Prof. Dr. Christina Thurner
The focus of the planned research project is on public space and the orders inscribed in it, that is on implicit spatial structures and the movement practices evoked by them. These will be made explicit in the project Urban Choreographies as Social Choreographies and examined with regard to their cultural patterns, potentials and problems. The aim is to use exemplary case studies (buildings and urban planning spatial designs) to reveal their choreographic constitution and give them a new perspective. The project begins by differentiating dynamics in and of urban space as choreographies and examining practices that (co-)shape, move and occupy this space. The focus here is on how relationships between urban structures and movement possibilities look in urban ‚everyday life‘, that is in the social/societal context, and how they can be analyzed if they are viewed as choreographies with a focus on dance studies methodology. This also distinguishes the project from empirical surveys on the use or perception of space (such as the Burano-method, tracking or tracing). The research project asks about differences and specifics of perception(s), but also about potentials and challenges, the explication of which should in turn contribute to multi-perspective ideas of a ‚city of the future‘.
