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16-17 January 2025

OMNI ACCESS: Post- and decolonical perspectives on the platformed city

Two-day symposium, Goldsmiths, London

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The Department of VISUAL CULTURE brings together comprehensive professional and methodological competencies at the interface of contemporary art, architecture and theory.

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September 2025

OCEAN AS METAPHOR AND EMBODIMENT

Ocean and Society - new article out now!

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September 2025

DECOLONISING OCEAN MATTER

Ocean and Society - new article out now!

In/formal Marketplaces

Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer
nai010 publishers

Research
FWF

Investigating the heterogenous nature of policy interventions in informal marketplaces around the world, this research seeks to map the rising role of formal-informal linkages in experimental urban planning.

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BMKOES

WE LIKE – BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2021

The Austrian Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2021, curated by PETER MÖRTENBÖCK and HELGE MOOSHAMMER, shines light on the profound influence digital platforms are exercising on the ways we live together.

Research
FWF

platFORMed city

Drawing on the rich legacy of twentieth century artistic enquiries into spatial patterns, this project aims to expand our understanding of the ways in which data technologies and platform services have massively changed our participation in basic aspects of urban life.

Research
FWF

City Layers

The project seeks to set up an innovative framework for city-mapping which centres on citizen experience of urban space. It recognises the citizen science approach as a radically democratic and urgent approach for identifying the essential components which constitute a city.

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Dissertation
Deyvi Papo

RETRO-PROSPECTIVE CITYSCAPES

Dissertation
Lovro Koncar-Gamulin

City Layers

Dissertation
Nicolaj Kirisits

Architektur des Hörens

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Team

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03.08.2022

2022-2023 GUEST PROFESSOR OFRI CNAANI AND PROFESSORIAL RESEARCH FELLOW STEFANO HARNEY

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08.04.2024, 20:00

From Essentials to Experiences

Book launch and book swap at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam

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05.05.2023, 16:00

DATA IS A RELATION NOT A PROPERTY

DumBO, Bologna: The exhibition DATA IS A RELATION NOT A PROPERTY stages a profound and timely account of the „flattening“ of existence, with a specific focus on the ways in which digital platforms transform urban lives.