Seminarwoche
Saint Petersburg: out of focus
Seminarwoche (051-0901)
Veranstalter: Professur Ursprung
Dozierende: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Zeit: 20.10.2014 - 25.10.2014
Ort: HIL Hönggerberg Rote Hölle
MONDAY, 20 OCTOBER, 2014 TO SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER, 2014
PARTICIPANTS: MAX. 16 STUDENTS
COSTS: CATEGORY D, MAX. CHF 950;- (FLIGHT, HOTEL, ENTRANCE FEES)
INTRODUCTORY MEETING: THURSDAY 18.09.14 /15:30 H /HIL E 7
Saint Petersburg is the very emblem of a city created ex nihilo. Designed in a remote, swampy area as the capital of the Russian Empire in the early 18th century, the city is a product of perspectives and plans, a built image. Nowhere else can we study the architectural representation of power over more than three centuries more clearly. But the city is not only a site where power resides in guise of political, military, bureaucratic and economic authority. It is also a testing ground for the critique of power, a site of anarchy, revolution and counter-culture. The rationality of control is constantly confronted with the irrational and the loss of control. The clearly designed perspective literally leads to a “vanishing” point – the fog that is common for the area. The real and the surreal blur into each other. What can we learn from the history and present time of Saint Petersburg? How can we adjust our perspective when we are encountering a set of phenomena that we cannot focus on clearly? How can we work with issues that we don’t see?
NEU "travellog" NEU
# Intro
Die direkte Auseinandersetzung mit Bauten und Kunstwerken vor Ort ist fester Bestandteil der Architekturausbildung an der ETH Zürich. Für die Professur Ursprung bilden die regelmässig stattfindenden Seminarwochen zu verschiedenen Themen und an verschiedenen Orten das Rückgrat der Lehre. Anders als in Vorlesungen und Seminaren ist jedoch – wegen der begrenzten Teilnehmerzahl und der semesterweise wechselnden Themen – die Reichweite der einzelnen Seminarwochen unter den Studierenden sehr beschränkt. Eine vergleichende Sicht von allen Seminarwochen zu verwandten Themen über mehrere Semester hinweg ist oft nicht möglich.
Mit dem Projekt »travellog« will die Professur Ursprung die Grundlage zu einer nachhaltigen Dokumentation der am Departement Architektur durchgeführten Seminarwochen schaffen. Durch die Dokumentation der während der Exkursion entstandenen Text-, Foto-, und Video-Beiträge der Studierenden im online verfügbaren »travellog« soll den während der Seminarwochen behandelten Themen zu mehr Visibilität und Reichweite verholfen werden.
Die Studierenden erhalten als Ausgangsmaterial eine Sammlung von Fotos, Videos und/oder Audio-Dateien sowie einem erläuternden Text zum Thema der Seminarwoche. Ihre Aufgabe ist es, eine persönliche Auswahl aus diesem Material zu treffen und zu begründen. Gleichzeitig sollen sie ihre Auswahl mit eigenen Fotos, Videos und/oder Audio-Dateien ergänzen, die sie während der Exkursion gemacht haben. Durch die Verknüpfung dieser individuellen Beiträge mit der jeweiligen Seminarwoche, die an ein gegebenes Thema und einen gegebenen Ort, sowie an ein bestimmtes Semester und eine bestimmte Professur gebunden ist, entsteht die Möglichkeit, unterschiedliche Sichtweisen auf vergleichbaren Fragestellungen zu dokumentieren und vergleichend zu betrachten.
weitere infos unter Prüfungen
http://travellog.azdev.co/#/
# Impressum
Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, Antragssteller
Thomas Hänsli, Co-Projektleiter (Konzept Website)
Berit Seidel, Co-Projektleiterin (didaktisches Konzept, Redaktion)
Das Projekt «travellog» konnte dank grosszügiger Unterstützung von Innovedum [https://www.ethz.ch/de/die-eth-zuerich/lehre/innovation/innovedum.html] realisiert werden.
IMPORTANT !!!
FOR OUR SEMINARJOURNEY TO ST. PETERSBURG, WE NEED TO APPLY FOR A VISA !!
Therefore we need the following documents from each Student latest until we meet at our colloquium on THURSDAY 18.09.14 /15:30 H :
1) ORIGINAL PASSPORT
Valid until 6 months after return !
2 empty pages (for the Visa sticker)
passport has to be in good condition, no torn pages etc.
2) 1ADDITIONAL UP-TO-DATE PASSPHOTO, FORMAT: 3.5 X 4.5cm IN COLOR, LIGHT BACKGROUND, WITHOUT GLASSES, NO PRINTOUT
please mind that the format is a bit larger than a normal passphoto, therefore you will have to do a separate photo.
