Narrative Environments

Narrative Environments

This series of lectures and reading seminars focuses on an exploration of discourses, speech acts, and power relations. In a second step, we critically explore history and the notion of 'universal history', representations of history (historiographies), and power relations. We draw on the work of Focuault and Benjamin to develop a political rather than historical reading of the past in relation to intervening in contemporary environments for alternative futures.

Date

2014-2016

Language

English

Author

Günter Gassner

Keywords

Spatial imaginaries

Spatial practices

Aesthetics

Heritage

Benjamin

© 2026 Günter Gassner
© 2026 Günter Gassner