Spatial Orders

Field Notes, Historiography, Plants, Practices, Spatial Orders

The Transnational and Interdisciplinary Journey of Gärtnerisches Planzeichnen

Villa Parey was built in 1895–1896 as the family house of Paul Parey, founder of the publishing house Paul Parey Verlag. The company was unrivalled in the fields of agriculture, horticulture, forestry as well as plantation technologies, with some publications relating directly to the colonial project of the Kaiserreich. Others had more unexpected effects on landscape history and urban gardening, as in the case of Max Bertram’s Gärtnerisches Planzeichnen (1891) in Meiji Japan.

Jung-Hwa Kim

Architectures, Media Library, Plants, Practices, Spatial Orders

VIDEO: The Forest Cons: Sylvan Reflections within Architectural Imaginaries, by Dan Handel

Architect and curator Dan Handel explores the multifaceted ways in which forests are being conceived, experienced, and transfigured through human imagination, shedding light on how silvan epiphanies may find correspondence in spatial orders and architectural designs. The talk took place on December 13, 2021 as part of the 4A_Lab online seminar series.

4A_Lab

Architectures, Historiography, Media Library, Practices, Spatial Orders

VIDEO: The Last Gift from Beijing: the Jesuit Gardens and the Sino-European Botanical Exchanges, by Lianming Wang

In this 4A_Lab talk, Lianming Wang contextualizes the Beijing Jesuit gardens in the framework of global dynamics of horticultural and hydraulic practice as places of fruitful transcultural encounter and scientific knowledge production. The event took place on July 12, 2021 as part of the 4A_Lab online seminar series.

4A_Lab

Architectures, Media Library, Spatial Orders

The Alps as a Central Periphery? Recordings from a Research Trip along the Brenner Pass

By its very nature, a crossroads is a place you pass through, briskly moving onwards to the final destination of your journey. This podcast, curated by Emily Neumeier, provides a tantalising glimpse into one of Central Europe’s busiest border zones and mountain crossings—the Brenner Pass. A polyvocal account in eight acts based on a research trip of the Max-Planck Research Group “Objects in the Contact Zone – The Cross-Cultural Lives of Things” across Italy and Austria.

Emily Neumeier