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The essay focuses on the criticism of technology-centered urbanism, demanding a new role of the arts in urban design. Unfolding the course of history of the city in the urban age – from Industrial Revolution to Knowledge Society – key vectors dominating the urban development are discussed. The aim is to open up a larger conceptual field for interventions in the urban environment. The essay promotes Art as an ‘Urban Innovator’.
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12.1.1 A.1 body_tecture
The project has been developed within the ‘Aspect of Space’ programme, an architectural programme for non-architectural students at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
The aim of this programme was to develop tools and strategies to transform architectural demands - to shape the idea of space. Substantiating these demands offers the students the chance to understand arts as an urban innovator and as a means of taking [spatial] position.
body_tecture reconstructs the existing built environment as body language, unfolding their spatial behavior. This unique approach creates descriptions of the external communication structure of the built object as well as its building geometry and its structural performance. Unexpected spatial qualities in terms of tension flow are revealed.
As a design strategy body_tecture describes a conceptual tool comparable to ‘blind drawings’ eliminating visual control of the action. Like drawings produced by the unconscious, body_tecture produces a ‘speechless’ figure-ground relation (Fig. 12.2).
body_tecture by Lisa Mijsbergh
12.1.2 A.2 City Score_The Nanjing Notation Project
The Nanjing Notation Project (Nanjing University of Arts, 2012) was about representing the city’s physical body by its construed perception. It was about re-scripting and transposing the cityscape into a soundscape, focusing on the interrelation of space and sound. Acoustics as a tool to describe an urban situation is not very common in city planning. If ever recognized in this field, acoustical experiences are then classified as noise pollution. In contrast to this general attitude, all acoustical sensations were treated as relevant sources of spatial-descriptions. They had not been approached beyond their solely physical existence and technological description before. Aiming at identifying elements of communal and cultural interaction, instruments and strategies for urban analysis and intervention were developed. Classical instruments of city planning - like spatial density – were not described in numbers, but by the intensity of physical presence – such as spaces, buildings, sounds or people.
In the Nanjing Notation Project, the interaction of all acoustical phenomena produced in the space and by the space were recorded and transformed into a notation system, unfolding the unique soundscape of a city. The identification and descriptive determination of all different quantities and qualities were transcribed into a 3D-code system: the city score (Figs. 12.3 and 12.4).
Nanjing Notation Project _ The City Score (physical model)
Nanjing Notation Project _ interrelation of space and sound
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Falkeis, A. (2015). Thinking Out of the Urban Design Toolbox. In: Bast, G., Carayannis, E., Campbell, D. (eds) Arts, Research, Innovation and Society. Arts, Research, Innovation and Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09909-5_12
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