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Philip Ursprung

Name: Philip Ursprung
Uploaded: 2016-11-02T02:57:46+00:00
Duration: 1 min 8 s
Channel: FCL Chatbot
Description: Short excerpt from a November 2, 2016 YouTube interview titled "Philip Ursprung" presenting research that uses 19th-century explorer Franz Junghohn as an…

2 Nov 2016 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a November 2, 2016 YouTube interview titled "Philip Ursprung" presenting research that uses 19th-century explorer Franz Junghohn as an interpretive lens. The speaker explains the project aims to explore alternative modes of architectural travel, how architects perceive and represent findings, and to broaden debates about the city, landscape, and the ambiguous interstitial zone between them.

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The research is about the German Dutch researcher Franz Junghohn, a 19th century explorer who travels to Java and is one of the main cartographers, geologists and botanists of his age. We try to use him as a lens or as a kind of an imaginary guide to find alternative ways, how architects travel, how architects perceive and represent what they find, but also to find alternative concepts which can be useful in the discussion about what is nature and what is the urban. In this particular case, I think it's mainly about issues of how can we expand the discussion about the city? And on the other hand, how can we expand the discussion about the land or the landscape? And the zone which is in between them, is in a way unclear. So you can say that's just one of the topics of the conference.