (Master): Electives: Art & Knowledge Transfer 537/080.26
Stage Design (2. Section): Kunsttheorie und Kulturwissenschaften: Kunst- und Wissenstransfer 542/207.05
Media Arts: Specialisation in Transmedia Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie und Geschichte : Kunst- und Wissenstransfer 566/208.14
Media Arts: Specialisation in Digital Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie, Geschichte: Kunst- und Wissenstransfer 567/208.14
Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (Master): Electives Area 2: Art and Knowledge Transfer 568/006.19
Design: Specialisation in Design and Narrative Media (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Fundamentals: Humanities 576/203.02
Design: Specialisation in Communication Design (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Humanities 577/203.02
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Media Theory,Art&Knowledge Transfer,Th. of Architecture,Th. and Hist. of Design 605/202.02
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Free Electives out of Scientific and Research Practice 605/202.80
Design: Specialisation in Applied Photography and Time-based Media (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Humanities 626/203.02
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Bachelor): Science and Technology: Deepening / Application 700/002.20
Co-registration: possible
Attending individual courses: possible