AO-Lecture series: Built Order: Storing Knowledge

The architecture of the space around us has a considerable influence on our everyday lives. The starting point for the thematic orientation of the lecture series “Built Order: Storing Knowledge”, taking place during the 2021/22 winter semester, is the observation that architecture configures knowledge spatially and thus plays a significant role in the modulation, enforcement, canonization and institutionalization of epistemic models. Archives, libraries, museums and universities can be understood as materialized orders of knowledge, and the knowledge that is collected, selected, ordered, indexed and mediated in these places is framed spatially. This project will investigate the extent to which concrete architectural framing has an effect on organizational or knowledge structures.This range of topics will be explored in four evening lectures in the 2021/22 winter semester that will focus on real, theoretical, and utopian orders of knowledge and their architectural configuration.

Th 18.11.2021 WOUTER VAN ACKER
»Reformatting the Memory Palace: when everything exists to end in a document«

We 01.12.2021 PHILIPPE VIÉRIN
»Reading Place«

Th 13.01.2022 KIRSTEN WAGNER
»Gebaute Welt- und Wissensordnung. Architekturen der Weltausstellungen im 19. Jahrhundert«

Th 27.01.2022 EVA DOLEZEL
»Objektarchitekturen, Wissenskonstellationen. Der museale Raum der Kunst- und Naturalienkammern in Theorie und Praxis«