3)VISA FORM
Please fill in online the Visa form SHORTLY AFTER September 12 !!!! (otherwise your form disappears from their system) Visa-Antragsformular,
See link: https://visa.kdmid.ru/PetitionChoice.aspx , print it, glue the passphoto in the box, SIGN IT ! and bring it to the chair.
together with all the other documents mentioned
4) TRAVEL INSURANCE COPY
5) FOR NOT CH-CITIZENS: A COPY OF YOUR SWISS RESIDENCE PERMIT
6) FOR CITIZENS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM: PLEASE CONTACT THE CHAIR PHILIP URSPRUNG
sabine.sarwa@gta.arch.ethz.ch
… as well as for all other questions.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR COOPERATION
Alexander Sokurov-Retrospektive im Filmpodium
Manifesta: Kunst unter Druck
The book on early-modernist vs. Stalinist architecture (culture 1 vs. culture two) that I mentioned and that several people asked me about is Vladimir Paperny's Culture Two. This is a review of it by Boris Groys:
Svetlana Boym's Common Places. Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (1995) is a great guide to communal apartments and other aspects of the Soviet everyday written by a native of St. Petersburg who is both an heir to Russian literary and critical tradition and a Harvard professor (in comparative literature as well as the design school).
An article on post-Soviet ruin photography:
"Irony of Fate" (1976) is a Soviet romantic comedy (starring Polish actress Barbara Brylska), which is beloved by Russians and historians of post-war Soviet architecture alike. A man gets drunk in a bania (bath-house) with his friends and is put on a plane to Leningrad instead of his friend. He wakes up in a taxi and believes he is in Moscow because the neighborhood, the apartment block, the name of the street, and even the furniture inside the apartment (the key passed too) are exactly the same as at home. It's a beginning of a love story; the first few minutes are especially worth watching if you are interested in Soviet urbanism. The link leads to part 1; you can find links to subsequent parts on the right.
Die Russische Schweiz" by Mikhail Shishkin is a great way to learn about Russian culture (mostly 19-century) while not moving far away from home. It is written in the form of a guide book to Switzerland, focusing on those places that were visited by famous Russians or otherwise connected to Russian history.
Those of you who've seen the movie trailer at the parallel Manifesta might have noticed singer Viktor Tsoi (and his band Kino) who among others was described as the true agent of political change in the late 1980s. He was a hero of a whole generation (and perhaps still is). Here is some more info on him (of Korean origin, he lived in Leningrad and apparently started as a painting student)
travellog
TEXTE
Bauwelt: St. Petersburg
PROGRAM
Schedule St.Petersburg
Sabine Sarwa
Berit Seidel
Veranstalter: Professur Ursprung
Dozierende: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Zeit: 20.10.2014 - 25.10.2014
Ort: HIL Hönggerberg Rote Hölle
MONDAY, 20 OCTOBER, 2014 TO SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER, 2014
PARTICIPANTS: MAX. 16 STUDENTS
COSTS: CATEGORY D, MAX. CHF 950;- (FLIGHT, HOTEL, ENTRANCE FEES)
INTRODUCTORY MEETING: THURSDAY 18.09.14 /15:30 H /HIL E 7
Saint Petersburg is the very emblem of a city created ex nihilo. Designed in a remote, swampy area as the capital of the Russian Empire in the early 18th century, the city is a product of perspectives and plans, a built image. Nowhere else can we study the architectural representation of power over more than three centuries more clearly. But the city is not only a site where power resides in guise of political, military, bureaucratic and economic authority. It is also a testing ground for the critique of power, a site of anarchy, revolution and counter-culture. The rationality of control is constantly confronted with the irrational and the loss of control. The clearly designed perspective literally leads to a “vanishing” point – the fog that is common for the area. The real and the surreal blur into each other. What can we learn from the history and present time of Saint Petersburg? How can we adjust our perspective when we are encountering a set of phenomena that we cannot focus on clearly? How can we work with issues that we don’t see?
NEU "travellog" NEU
# Intro
Die direkte Auseinandersetzung mit Bauten und Kunstwerken vor Ort ist fester Bestandteil der Architekturausbildung an der ETH Zürich. Für die Professur Ursprung bilden die regelmässig stattfindenden Seminarwochen zu verschiedenen Themen und an verschiedenen Orten das Rückgrat der Lehre. Anders als in Vorlesungen und Seminaren ist jedoch – wegen der begrenzten Teilnehmerzahl und der semesterweise wechselnden Themen – die Reichweite der einzelnen Seminarwochen unter den Studierenden sehr beschränkt. Eine vergleichende Sicht von allen Seminarwochen zu verwandten Themen über mehrere Semester hinweg ist oft nicht möglich.
Mit dem Projekt »travellog« will die Professur Ursprung die Grundlage zu einer nachhaltigen Dokumentation der am Departement Architektur durchgeführten Seminarwochen schaffen. Durch die Dokumentation der während der Exkursion entstandenen Text-, Foto-, und Video-Beiträge der Studierenden im online verfügbaren »travellog« soll den während der Seminarwochen behandelten Themen zu mehr Visibilität und Reichweite verholfen werden.
