After successful completion of the course, students are able to analyze and evaluate the results of their research (projects, texts and other materials) for the web-database urban-matters.org (relaunch October 2020) with regard to their relevance. This course provides a profound insight into the current discourse on urban issues and critical artistic-urbanistic practice and enlarges the international network of the students for their future career.
Urban-matters.org is an international web database which Barbara Holub installed in the frame of her research project " Planinng Unplanned" (see the publication: Planning Unplanned. Can Art Have a Function? Towards a New Function of Art in Society", eds. Christine Hohenbüchler/ Barbara Holub, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2015).
Urban-matters.org offers a growing survey of (public)art projects, organizations and institutions of diverse cultural and geo-political backgrounds worldwide for locating and connecting urgent urban issues and discussing innovative urbanistic-artistic approaches, tools and methods at the intersection of art, urban planning, critical political involvement and theory engaged in urban issues on a longer term perspective for urban planning, addressing the following questions:
How can we develop new visions for urban and regional matters and introduce new social and societal values as intrinsic aspect for urban development? Which role can art and artistic strategies play in the context of urban issues and urban development? How can art maintain its autonomy within processes of urban planning? How can urban practitioners in their transdisciplinary roles achieve a position recognized as equal to other experts engaged in urban planning? Which conditions are needed to install new tools and strategies for urban planning?
The goal of urban-matters.org is not only to provide an overview of the manifold projects and initiatives engaged in developing new methods, but to learn from other contexts. Therefore extracting the tools, strategies and issues of the projects and their various contexts is a major component to turn the database into an eminent ressource for urban practitioners, urban planning departments, (community) organizations and residents.
In the seminar the students will research relevant projects worldwide, as well as texts/ publications related to the topic, and will develop ideas for communicating urban-matters.org to the international community.
The students will thus not only actively contribute to urban-matters.org, but will have the opportunity to connect to international innovative artistic-urbanistic practices and grow their professional network.
The first cours is mantatory. It ist highly recommanted to be present at all courses.The here mentioned dates serve for feedback on researched projects the students will carry out independently between these dates.
Students from various cultural backgrounds are especially invited to make use of their mother tongues for researching projects in other countries.The cours will be in english and german.
Thu, 06.10.2022, 18-20:00 Introduction to www.urban-matters.org
Thu, 20.10.2022, 17-19:00 Website: organizations, projects, texts, tools and strategies
Thu, 17.11.2022. 17-19:00 Discussion of the researched projects and texts; selection
Thu, 01.12.2022, 17-19:00 Discussion of the researched projects and texts; selection
Thu, 15.12.2022, 17-19:00 contacting the authors of the projects
Thu, 12.01.2023, 17-19:00 collecting information by the authors, preparing texts for www.urban-matters.org
Thu, 26.01.2023, 17-19:00 finalizing the contributions and publishing on www.urban-matters.org
LOCATION: Lecture Room AC0440 (4. OG, Stg. 4 Raum-Nr. AC0440, 110,00m², ca. 50 Sitzplätze) Karlsplatz 13
Researching projects for urban-matters.org; the students will research on their own: In the mentioned dates/ meetings we will discuss
their researched projects and publications as well as their relevance for urban-matters.org; Contacting the authors
of relevant projects and requesting material; Writing texts for the presentation of projects on urban-matters.org.
interest in research - and possibly - knowledge on artistic-urbanistic projects related to innovative planning strategies in the international context;
The publication "Planning Unplanned" is the major basis of the seminar and must be studied as prerequisite: It is available at the Institute for Art and Design 1 and can be downloaded here.
