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 […]
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 in Der Standard, Wien
Was Architektur vom Jazz lernen kann: “Ich will, dass es swingt” mit MAIK NOVOTNY 1. Juli 2018, link zum Artikel
Das Arbeitende Konzert/ The Working Concert (Revision IV-V)
Komposition für ein variables Ensemble Konzert-Performance-Diskussion Im Rahmen des ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITIONS WEEKEND BERLIN Ort: ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin Zeit: 16. + 17. Juni 2018, 15-18 Uhr SEE VIDEO HERE Das Arbeitende Konzert/The Working Concert’ (Revision IV-V) is a discursive format by the composer Christopher Dell. During the concert, internationally acclaimed musicians work together […]
monodosis 1-20 min.
The accumulation book is a new object format that Christopher Dell has developed. It is an open book form, that allows for assembling and reassembling notations, texts, material and so forth. monodosis 1-20 min 2018 brown carboard box 17,9 x 14,8 x 6,3 cm , 20 DVD, 4 textbooklets, content booklet , feltpatch 11,8 x 11,8 x 1 […]
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 […]