Teodora Arsenijević
DIGITAL ARCHEOLOGY: DIGITAL ARCHIVE, BLOCK 20, NEW BELGRADE
The aim of the course is to construct new or destabilize existing architectural concepts in order to critically consider the role of archiving culture in relation to the “topography” and territoriality of the city. Topography is seen as the aesthetics of city mapping, and the Archive for Cultural Media and Digital Arts program as an infrastructure that defines the architectural territory between archeology and (post)digital culture. The second goal is to thematize the analog-digital, projection-perspective, time-movement relationship, directly in architectural design, to explore the potential of program fluidity, the technology of “other geometries” and the “new” digital in architecture. It is about (de)constructions of methods and techniques, but also the variability of the architectural program. Digital space provides an opportunity to delay disappearance, analogous to the regime of film art and contrary to the regime of theatrical art. Architecture is, paraconsistently speaking, something like film and theater. It is always in the present and is identical to itself, but it does not exist without users. Thus, an architectural project is always placed in the future, which means that it is a matter of change, translation, transformation, or disappearance: there is always a difference in the changed situation. The relationship between time and transformation has always been noted in archival material, which itself assumes designer coding. The course envisages the following research corpus: theoretical consideration of the techniques and logic of production, archiving and presentation of digital content and repercussions that these procedures have in relation to architectural space and program, phenomenological study of space and program, the existence of the architectural project and the reflection of instrumentalization in the architectural project. Overlapping of the analogies of image and projection, montage and collage, perspective and movement, is used as a research procedure by which students build a fund of specific theoretical-philosophical and design knowledge in the field of architecture, and develop critical-polemical thinking in relation to the complexity of creation today. A particular goal of the course is focused on the design research process, which has as its subject the conceptualization and development of a programmatic and conceptual architectural-urban solution for the Digital Archive in block 20 in New Belgrade.