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Instructors: Flavio Mancuso; Jenny Ohlenschlager; Prof. Antje Stokman
Event type:
Lecture, Seminar
Org-unit: Stadtplanung
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Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Location:
Hamburg
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Beschreibung:
Observatorium Botanica Urbana: Critical landscapes
When we talk about landscape the first thing that comes to mind are picturesque images in the distance, marked very often by alternating geological compositions, plants, trees, and here and there, not always, singular anthropogenic traces, almost unrecognizable. Such romanticized images, over the centuries for many artists object of enchantment and astonishment, today are turned into images of devastation. The visual scenery of the new century is largely characterized by the destruction of ecosystems, mass extinction of non-human species and an exponential evolution of technological systems. The few anthropogenic traces represented in most of the paintings of the past centuries have shifted within a hundred and fifty years into great forces capable of disrupting on a planetary level the equlibrium between ecosystems. We then realize that the landscape is not simply the translation into shapes and colors of what is in front of our eyes, but rather the result of the continuous interaction between man and natural environment. The landscape is constructed and continuously transformed. Behind the objects composing the space around us lie networks of interactions extending from the micro-scale of our daily lives to the planetary macro-scale of the imperceptible.
The - Observatorium Botanica urbana - is a recently created journal that narrates the landscape through the stories of its actors, forces, and processes that daily shape it.
In this semester under the name of “Critical landscapes”, we will try to deconstruct together the multiple social interactions that continuously transform our physical environment, in order to understand its complexities as well as its effects on natural ecosystems. Starting from an object or phenomenon identified in the landscape, students will attempt through observations, interviews, archival research, web and bibliographic material to deconstruct the multiple relationships behind things. These visual-ethnographic reports will be translated into - design objects - that will be exhibited in the semester's concluding exhibition organized by the students.
Kontakt:
flavio.mancuso@hcu-hamburg.de
antje.stokman@hcu-hamburg.de
Sonstige Information:
The course takes place in presence.
Teaching language: German, English
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