On Architecture (2024) Conference Proceedings, p. 212-217

Redesigning Media Living Spaces
Dr Christiane Wagner

https://doi.org/10.60152/x5f0bruz

Abstract: Challenges in media living spaces relate to the (de)construction of Western knowledge exploring utopian visual and digital structures. Embedded in the principle of utopia is the critical intention to discuss the social context that embodies sustainable values. The goal is to demonstrate that the aesthetic aspects of design performances and media images do not form autonomous discourses when political activity is considered a socially conscious part of this reality. The sensitive aspects of the media images and design performances include the content and political subject. The process involves examining how digital spatial models can, on the one hand, help overcome challenges related to differences and, on the other, create differences as a sense of otherness when developing new forms of urban life that must coexist with the past, present, and future. Decolonial contexts in hybrid realities found in global cities must also be examined. Modern Western societies under state participation have achieved autonomy through ethics and rationality, allowing science and philosophy to guide technological progress instead of myths and beliefs. As a result, new technologies have significantly impacted visual culture, politically and aesthetically influencing the creation of new images. Methodologically, this study discusses the transformative potential of utopian and dystopian visions through technique—under which the term art is included—as simulations of built environments for interactive living spaces aiming at integrated, human-centered, and public-interest design through media studies, aesthetics, and critical theory, evaluating the current public sphere and sustainability.

Keywords: public sphere, diversity, acculturation, invisible, visible, urban space

How to cite this Paper (Harvard referencing style):

Wagner, C. (2024) ‘Redesigning Media Living Spaces’, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Shaping the City through Architecture, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 212–217.

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On Architecture (2024) Conference Proceedings, p. 103-110

To Plurality and Synthesis — Tradition, Objects, and Body: An Anthropological Design Didactic Principle
Dr Aleksa Bijelovic

https://doi.org/10.60152/1erquotf

Abstract: A fragment of a broader enquiry on flexibility, this piece is an appreciation of the plurality of actors and dispersed factors of human conditions within the design practice. A primary mark is the academic learning domain of the so-called Western rites and their contemporary derivatives. Anthropological perspectives of this heritage, incited by the Maussian thoughts on techniques, are the conceptual framework for considering the major themes of interest.

With that in mind, while understanding inherited incompetency to apprehend varied accounts, thinking, and sources beyond one’s own cultural milieu and similar contexts — the concepts looked into here are employed to confront boundaries of cultural and societal and to shift focus to the realm of the individual as a premise of plurality. This notion of envisioned plurality is mainly examined through distinct human features isolated from the known structures of shared traditions and heritage while acknowledging the formative effects of their social origins.

Contrasted to the process of blending (of elements like behaviours, ideas, and experiences) that usually lead to modern ethical commonalities, social cohesion, historical traditions, and symbolic bonds — the synthesis issue discussed here is a divergent procedure. It is a revelation of the obvious. Individual traits (elements) reserve their primary form and join into a loose network of heterogeneous experiences of others, synthesising new appreciation, not decorum. Inevitably, this sort of synthesis also leads to potential structural formations, the nature of which is yet to be speculated.

Other sub-themes and fine points of interest are — tools of knowledge, material aspects and products of cognition, physical objects as didacts, and knowing-through-making.

An overarching dialectical umbrella will operate as a conveyance of comprehension to yield relevant practical points of academic learning.

Keywords: flexibility, learning, cognition, techniques

How to cite this Paper (Harvard referencing style):

Bijelovic, A. (2024) ‘To Plurality and Synthesis — Tradition, Objects, and Body: An Anthropological Design Didactic Principles’, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Shaping the City through Architecture, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 103–110.

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On Architecture (2024) Book of Abstracts

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ISBN 978-86-89111-35-4
https://doi.org/10.60152/apmvjfch

Explore the 2024 Book of Abstracts titled “On Architecture — Shaping the City through Architecture”, ISBN 978-86-89111-35-4, featuring key insights on architecture through various disciplinary lenses, including new aesthetics and functionalism, globalization, design methods and approaches, innovative materiality, technology, and new media.