Cultural Studies – Media – Urbanism
Since last autumn, the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz has been operating a cross-curricular and interdisciplinary research platform aimed at the focusing and further development of research findings and questions relating to architecture, cultural studies, media studies, media art and urbanism. The objective lies in integrating existing and newly emerging projects, curricula and artistic as well as scientific work methods and techniques in an overarching research venture that paradigmatically incorporates all three constituent pillars of the University’s profile – intermediality, which focuses on the potentials for artistic, scientific and socio-cultural knowledge transfer that are inherent in media as such as well as in the work with media; spatial strategies, which above all mark the interface between the disciplines of architecture, design, urban planning and urban research, ecology and media; and artistic-scientific research, which combines artistic practice and scientific research, concrete application and freelance design and moreover searches for new formats of documenting, analysing and describing such hybrid research processes. For this reason, both theoretical and artistic research projects and approaches are developed; transcending conventional research practice, they aim at transdisciplinary or interdisciplinary research and identify new forms of visualisation. The results of the research platform are to contribute towards the observation, capturing, exploration, modelling and representation of contemporary cities and their medialisation