Architecture of Performing Events | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Architecture of Performing Events (17.ASMI13)

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Scene Architecture and Technique (Year: 1, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Scenska arhitektura, tehnika i dizajn-scenski dizajn Scenska arhitektura, tehnika i dizajn-scenska arhitektura i tehnika
ECTS	6

Acquiring the highest level of knowledge about historical development, contemporary situation and problem issues of spaces of performing events. Acquiring the ability to apply this knowledge in independent and team creative work.

A deepened and contextualized understanding of the relationship between space and events in the modern world. Successful knowledge of the typology of performing events as well as the spaces in which they take place. Ability of individual and team creative application of acquired knowledge.

Space and event. Concept and definitions of an event. Performing event. Development and types of performing events through history. The concept, types and characteristics of performing events in contemporary society, culture and art. The event as a generator of performing space. Space as a generator of a performing event. Interdependence, interaction and conditionality of the relationship between space and events. The space of events as a physical structure. Persistence and temporary space. Transformations and transformability of space. Space and technology. Space technologies and performance technologies.

Lectures, workshops, practical work.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Fielding, E., McKinnon, P. (ed.)	World Scenography 1990-2005.	2014	Nick Hern Books Ltd, London	English
Joseph, S.	Actor and Architect	1964	Manchester University Press, Oxford	English
Kuburović, B., Zupanac Lotker, S. (ed.)	Shared Space: Music, Weather, Politics	2015	The Arts and Theatre Institute, Prague	English
Batty, M.	The New Science of Cities	2013	The MIT Press, Massachusetts	English
Griffiths, T.	Stagecraft	1982	Phaidon, London	English
Mapelli, E.	Urban Environments AD	2001	Academy Press, New York	English
Lotker, S., Černa, M. (ed.)	Intersection - Intimacy and Spectacle	2011	The Arts and Theatre Institute, Prague	English