Die Studierenden erhalten als Ausgangsmaterial eine Sammlung von Fotos, Videos und/oder Audio-Dateien sowie einem erläuternden Text zum Thema der Seminarwoche. Ihre Aufgabe ist es, eine persönliche Auswahl aus diesem Material zu treffen und zu begründen. Gleichzeitig sollen sie ihre Auswahl mit eigenen Fotos, Videos und/oder Audio-Dateien ergänzen, die sie während der Exkursion gemacht haben. Durch die Verknüpfung dieser individuellen Beiträge mit der jeweiligen Seminarwoche, die an ein gegebenes Thema und einen gegebenen Ort, sowie an ein bestimmtes Semester und eine bestimmte Professur gebunden ist, entsteht die Möglichkeit, unterschiedliche Sichtweisen auf vergleichbaren Fragestellungen zu dokumentieren und vergleichend zu betrachten.
weitere infos unter Prüfungen
http://travellog.azdev.co/#/
# Impressum
Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, Antragssteller
Thomas Hänsli, Co-Projektleiter (Konzept Website)
Berit Seidel, Co-Projektleiterin (didaktisches Konzept, Redaktion)
Das Projekt «travellog» konnte dank grosszügiger Unterstützung von Innovedum [https://www.ethz.ch/de/die-eth-zuerich/lehre/innovation/innovedum.html] realisiert werden.
IMPORTANT !!!
FOR OUR SEMINARJOURNEY TO ST. PETERSBURG, WE NEED TO APPLY FOR A VISA !!
Therefore we need the following documents from each Student latest until we meet at our colloquium on THURSDAY 18.09.14 /15:30 H :
1) ORIGINAL PASSPORT
Valid until 6 months after return !
2 empty pages (for the Visa sticker)
passport has to be in good condition, no torn pages etc.
2) 1ADDITIONAL UP-TO-DATE PASSPHOTO, FORMAT: 3.5 X 4.5cm IN COLOR, LIGHT BACKGROUND, WITHOUT GLASSES, NO PRINTOUT
please mind that the format is a bit larger than a normal passphoto, therefore you will have to do a separate photo.
3)VISA FORM
Please fill in online the Visa form SHORTLY AFTER September 12 !!!! (otherwise your form disappears from their system) Visa-Antragsformular,
See link: https://visa.kdmid.ru/PetitionChoice.aspx , print it, glue the passphoto in the box, SIGN IT ! and bring it to the chair.
together with all the other documents mentioned
4) TRAVEL INSURANCE COPY
5) FOR NOT CH-CITIZENS: A COPY OF YOUR SWISS RESIDENCE PERMIT
6) FOR CITIZENS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM: PLEASE CONTACT THE CHAIR PHILIP URSPRUNG
sabine.sarwa@gta.arch.ethz.ch
… as well as for all other questions.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR COOPERATION
Weiterführende Informationen
Alexander Sokurov-Retrospektive im Filmpodium
Manifesta: Kunst unter Druck
The book on early-modernist vs. Stalinist architecture (culture 1 vs. culture two) that I mentioned and that several people asked me about is Vladimir Paperny's Culture Two. This is a review of it by Boris Groys:
Svetlana Boym's Common Places. Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (1995) is a great guide to communal apartments and other aspects of the Soviet everyday written by a native of St. Petersburg who is both an heir to Russian literary and critical tradition and a Harvard professor (in comparative literature as well as the design school).
An article on post-Soviet ruin photography:
"Irony of Fate" (1976) is a Soviet romantic comedy (starring Polish actress Barbara Brylska), which is beloved by Russians and historians of post-war Soviet architecture alike. A man gets drunk in a bania (bath-house) with his friends and is put on a plane to Leningrad instead of his friend. He wakes up in a taxi and believes he is in Moscow because the neighborhood, the apartment block, the name of the street, and even the furniture inside the apartment (the key passed too) are exactly the same as at home. It's a beginning of a love story; the first few minutes are especially worth watching if you are interested in Soviet urbanism. The link leads to part 1; you can find links to subsequent parts on the right.
Die Russische Schweiz" by Mikhail Shishkin is a great way to learn about Russian culture (mostly 19-century) while not moving far away from home. It is written in the form of a guide book to Switzerland, focusing on those places that were visited by famous Russians or otherwise connected to Russian history.
Those of you who've seen the movie trailer at the parallel Manifesta might have noticed singer Viktor Tsoi (and his band Kino) who among others was described as the true agent of political change in the late 1980s. He was a hero of a whole generation (and perhaps still is). Here is some more info on him (of Korean origin, he lived in Leningrad and apparently started as a painting student)
travellog
Download
TEXTE
Bauwelt: St. Petersburg
PROGRAM
Schedule St.Petersburg
Kontakt
Sabine Sarwa
Berit Seidel
