Forschung - Visual Culture

Research
FWF

Incorporating Informality

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.

Research
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.

Der Schwerpunkt unserer Aktivitäten liegt in der Konzeption und Umsetzung langfristiger interdisziplinärer Projekte, in denen wir mit einem globalen Netzwerk von Forscher*innen und Praktiker*innen zusammenarbeiten.

Kernthemen dieser Projekte sind unter anderem:

■ Partizipation, Diversität und soziale Gerechtigkeit in den Netzwerken globaler Wissensproduktion
■ Einbindungen von informeller Urbanität in die neue ökonomische Weltordnung
■ Räume des Aufschwungs neuer Datenöffentlichkeiten und Plattformindustrien
■ Politische Ökologie, Umweltaktivismus und die Produktion von Natur
■ Diskursiv-kritische Handlungsräume des Kuratorischen
■ Stadtkapital, Bauspekulation und die Architektur des Finanzwesens
■ Urbane Transformation und die Politik territorialer Entwicklung
■ Ordnungsverlust, Strukturbrüche und die Krise der Maßstäblichkeit im 21. Jahrhundert

Im Rahmen dieser Projekte erstellt der Forschungsbereich VISUELLE KULTUR Beiträge zum öffentlichen Diskurs über die gebaute Umwelt, hilft mit neue Praxisfelder der Architektur zu schaffen und bietet Doktorand*innen und Postdoc-Forscher*innen wichtige Unterstützung in der Entwicklung ihrer wissenschaftlichen bzw. künstlerischen Laufbahnen.

In/formal Marketplaces

Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer
nai010 Publishers

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

Data Publics

Exploring potentials of civic empowerment through reframing contemporary understandings of ‘data’ and ‘public,’ this project investigates one of the most pressing questions of our time: How can we ensure that the increasing power of data publics is wielded not only over people but also by people for people?

Research
Bundeskulturstiftung

World of Matter

World of Matter investigates primary materials (fossil, mineral, agrarian, maritime) and the complex ecologies of which they are a part in a search for new forms of representation that shift resource-related debates from a market driven domain to open platforms for engaged public discourse.

Research
FWF

Other Markets

By bringing the spatial practices and the cultural mechanisms that sustain informal markets centre stage, Other Markets refers to the current redefinition of the urban system not purely as an effect of accelerated globalisation but as a field of interactions between particular emergent assemblages.

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.

Research

Building Capital

Drawing on two decades of global fieldwork, this research examines emergent arenas of ‘building capital’ – the architectural signification and facilitation of investment processes – that have crystallised around new urban frontiers.

Research
ERC

Networked Cultures

Departing from sites of geopolitical conflicts and social confrontations, the Networked Cultures project aims to reconsider the cultural transformations under way in Europe through examining the potentials and effects of networked spatial practices.

Research
FWF

relational architecture

This research project investigates how current changes in society are impacting on the development of our built environment. It focuses, in particular, on how architects, artists and theorists have responded to these challenges by collectively exploring new formats, alliances and arenas of spatial practice.

Unsere Forschungsprojekte werden von nationalen und internationalen Förderorganisationen der Grundlagenforschung unterstützt.