Lungomare, 19.00 h
Networks have becoming the guideline of how to live in a community in the 21st century. Through means of information technology and communication they have changed the forms of emersion and expression of cultural identity in a decisive way. Moving from this background, the conference discusses the dynamics and potential of the emerging social and cultural networks, and therefore the way in which they make their appearance as innovative forms of the experience of space. To examine the role which architecture takes on in the construction of cultural identity, the speakers will refer to their current research into spaces of conflict and the processes of trans-urbanization . Although the urban concrete seems to be progressively becoming an artificial construction, it remains – in updated form – a central scenario for relations between traditions, narrations, and “competing” values, as much in Europe as in other regions of the world.
Peter Mörtenböck is a professor of visual arts at the Technical University in Vienna and guest lecturer at the Department of Visual Cultures of Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Helge Mooshammer is a researcher at the Technical University in Vienna and lecturer at the Department of Visual Cultures of Goldsmiths College.