Abstract
This research employs an innovative, map-based interview method which invites participants to reassess their heritage entanglement with the global processes of art and technology exchange. The intervention seeks to disrupt the conception of art and architecture history as predominantly material, linear, singular, apolitical, and confined to the past. Thus, built heritage can increase awareness of current global debates that bridge across national borders and generational divides. In pursuit of this alternative framing, the research applies an interdisciplinary approach that views architecture movements through a geographic and sociological framework. The interview method provides participants with four local-to-global map scales on which they hand-draw their spatial identity layered with an architecture movement’s past to present, power hierarchies, and potential future. The initial field test engages approximately forty participants representing a variety of professional and geographic expertise about their interpretation of Bauhaus and the Amsterdam School at the respective origin locations in Weimar, Germany and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The first analysis phase focuses on the participants’ understanding of the potential future as a reflection of their meaning-making process, including their ability to vocalize previously subconscious knowledge. However, this intervention examines only a point-in-time and does not capture how the participants’ new cognizance changes their long-term positioning towards and within mainstream institutions. In application to other art and architecture movements, this map-based interview method can help to elevate the broad social implications of cultural flows across temporal and scalar contexts.
Presenters
Veronica PillerStudent, Research Master's Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
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Theme
2023 Special Focus—-New Aesthetic Expressions: The Social Role of Art
KEYWORDS
Participatory Mapping, Futurism, Global Exchange, Modern Architecture, Expressionist Architecture
