Kunst, Technik und Naturphilosophie I Vera Bühlmann (TUVienna)

Celebrating Knots in their Splendour: Anonymous Imagination and the Screen of Light

Vortrag von Vera Bühlmann (Professor for architecture theory at TU Vienna)

Kunst, Technik und Naturphilosophie

Im Rahmen vom Modul Emerging Fields in Architecture (++), Vortragsreihe: PERSPEKTIVEN, HB2, TU Wien

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Das Modul Emerging Fields in Architecture vermittelt aktuelles Wissen aus neuen Forschungsfeldern in architektur- und ingenieurswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, mit dem Ziel aktuelle und zukünftige Entwurfsherausforderungen im breiteren gesellschaftlichen Kontext fachübergreifend und grundlegend zu bearbeiten. Die Vorlesungen vermitteln Kenntnisse über unterschiedliche und fachübergreifende Zugänge zur Entwurfsfindung, aktuelle Entwicklungen und Resultate der Material- und Bauweisenforschung, über das Planen und Bauen unter/in extremen Bedingungen sowie über Strukturen die sich aufgrund von wechselnden Parametern verändern bzw. entwickeln.

In diesem Zusammenhang werden Strategien zur Entwurfsfindung (von der ersten Idee bis zur Umsetzung) im interdisziplinären Diskurs hinterfragt, und der Frage nachgegangen wie sich der Weg von der Idee zur Realisierung gestalten kann und inwieweit es möglich ist systematisch kreativ zu sein.

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PERSPEKTIVEN

weiter bauen l Dietmar Feichtinger (Architekt, Hochbau, Konstruktion und Entwerfen TU Wien)

• Do 24.10.2024 18:00 AudiMax TU Wien

KI: Chancen, Herausforderungen, Anwendungen l Stefan Woltran (Databases and Artificial Intelligence, TU Wien)

• Mo 28.10.2024 17:00 HS El 8 Pötzl

Wofür es Technische Universitäten gibt oder: Auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit gibt es keinen Endpunkt l Jens Schneider (Bauingenieur, Rektor TU Wien)

• Mo 04.11.2024 17:00 HS El 8 Pötzl

Kunst, Technik und Naturphilosophie l Vera Bühlmann (Architekturtheorie und Technikphilosophie, TU Wien)

• Mo 02.12.2024 17:00 HS El 11 Geodäsie

Urban Sensors l Myrto Vitart (Ibos&Vitart, Architect, Guestprofessor TU Wien) (Talk in English)

• Do 09.01.2025 18:00 AudiMax TU Wien

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Vera Bühlmann is professor for architecture theory at TU Vienna, where she directs the Research Unit Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics ATTP since 2016 (attp.tuwien.ac.at). She studied English literature and linguistics, philosophy, and media theory at Zurich University and Basle University in Switzerland. Before joining the faculty at TU Vienna she taught at different Schools for Art and Design in Switzerland as well as ETH Zurich, and in 2012/13 she was visiting researcher at the NUS Singapore-ETH Zurich Future Cities Laboratory. In 2020 she co-founded the inter-institutional online School for Materialist Research SMR (schoolofmaterialistresearch.org) and since 2023 she acts as a founding director of the Meteora Academy Buti (Italy), a place for academic exchange in Tuscany to revive the linkage between natural philosophy and artistic research. She is senior editor of two book series: applied virtuality book series with Birkhäuser (since 2012, with 21 volumes published) and Meridian Architectonics with TU Academic Press (since 2024). Her most recent monograph is titled The Digital, a Continent? Nature and Poetics (Birkhäuser, 2023), and in October 2024 the first issue of Convivia, Journal for Architectonics was published on the topic of "Filth".

Natural philosophy names the pre-modern tradition of doing science in a way that is not quite metaphysics but also not not metaphysical: it involves principles (first things) and ratiocinations (mathematical thinking, metricity), it composes machinations (ideations that "work", physically functioning machines) – but philosophically, it resigns from aspiring to integrate its knowledge all into one coherent and exhaustive system. This commitment to Entwurf is what has always linked architecture (and its theorisation) to natural philosophy in the Renaissance legacy of generalist thought: it relates mechanics to the cosmos not only by representational "drawings" but by active "displays" of analogical set ups, where a house or a city is a miniature (a building) of the macroscale ideation (cosmos). This talk will expand on Fritz Haller’s 1987 project "Space Colony" as a case example to think about the Digital Renaissance we arguably find ourselves in today. Haller presented this project in a book aptly titled Bauen und Forschen (1987), and by exploring speculatively how this project has been thought, I will discuss it as the scientific and artistic parabolic mirror play of a "place" to think considerately – not quite a utopia but also not not utopian – about the changes in world that are underway with scientific progress.