Ways of understanding, expressing and practicing looking at the city
essay in: Monika Grubbauer / Kate Shaw (eds.): Across Theory and Practice: Thinking Through Urban Research. Berlin 2018 Softcover 15 x 22 cm 256 pages, 61 plain ill. English ISBN 978-3-86859-540-6 32.00€ How does theory relate to practice? How should practice inform theory? Scholars all over the world struggle with these questions, particularly in […]
Kolkata Monodosis: Five Takes on Urban Intervention Research
essay in: Sebastian Klotz, Philip V. Bohlman, Lars-Christian Koch (Eds.): Sounding Cities. Auditory Transformations in Berlin, Chicago, and Kolkata. Reihe: KlangKulturStudien/SoundCultureStudies Bd. 9, Münster 2018 304 S., 29.90 EUR, 29.90 CHF, br., ISBN 978-3-643-90555-0 Berlin, Chicago, Kolkata – three modern cities, whose soundscapes are as different as they are similar. Historically and musically, all three cities bear witness to […]
image of a composition
essay that conceptualizes and perspectivises my composition „lichtspiel“ in relation to the film of the same name by László Moholy-Nagy from the year 1930. The work was commissioned by the Deutsche Musikrat on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Bauhuas. The work was performed as a performative installation with the movie by the formidable […]
Spatial Agency
From the University of the Neighbourhoods to Building a Proposition for Future Activities or how urban design mobilizes the performative plan. essay by Bernd Kniess, Anna Richter, Christopher Dell, Dominique Peck in: Michael Koch / Renée Tribble / Yvonne Siegmund / Amelie Rost / Yvonne Werner (Ed.): New Urban Professions – A Journey through Practice and Theory […]
On option improvisation
Why It Is Critical to Conceptualize Improvisation in Architecture and Urban Design. Essay in Michael Koch / Renée Tribble / Yvonne Siegmund / Amelie Rost / Yvonne Werner (Hg.): New Urban Professions – A Journey through Practice and Theory (Changing) Perspectives in Metropolitan Research 5 Softcover 16.5 x 24 cm 312 pages, 70 col. and b/w English ISBN […]
Circular #3
Once again, we are offering insights into our research and teaching programme Urban Design at HafenCity University to the interested public. Our third edition is devoted to our motif of interrogating housing. The annual theme 2018/19 will be concerned with ‘playing house’, the intricate linkages of social policy making and designing oor plans for the […]
Interview TU Wien
Am 28. Mai ist Christopher Dell, Professor für Theorie am Lehrstuhl Urban Design der HafenCity Universität Hamburg, als Gastreferent bei der IPRE Lecture des Instituts für Immobilienwirtschaftliche Forschung der TU Wien. Prof. Dietmar Wiegand hat ihn im Vorfeld um ein Interview gebeten. In der Ankündigung Ihres Vortrags am 28. Mai sprechen Sie davon, dass sich […]
Europe Jazz Media Chart
May 2018 for Oleś Brothers & Christopher Dell «Górecki Ahead» (Audio Cave ACD-005) Paweł Brodowski, Jazz Forum (Poland) comments: This is the trio’s follow up to their previous collaboration „Komeda Ahead”. An inspired re-interpetation of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, one of the greatest Polish composers of contemporary music. Bassist Marcin Oleś and drummer Bartłomiej Oleś are always ready for experiment, […]
Video Deutsche Welle über Hülsmann/Dell Duo
Ein Jazz-Experiment Sie sind renommierte Jazzmusiker: Pianistin Julia Hülsmann und Vibraphonist Christopher Dell. Zusammen haben sie noch nie ein Konzert gegeben. Das Jazzfest Bonn hat sie gemeinsam auf die Bühne geholt. Kann das gelingen? video Sie ist Pianistin, beim renommierten deutschen Jazz-Label ECM unter Vertrag und wurde unter anderem mit ihren lyrischen Gedichtvertonungen […]
DRA Video Jazzfest Bonn 2017
this is a wonderful clip from our concert at Jazzfest Bonn in Mai 2017. Thanks to Peter Materna and all the team of Jazzfest Bonn to have made this possible.