ModulMETA:ARCHITEKTUR

259.332

Institute of Architecture Sciences/Department of Architecture

Theory E259.4

META:ARCHITEKTUR 259.332

This module examines different strategies of positioning architecture in the public eye. It extends its interest to the possibilities of communication, among architects, architects and other cultures and so forth. Issues discussed include •academic and (non) academic texts•exhibitions •PR strategies, •expert- layperson communication•the social reception of architecture

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The module is useful for anyone who wants to specialize as:

•independent writer on architecture•researcher,•journalist, •curator,•exhibition designer,•mediator•or a PR specialist in an office

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Semester Focus: MEDIATING THE CITY

Recommended supplement:253.713 Communicative energies: planning culture and

mediation

Flashy JournalsOliver Schürer (VO 2 ECTS)

Moving ImagesDörte Kuhlmann (VO 2 ECTS)

Talking CuresKatharina Tielsch, Mathias Mitteregger (VO 2 ECTS)

Constitutive Discourses Ana-Maria Simionovici (VO 1 ECTS)

Cagey FabricationsKuhlmann, Simionovici (UE 3 ECTS)

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Technics and CivilizationOliver Schürer (VO 2 ECTS)

Theory of FilmArturo Silva (VO 3 ECTS)

recommendedExercise / Theory of Filmvan der Hoorn, Kuhlmann, Silva (UE 4,5 ECTS)

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ELECTIVES

Moving Images, WED 9:15-10:30 Dörte Kuhlmann (VO 2 ECTS)

Constitutive Discourses, WED 10:30-11:30 Ana-Maria Simionovici (VU 2 ECTS)

Flashy Journals, WED 11:30-13:00Oliver Schürer (VO 2 ECTS)

Talking Cures, WED 15:30-17:00Katarina Tielsch, Mathias Mitteregger (VO 2 ECTS)

MI, 19.11./ 26.11.2013/ 7.1. / 21.1.2014 10:00-16:00

In this course students will intensify their research within a module course of their choice. In consultation with the instructor, the student chooses the appropriate form for the creative output:•exhibition design•PR strategy•journalistic text•scholarly text•analysis

Cagey Fabrications, WED 15:30-17:00Dörte Kuhlmann, Ana-Maria Simionovici, (UE 3 ECTS)

Semester Focus: Smart City, Big Data and the future of cities

Technics and Civilization, WED 14:00 – 15:30Oliver Schürer (VO 2,5 ECTS)

Theory of Film, WED 14:00 – 15:30Arturo Silva (VO 3 ECTS)

Exercise Theory of Film, WED 14:00 – 15:30van der Hoorn, Kuhlmann, Silva (UE 4,5 ECTS)

Semester Focus: Short Films about Architecture

STARTING8.10. 201411:00

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