Architecture

Die Forschungsagentur Forensic Architecture untersucht Kriegsverbrechen und ökologische wie politische Krisen und bringt sie mit ihrer "Investigativen Ästhetik" (MACBA 2017) in den Ausstellungs- wie Gerichtssaal. Lisa Stuckey untersucht anhand der Figuration 'Law on Trial' – Gesetz und Recht vor Gericht, auf dem Prüfstand, zur Verhandlung –, weshalb ausgerechnet ästhetischen und poetischen forensischen Verfahren eine radikale Befragung sozialer Gerechtigkeit überantwortet wird.
In punktuellen Exkursen vergleicht die Studie Strategeme von Forensic Architecture mit denen der Medienkünstlerin Constanze Ruhm und der Poetin M. NourbeSe Philip. Nachdem das Recht im 18. Jahrhundert zum "Modellfall für Wissenssysteme" (Vismann/Weitin 2006) geworden ist, steht das heutige buchstäbliche Auf-die-Probe-Stellen von Recht im Zusammenhang mit einer neuen Dimension der Aufdeckung, die an die Institutionskritik der 1990er Jahre anschließt und zu einem Funktionswandel der Künste führt, in denen forensische Verfahren Konjunktur haben.

Veröffentlichung mit Unterstützung des Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

More than a thousand times per year, before every meal, people select, cut up, heat, mix and combine, and thus design raw materials and basic products for dishes and foods. What are the steps in the design process of treatment, and how associated decisions proceed from the selection of a food, to defining it as an eating object, all the way to consumption?

This book investigates where the forms of what we eat come from, which factors play a role in their design, and how eating objects also function as signs that convey their contents and meanings. The goal of this book is to expand and reflect upon our knowledge about the origin, content, and meaning of eating objects.

The training of teachers in arts universities is changing. It is confronted by the great challenge of essential cultural, technological, social and economic changes.

The symposium "Perspectives on Art Education" (Vienna, May 28 - 30, 2015) is dedicated to these changes: What does the training need today in terms of artistic practice, research, and communication skills? What explanations do historical and contemporary approaches offer? What new strategies are needed in teaching and learning? How can the diverse approaches to art education in different cultures, embedded in various national structures and school types complement and empower each other and jointly develop? 

How the relationships between education and outer space have developed historically is exemplified in an incisive way by the decades that followed the "Sputnik shock" of 1957. The wake-up call that resulted from the Soviet space program set the global landscape of learning in motion. New schools and universities came into being against the backdrop of the reform euphoria and mood of catastrophe. At the same time, traditional pedagogical concepts were severely called into question—including the call to do away with institutions of education. What is shown in the architectures of learning is not only a politics of space, but also the educational shock that intensively shook up the global societies of the 1960s and 1970s, while they were gradually being transformed into knowledge societies.