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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2018 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Ksenia Vytuleva (ksenia.vytuleva@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | One of the most unexplored world’s laboratories for urban ideas still remains the phenomenon of a Socialist City. A testing ground for extreme utopian visions, a terrain for radical architectural phantasies and social experiments, in a way, Socialist City became an intriguing black box with an unlimited scale of urban research and innovation caused by political, social, technological and artistic transformations. This seminar considers Socialist Urbanism as part of a broader cultural history. The response of architectural thought to the machine, as well as the intersection of political propaganda, literature, art and cinematography will be examined. Special attention will be paid to the unconventional strategies of urban design, aesthetics and social solutions, as well as new forms of architectural media and knowledge productions. A significant part of the course is on the paradoxes of a Socialist City as a cinematic city. From the Avant Garde spatial experiments (Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein) - to dystopian zonings in Tarkovsky`s Solaris, cinematic dark rooms interrogate the trajectory of future Socialist Cities and its legacies. Film also plays more obscure role connecting to questions of enlightenment and electrification, nostalgia and collective memories. In addition to classroom lectures and discussion, students will engage with documentaries and architectural movies about building the “New Urban”, where the notions of montage and territorial thinking are being taken to the whole new extreme. Finally, the course investigates the theoretical and scientific platforms standing behind the planning methods of the Socialist Green City, the Linear City and Soviet Cybernetic City. The essential goal of this seminar is to embrace the extent to which architecture and urban logic came to be intimately connected to the expanded exercises of political power and planning – re-imagining Socialist City as a cultural construct and a myth. |
| Lernziele | This course allows to trace large trajectories of ideologically and politically charged urban experiments, where questions of architecture and image theory radically expand into the fields of governance, politics, law, ethics, science, medicine and hygiene, colonial studies, ecology and even experimentation in climate zoning. It also allows us to revisit the unforeseen histories of social procedures. The class aims to develop competence in identifying, understanding, and analysing the complexities and contradictions of such a vibrant cultural phenomenon of the XX’s century, as Socialist City and its meaning for contemporary architectural practices and the artistic environment. It will allow students to gain proficiency in the use of methodological, historiographical, visual, and intellectual tools necessary to grasp the meanings of the Avant–Garde artistic thought, its cross-disciplinary and synthetic nature. The course will engage students to read Socialist City critically, and possess the confidence to integrate and apply their learning to solving complex problems of today’s scholarship. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| HörerInnen willkommen |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul: Gesellschaft in Osteuropa (Bachelor Studienfach: Osteuropäische Kulturen) Modul: Gesellschaft in Osteuropa (Bachelor Studiengang: Osteuropa-Studien) Modul: Projects and Processes of Urbanization (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Urban Studies |