Topographien Wiener Spielkulturen
- Homo Ludens
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Project Partners
Duration
10 October 2023–16 January 2024
Keywords
Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Urbanism, Technical History
Description
Play is one of the elementary cultural techniques. No childhood was ever without games, no society is imaginable without them. In joint discussions, as part of excursions and guest lectures, Florian Bettel and Liddy Scheffknecht (Department of Cultural Studies), in cooperation with the Master’s programme Experimental Game Cultures and the participating students, examined – play as a contradictory and multidimensional cultural practice, analysed – the cultural-historical developments of individual games as processes of transcultural transfer and permanent exchange, and critically questioned – the concept of play and its current extension to what was long regarded as outside the magic circle in the culture of the bourgeoisie (“gamification”). The “Topographies of Viennese Play Cultures” are dedicated to the heterogeneous play spaces in Vienna. Based on specific locations, the individual contributions analyse a) the city as a rule-governed system in which contradictions and asynchronicities continuously produce new forms of play b) urban play as a moment of encounter, serendipity and a special form of sociability c) architecture and built structures that emphasise play, give it space, hide it or provoke it.
Status
Completed
Activity List
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- Stefan Poser - Lecturer
- Ernst Strouhal - Lecturer
- Thorsen, Sofie - Lecturer
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